Independent Industry Research
Tractian commissioned Verdantix to run the numbers and survey the market. The result: a verified ROI model and a clear-eyed look at where condition monitoring is working, where it stalls, and what separates the two.
$5.14M
3-year benefits
401%
3-year ROI
$5.14M
3-year benefits
$3.3M
net present value
401%
3-year ROI
8 mo
break-even point
Why we commissioned this
We asked Verdantix, an independent industrial research firm, to do two things: build a verified financial model of what Tractian returns, and survey the wider market on the state of condition monitoring. They interviewed our customers, modeled the costs and the savings, and surveyed 60 maintenance and operations leaders across the US and Latin America.
The result is two reports built for the people who make the call: hand them to finance or a plant director and the analysis holds up on its own.
Verdantix is an independent research and advisory firm with 15+ years covering industrial and operational technology. Through its research, data, and advisory work, it analyzes the technologies reshaping industrial operations and the returns they deliver, independent of the vendors building them.
Download the research
1. ROI Research
Verdantix built a financial model for a mid-sized manufacturer ($200M in revenue, 500 employees, 12 sites), then validated it through interviews with five Tractian customers. The model maps every cost and every saving: downtime, overtime, maintenance budget, asset life, safety, compliance.
The result for that model manufacturer: 401% ROI over three years, an 8-month break-even, and roughly $1.4M saved per year, with savings starting in year one.
2. Industry Voice Research
Verdantix surveyed 60 maintenance, operations and reliability leaders across the US and Latin America, all at firms above $250M in revenue. The picture: investment is climbing fast, but the gap between detecting a problem and acting on it is where the value leaks out.
98% of organizations expect to increase condition monitoring investment through 2026. Yet 80% say translating alerts into maintenance action is a significant challenge, and 82% point to integration gaps with their CMMS or EAM systems. The hardware caught up. The workflow didn’t.
1. ROI Research
Verdantix built a financial model for a mid-sized manufacturer ($200M in revenue, 500 employees, 12 sites), then validated it through interviews with five Tractian customers. The model maps every cost and every saving: downtime, overtime, maintenance budget, asset life, safety, compliance.
The result for that model manufacturer: 401% ROI over three years, an 8-month break-even, and roughly $1.4M saved per year, with savings starting in year one.
2. Industry Voice Research
Verdantix surveyed 60 maintenance, operations and reliability leaders across the US and Latin America, all at firms above $250M in revenue. The picture: investment is climbing fast, but the gap between detecting a problem and acting on it is where the value leaks out.
98% of organizations expect to increase condition monitoring investment through 2026. Yet 80% say translating alerts into maintenance action is a significant challenge, and 82% point to integration gaps with their CMMS or EAM systems. The hardware caught up. The workflow didn’t.
Both reports, one form. Free to download.
• JULY 30
Join us and the Verdantix team for a live walkthrough of the findings: what the data shows, and what it means for your operation.
Customer proof
A few days after install, the system identified a bearing issue on a compressor that was likely only days away from another catastrophic failure.
Associate Director of Engineering & Maintenance
Food & Beverage Manufacturing
One of our most experienced electrical technicians originally said the system would never generate value. The first major save was a motor worth approximately $230,000 that would have stopped the entire plant. After that, he became one of the biggest supporters of the system.
General Manager
Food & Beverage Manufacturing
We replaced monthly manual vibration collection rounds across 750 monitoring points with continuous monitoring, which gives the team much more time to react and plan before breakdowns occur.
Maintenance Engineer
Automotive Manufacturing
Tractian
Tractian is the Industrial AI platform that turns asset health data into operational intelligence. Wireless sensors mounted on your machines read vibration, ultrasound, temperature and magnetic field data; the AI flags developing failures before they stop production; and it all lands in the workflow your team already uses, with no rip-and-replace or dedicated IT infrastructure.
That’s the gap the market survey describes: detection that actually reaches action. It’s what the ROI study put a number on. See what it would look like on your assets.
