Your Machines Have a Heartbeat: Here's What It's Telling You

Podcast: Lights Out: Technology and Automation Podcast by MakingChips · Nick Goellner

Opublikowano: 2026-08-28

What if the most powerful sensor on your shop floor isn't a camera or a probe or a vibration puck—but a power cord? That's the premise Lauren Dunford, co-founder and CEO of Guidewheel, brought to the show, and she explained it using a hundred toasters. Guidewheel clips a current transformer around the cord and reads the electrical heartbeat of a machine. No PLC integration, no open heart surgery, no waiting on a controller vendor. From those tiny fluctuations the platform gets run, idle, and down, then cycle counts, cycle times, early maintenance warnings, and in a lo...