Industries served
Wherever a hydraulic valve failing quietly costs more than the valve
CANARY is built for operators running proportional and servo control valves in duty where unplanned failure is disproportionately expensive — because the line stops, because the site is remote, or because availability is contractual.
Manufacturing & automation
A production line is a serial dependency: one proportional valve failing on a clamp or an injection unit stops everything downstream of it. Cycle-time drift is usually the first symptom anyone notices, and by then the valve has been degrading for weeks.
Best fit. Plants running dozens of valves across a line, where unplanned stoppage costs are measured per hour and maintenance windows are already scheduled.
Oil & gas
Equipment runs continuously and sites are often remote, so an unplanned failure means a mobilisation as well as a repair. Valve failures in pipeline service also carry leak and spill exposure well beyond the cost of the component.
Best fit. Continuous-process operators where a short outage runs into millions and where getting a technician to the asset is itself a scheduling problem.
Energy & utilities
Governor and turbine control valves sit on assets with severe availability obligations and penalty regimes. Servo valves in these applications are precision components whose degradation is gradual and, with the right measurements, very legible.
Best fit. Operators with contractual availability targets, where a forced outage is penalised and planned outages are scheduled months ahead.
Forestry, timber & heavy equipment
Heavy duty cycles in high-contamination environments. Silting and spool wear dominate, and the machines often work far from a workshop, so a failure means field repair in poor conditions.
Best fit. Fleets where contamination is a fact of life and where the realistic goal is catching silting and wear early enough to service on return.
Chemical & process
Flow regulation tolerance is often safety-related as well as commercial. Degraded valve performance can move a process off-spec before it fails outright, which makes early condition data valuable twice over.
Best fit. Plants where valve performance drift has product-quality consequences and where any intervention has to be planned around a process window.
Qualifying a site
Is CANARY a fit for your valves?
Good fit
- Hydraulic proportional or servo control valves with on-board electronics
- Standard 12-pin plant-to-valve interface
- 24 VDC supply, valve current draw within 5 A
- Unplanned failure costs materially more than planned repair
- An existing maintenance window the warning can be scheduled into
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- Valves drawing more than 5 A, which need a different connector arrangement
- Large-overlap spools, where the internal leakage measurement does not apply
- Valves that never rest, which limits silt-lock detection
- Non-standard pin assignments or a proprietary valve interface
- Safety-instrumented applications requiring a rated SIL or Performance Level
We would rather disqualify a site early. If your valves fall outside what the current hardware supports, the useful answer is to say so now and tell you what would need to change — not to take a deposit and work it out later. Send us a valve data sheet and we will tell you plainly.
The economics
Why the arithmetic works at fleet scale
$40,000
Typical all-in cost of one unplanned hydraulic valve failure: replacement hardware, emergency callout, expedited freight and lost production.
$800–$1,400
The same repair carried out inside a scheduled maintenance window. Same work, different circumstances, no premium rates and no stopped line.
$2,946
All-in pre-order price per valve. On the figures above, a single prevented failure covers roughly thirteen monitors.
Failure-cost figures are industry composites for the valve classes CANARY targets and will vary by application. Use them as a framework for your own calculation rather than a quotation.