Manufacturing and industrial IoT data
Fifteen years of machine logs and maintenance records could fund your next production line.
Manufacturers, process plants and industrial service companies hold years of PLC and SCADA logs, maintenance and work order histories, quality inspection images and standard operating procedures that AI developers need. We handle de-identification, trade secret scoping, buyer vetting and contracts alongside your counsel. You keep ownership and approve every use.
Who fits
- Discrete and process manufacturers with instrumented plants
- Contract manufacturers and machine shops
- Industrial equipment OEMs and field service organizations
- Food, chemical and materials processors
Get a data valuation
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Most valuable data types
What buyers want from manufacturing companies.
Industrial AI needs long time-series histories paired with maintenance outcomes, and those exist only inside plants that have run instrumented equipment for years. Developers of predictive maintenance, quality inspection and process optimization tools cannot simulate fifteen years of real wear, failures and fixes, so they pay for it.
Machine sensor logs paired with failures and downtime
Vibration, temperature, pressure and PLC data across many assets, linked to what failed and when, is the foundation of predictive maintenance models and is almost never public.
About sensor and machine logsMaintenance work orders and CMMS histories
Technician notes, parts used and repair times connect the sensor data to outcomes, which multiplies the value of both.
About transactions and operationsQuality inspection images with pass and fail labels
Photos and line camera frames of defects, labeled by inspectors, are exactly the data industrial vision models need and rarely leave the plant.
About images and videoSOPs, work instructions and equipment manuals
Long, precise procedural documents teach models to read and reason about industrial processes and safety steps.
About documents and knowledge basesRoot cause analyses and engineering change records
Written investigations of failures and the changes that followed capture engineering judgment that cannot be scraped from anywhere.
About expert annotations and workflowsField service tickets and warranty claims
Customer-reported symptoms, diagnoses and fixes for installed equipment train service and troubleshooting assistants.
About support tickets and chats
Illustrative scenario
A 1,200-person manufacturer with three plants
15 years of machine sensor logs across 900 instrumented assets, 2 million maintenance work orders, and 6 million labeled inspection images
$400K to $2.5M
Illustrative estimates based on public benchmarks and our valuation model. Actual value depends on uniqueness, quality, rights and buyer demand. How we estimate
What drives the range
- Long histories across many assets
- Sensor data paired with maintenance outcomes
- Trade secret scoping removes some process parameters
Compliance
Trade secrets, export controls and supplier NDAs handled with your counsel
Process recipes, tolerances and anything you consider a trade secret are scoped out or generalized before any sample is shared, and the exclusions are written into the contract. Export control classification is reviewed with your counsel where products or technical data may fall under EAR or ITAR, and supplier and customer NDAs are checked for restrictions on derived data. Employee identifiers in maintenance and inspection records are de-identified, and buyers are contractually barred from re-identification attempts.
Standards in play
- Trade secret scoping and exclusions
- EAR and ITAR review where relevant
- Supplier and customer NDA review
- Employee data de-identification
FAQ
Manufacturing questions
Won't sensor data reveal our process secrets?
It can, which is why scoping comes first. Setpoints, recipes and parameters you designate as proprietary are removed or generalized, asset identifiers are abstracted, and your engineers approve the sample before anyone outside sees it.
Our equipment OEM says it owns the machine data.
Some OEM and software agreements claim rights in telemetry or derived data, and some do not. The rights review covers those contracts with your counsel before valuation is finalized, and the deal is scoped to what you clearly hold.
We make parts for defense and aerospace customers. Can we participate?
Possibly, with care. Technical data subject to ITAR or EAR controls is excluded unless your counsel and export compliance officer clear it, and customer contracts with flow-down restrictions are honored. Many plants have non-controlled lines whose data qualifies.
Find out what your manufacturing data is worth.
Ten minutes, no files, NDA on request. We reply within one business day.