Fire Prevention + Predictive Maintenance
One heat signal. Two teams that need it early.
Abnormal heat is a fire precursor and a maintenance signal. AVIAN gives safety and reliability teams the same continuous thermal view so they can prevent ignition, protect production, and turn urgent failures into planned work.
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paying customers lost in three years, with deployments protecting more than 50 facilities across 9 countries.
Why teams miss the connection
Fire risk and equipment failure often start in the same place
A hot bearing, rubbing belt, overloaded motor, loose connection, or dust-system heat event is not only a maintenance issue. In combustible, remote, or hard-to-watch areas, that same heat can become the first stage of a fire.
Safety teams often see the fire consequence, while maintenance owns the failing asset.
Maintenance inspections can miss events that develop between routes or after hours.
Traditional fire detection often waits for smoke, flame, or sprinkler activation.
A shared thermal record helps both teams agree on what happened and what should change.
Dual-use monitoring
The same thermal layer supports prevention and reliability
AVIAN is not a separate system for every department. It gives the plant a shared early signal that can drive safety response, maintenance planning, and post-event review.
Fire prevention
Catch abnormal heat before smoke or flame appears, especially around combustible material, dust systems, conveyors, panels, and battery areas.
Maintenance planning
Use thermal trends to inspect equipment, schedule repairs, correct recurring friction, and avoid emergency changeouts.
Event history
Review what triggered, who acknowledged it, how the temperature changed, and what action was taken after the alarm.
Shared workflow
Turn a heat event into the right operational decision
A useful system does not force every heat event into the same bucket. AVIAN helps teams decide whether the response is safety escalation, equipment stop, maintenance inspection, or scheduled repair.
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Detect heat early
AVIAN watches the asset or risk zone continuously and flags abnormal heat before obvious failure.
Classify
Understand the risk
Thermal and RGB context helps teams see whether the heat is material, mechanical, electrical, or process-related.
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Route to the owner
The event reaches safety, operations, maintenance, or on-call staff based on severity and site workflow.
Improve
Prevent the repeat
Reports and event history support better thresholds, repairs, housekeeping, and maintenance planning.
Where it applies
Built around the assets where heat changes the outcome
Sawmills and planer mills
Where planer heat, bearings, conveyors, and dust systems can create both downtime and fire risk.
Biomass and pellet plants
Where press friction, drive heat, conveyors, and combustible dust make early thermal trends valuable.
Grain and feed mills
Where hot bearings, elevator friction, and dust-prone process zones need continuous coverage.
Mining conveyors
Where remote idlers, drives, and transfer stations can fail long before someone reaches them.
Proof from operators
The value shows up when heat is caught early enough to matter
AVIAN's strongest customer stories tie the safety outcome and maintenance outcome together: earlier warning, clearer response, and fewer surprises.
Every planer mill should have an AVIAN system
Charles Ingram Lumber's testimonial reflects the buyer intent behind dual-use monitoring: a practical system for mills where fire prevention and production uptime are tied together.
Jim Anderson, Charles Ingram Lumber
Read moreThanks to the alerts from AVIAN, we changed the oil in the gearbox
Chinook Wood Products caught an overheating gearbox in a dust shed and brought it back under normal operating conditions.
Peter Rempel, Chinook Wood Products
Read moreSchilliger Holz's early deployment shaped AVIAN around fire risk in the places people cannot watch continuously.
Schilliger Holz
Read moreFAQ
Questions teams ask before they deploy AVIAN
Is this condition-based monitoring or predictive maintenance?
AVIAN is a condition-based monitoring layer that supports predictive maintenance. It measures asset condition continuously through heat, then helps teams decide when inspection, cleaning, adjustment, or repair should happen.
Does AVIAN replace vibration monitoring?
No. Vibration is useful for many rotating assets. Thermal monitoring sees a different signal: friction, electrical resistance, retained heat, material heat, and process drift. Many sites use both because heat is often the signal that connects maintenance risk to fire risk.
Does AVIAN replace fire detection?
No. AVIAN complements smoke, flame, sprinkler, and fire alarm systems by watching an earlier stage of the event timeline. It helps teams respond before the issue becomes visible fire or a code-required alarm event.
Who owns AVIAN alerts: safety or maintenance?
Usually both. Safety teams care because abnormal heat can become ignition. Maintenance teams care because the same heat can indicate a bearing, motor, belt, panel, or drive problem that should be fixed before failure.
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