Industries · Pumps & valves
Machine monitoring for pump and valve manufacturers
Pump and valve machining runs on mixed fleets — new machining centers beside decades-old turning centers, all fed by castings of varying quality. ThingConnect puts the whole floor on one screen and tells you where the hours actually go, machine by machine.
What pump & valve floors deal with
- Casings, impellers, and bodies queue for the same few machines while other machines sit idle — and nobody sees it until delivery slips.
- Casting defects discovered mid-cycle turn into unexplained downtime and scrap that never gets attributed to its real cause.
- Job-work margins are quoted on assumed machine-hour rates that nobody has ever measured.
- Old and new machines live on the same floor, and the monitoring options that exist only cover the new ones.
How ThingConnect does it
One screen for a mixed fleet
Old and new machines, every brand and age, on one factory overview — including the machines OEM-bundled monitoring ignores.
Casting-fed reality captured
Reject reasons that distinguish casting defects from machining problems, so the scrap conversation with your foundry has data behind it.
Machine-hour truth for quoting
Measured utilization and true cycle times per part family — the difference between quoting on assumptions and quoting on facts.
Common questions
Our machines range from brand new to 20 years old — can you monitor all of them?
That's the normal case in pump and valve shops, and it's exactly what the site survey establishes: we confirm connectivity machine-by-machine before you commit, so there are no surprises after.
Can it track rejects caused by casting defects separately?
Yes — reject reasons are configured to your vocabulary, so casting porosity discovered during machining is recorded distinctly from tool or setting problems. Over a month you get a defensible picture of what casting quality actually costs you.
We do job work with tight margins — what's the payback logic?
Job-work margins live and die on machine-hour utilization. Most shops that measure honestly for the first time find 20–30% of available hours going somewhere unexpected — the utilization report shows where, and even recovering a fraction of it pays for the system many times over.
See it on machines like yours
A 30-minute demo, then a pilot on your own floor if it fits.