Condition Based Maintenance Software Released for Manufacturing Plants

Stonington, CT, MACSEA Ltd., a global provider of diagnostic and predictive CBM software, has just announced the commercial release of DEXTERTM, version 4.0, targeted at Health Monitoring of Industrial Equipment for the manufacturing industry.

DEXTER automates the process of monitoring, diagnosing and predicting machinery health for any equipment that can be instrumented with sensors. As part of an integrated condition-based maintenance program, this affordable software actively assists in production improvements, maintenance logistics, and real-time fault resolution.

DEXTER is a proven, off-the-shelf technology that has been used worldwide by the U.S. Government for over 10 years. Designed to be a key element in reducing production costs, increasing efficiencies, and assuring equipment uptime, DEXTER provides a measurable benefit for a company’s maintenance activities in any industry. With maintenance costs typically running from 10% to 50% of production costs, there is significant opportunity to reduce these costs with prudent maintenance strategies such as CBM. By automating the CBM process, DEXTER allows companies to implement CBM at minimal expense. “Manufacturing is about maximizing plant output and minimizing waste. And that is central to what DEXTER is all about”, said Martin French, Vice President of Marketing. “It’s about doing the right maintenance for less money. That’s the very essence of what DEXTER does for you.”

Some of DEXTER’s key functions are

• Monitoring and displaying performance of any plant equipment
• Automated diagnostics that the customer builds in
• Accurately predicting equipment failures before process disruption occurs
• Continuous archiving equipment performance histories
• Managing and storing valuable maintenance and operational knowledge

The software can easily be connected to existing control systems and sensors for rapid implementation of equipment health monitoring and predictive analytics in any plant.


The upgrade of MACSEA’s flagship CBM product, DEXTER, brings yet another level of sophistication to a product that is already far in advance of current monitoring technologies. Using the DEXTER software, customers can drill down into equipment fault alerts, rapidly determine causal factors, and make intelligent decisions regarding maintenance scheduling, production economics, and safety issues.

The technology can be seen in action by visiting MACSEA’s website www.macsea.com and downloading a demo. The demo allows a client computer to read real-time simulated engine data off a server on the Internet.

About MACSEA Ltd.

Founded in 1982, MACSEA Ltd. is one of the first companies to offer commercial software specifically focused on machinery and process health assessment. Over a decade of research and another decade of applied experience has resulted in some of the most advanced intelligent technology on the market for real-time machinery diagnostics and prognostics.