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Large medical equipment provider

Predictive Maintenance for Autoclave Equipment

Forward Deployed Engineer — Palantir

Built on Palantir Foundry

Flagged machines nearing failure before breakdown

Problem

Autoclave breakdowns are disruptive and costly when they happen without warning — a large medical equipment provider had no way to see a machine trending toward failure before it actually broke down, leaving maintenance purely reactive.

Approach

Built an ML system that analyzed autoclave operating logs and trained a deep learning model to recognize the patterns that precede a breakdown, surfacing proactive alerts on machines heading toward failure instead of waiting for the failure event itself.

Outcome

Gave the maintenance team visibility into machines trending toward failure ahead of time, shifting autoclave upkeep from reactive to proactive.