Predict Australia

Predict is an Australian team of reliability engineers and data scientists that has developed an approach for measuring the health of slurry pumps to improve maintenance decisions over more than five years. The company built the Predict platform to collect, clean and analyse available data to enable data-driven maintenance decisions for slurry pumps. Predict describes itself as engineers first, not just a software vendor, working alongside reliability teams to put changes into practice and support them through implementation rather than handing over a report.

The Predict platform reads process and maintenance data the site already records, plus wear photos taken at the pump, with no new sensors required. It analyses pump health from three inputs: every wear part against its own limit, AI assessment of inspection photos, and calculated pump efficiency. The platform provides one clear recommendation for each pump based on the part nearest its limit and the date it reaches it, with recommendations to bring forward, hold or extend inspections. Predict works with sites to action each recommendation in their maintenance system with hands-on support.

One site using Predict across 30 pumps in one year achieved approximately $1 million saved from the maintenance budget, approximately 500 hours of labour time saved, and approximately 20% fewer pump failures.