Augury Announces the Winners of its Inaugural Spotlight Awards, Honors Top Manufacturing Site Teams for Machine Health and Predictive Maintenance Excellence

Augury’s 'Beam of Excellence' award celebrates the top-performing Augury customer sites, chosen from hundreds of facilities for high response rates, IoT serviceability, number of active users, and quantified wins

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Augury, a leading provider of AI solutions that help industrial and manufacturing companies increase their productivity, efficiency, and reliability, today announced the winners of its inaugural Spotlight Awards. The annual awards program recognizes global manufacturing organizations for achieving remarkable results with their Machine Health programs and making a measurable impact on their companies and the manufacturing industry as a whole. For the first edition of these awards, Augury highlights incredible work in maintenance and reliability with the “Beam of Excellence” designation, praising teams that have transformed their work processes and achieved significant value through cost savings, improved collaboration, and other KPIs.

“We’re proud to shine a light on the most advanced and innovative maintenance, reliability, and operations professionals,” said Saar Yoskovitz, co-founder and CEO of Augury. “The most impactful industrial AI use cases come to life on the factory floor, but they succeed only when site teams embrace the cultural transformation AI brings. These teams didn’t just adopt industrial AI; they built their daily operations around it. Their work was crucial, helping their companies reduce downtime, cut costs, and create proactive maintenance practices. This award celebrates their dedication to their organizations and to setting a new standard for advanced manufacturing excellence.”

To select this year’s winners, hundreds of Augury customers’ predictive maintenance programs were evaluated on the following criteria:

• High response rates - Consistent engagement and a quick response to urgent machine health alerts
• IoT serviceability - Thorough maintenance of the site’s technical infrastructure and connectivity
• Number of active users - Strong teamwork and a culture of data-driven decision making
• Quantified wins - A value-oriented mindset

Listed in alphabetical order, the 2024 Spotlight Awards “Beam of Excellence” winners are:

• Amcor
• BAZAN Group
• Canfor – 2 Awards
• Colgate-Palmolive – 3 Awards
• Dairy Farmers of America
• GAF – 2 Awards
• Fortune Brands
• Indorama – 3 Awards
• ICL
• Keurig Dr. Pepper
• Molson Coors
• Nestle Purina PetCare
• PepsiCo – 8 Awards
• Reyes Holdings
• Roseburg
• Toray Industries
• Wis-Pak

Heather Bishop, Senior Manager of Maintenance and Reliability at Wis-Pak, Inc., was honored by the recognition. “Wis-Pak is incredibly proud to see our Mankato facility recognized as part of Augury's Spotlight Awards program,” she said. “Dan Giefer, the Facility Manager at Mankato, and his team have embraced AI and machine health technology to reduce costs and shift the site's culture away from reactive maintenance to a more proactive approach. The Mankato team's leadership, transformation, and impact are propelling our business forward and certainly deserves to be recognized.”

Augury will celebrate the winners of the 2024 Spotlight Awards during a virtual ceremony on Wednesday, November 20, at 11 am ET. Hosted by Ed Ballina and Alvaro Cuba, hosts of the popular Manufacturing Meet Up podcast, the event will also include special remarks from Augury’s co-founders, Saar Yoskovitz and Gal Shaul, reveal key learnings from winners’ success stories, and present a special award to the Beam of Excellence first-place team.

To learn more about the Spotlight Awards and this event, please visit: https://www.augury.com/lp/the-spotlight-awards/

About Augury

A leader in Machine Health and Process Health solutions, Augury uses purpose-built AI technology, trained by industry experts and the world’s largest data library, to help manufacturing and industrial companies eliminate production downtime, improve process efficiency, maximize yield, and reduce waste and emissions. Our global customers achieve 3-10x ROI, often in a matter of months. Together with our customers, we are pioneering Production Health to build a world where the combined work of people and machines makes life better in every way.