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Augury
Machine health monitoring sold as a per-machine annual service including sensors, installation and analyst diagnostics
As of 1 September 2026, Augury's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Buys as a flat per-machine annual fee rather than a software licence plus hardware, which removes the usual argument about who pays for sensors but makes the cost scale linearly forever with the number of machines. Softwr lists it under Manufacturing. Augury is made by Augury Inc., available on Web, iOS, Android.
Overview
What Augury does
Augury monitors rotating equipment such as motors, pumps, fans, compressors and gearboxes. Halo sensors mount to the machine and stream vibration, temperature, magnetic and ultrasonic data to Augurys cloud, where machine-learning models plus human vibration analysts produce diagnoses with a named fault and a severity, not just an anomaly score. Findings arrive as work recommendations with an assigned analyst, and can be pushed into a CMMS. The commercially distinguishing thing is the delivery model. Augury sells Diagnostics as a Service: a flat annual fee per monitored machine that bundles the sensors, connectivity, installation, software, updates and unlimited diagnostic reviews. There is no separate sensor purchase order, no per-user software licence and no vibration analyst on your payroll. That solves a real procurement problem, because the usual condition-monitoring business case dies on the hardware capex line. The consequence is that the cost never amortises: a machine monitored for eight years costs eight annual fees, where a self-run vibration programme front-loads hardware and then runs cheap. Who buys it: consumer packaged goods, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, pulp and paper and building-services operators with large fleets of similar rotating assets and no in-house reliability team. The trade-off is coverage. Augury is strong on standard rotating machinery and weak outside it, so the assets that are unusual, low-speed or process-critical in an unusual way often stay outside the programme and still need conventional route-based monitoring.
What people use it for
- A food plant with 200 similar motors and pumps and no vibration analyst on staff
- A multi-site manufacturer that needs one reliability picture across plants without standardising their maintenance teams
- An operator whose capex budget will not approve sensor hardware but whose opex budget will approve a service
- A site trying to move from calendar-based motor overhauls to condition-based intervals with defensible evidence
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Augury.
- The per-machine annual fee never stops, so over a five to eight year horizon the total exceeds buying sensors and software outright and running the programme yourself.
- Coverage is aimed at standard rotating equipment; reciprocating compressors, very low-speed machinery and non-rotating assets are poorly served, so you still need a second monitoring approach.
- Diagnoses depend on Augurys analysts, which means the quality of your programme is set by a vendor queue you do not control and turnaround is not something you can escalate internally.
- The sensors and the analytics are one system, so leaving Augury means removing the hardware and starting again; there is no path to keep the sensors and change the software.
- Pricing is unpublished and negotiated per fleet, so buyers have no benchmark and comparable plants can pay materially different per-machine rates.
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KCF Technologies: Pick KCF if you want to own the sensor network and run the analytics yourself.
Pricing
What Augury costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Machine Health
On request
- Flat annual fee per monitored machine
- Sensors, gateway, connectivity and installation included
- Unlimited users and unlimited diagnostic reviews
- Multi-year contracts with volume tiers, quoted per customer
Capabilities
Features
Halo sensors
Multi-modal vibration, temperature, magnetic and ultrasonic sensing mounted per machine
Diagnostics as a Service
Machine-learning detection reviewed by Augury vibration analysts before a finding is issued
Named fault diagnosis
Findings identify the specific failure mode and severity rather than flagging an anomaly
Process Health
Extends beyond machines to process anomalies on production lines
CMMS integration
Pushes recommendations into maintenance systems so findings become work orders
Installation included
Augury or its partners fit the sensors as part of the service
Fleet views
Portfolio dashboards across sites for reliability and operations leaders
Unlimited users
No per-seat charge on the web application
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Do I buy the sensors?
No. Sensors, gateways, connectivity and installation are included in the per-machine annual fee.
Is there a per-user licence?
No. The web application allows unlimited users; the meter is monitored machines.
Who does the diagnosis?
Machine-learning models flag issues and Augury vibration analysts review them before a finding is released to you.
What happens if we cancel?
The sensors are part of the service and monitoring stops; you do not retain a usable standalone system.
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