Industrial SME · key machine
A machine idle for 18 months, back in service in one day
An industrial SME owns a key machine that has been idle for a year and a half. That machine gates access to a new market. As long as it stays down, the market stays closed.
About this case
A real field intervention, carried out with an integrator partner, with Mimorian used as the modelling and diagnostic tool. Client anonymised. The market estimate is the managing director's, not a Mimorian measurement.
The situation: a key machine, silent, and a closed market
The workshop depends on a machine nobody knows how to restart. The people who knew it have left. What remains: diagrams and paper documents, filed away in a cabinet.
The stakes go beyond maintenance. According to the managing director, this machine opens a market that could multiply revenue by 4. Every month of downtime is a month of market lost.
The blocker: zero usable documentation
No structured history, no digital diagrams, no restart procedure. The classic reflex is to call back the manufacturer or an external expert, with weeks of lead time and knowledge that leaves with them.
The question put to Mimorian: can this machine be understood from what remains, and brought back to life?
The intervention: modelling the machine from nothing
On site, with no prior knowledge of the machine, the equipment is modelled within the day.
Photos and paper diagrams imported
Components are photographed one by one. The paper diagrams are scanned and imported into Mimorian, which decompiles them into a functional graph of the machine: every component identified, connected, documented.
History rebuilt and structured
Traces of past interventions are rebuilt and structured in the tool. The machine gets its memory back: who touched what, where, and why.
Guided diagnostics through to restart
With the functional digital twin as support, the diagnosis works back from symptom to cause. The machine is restarted the very day of the intervention.
The result: the machine runs, and the knowledge stays
The machine idle for 18 months is back in service. Every component can now be identified from a photo, with its history and the steps to bring it back online.
The knowledge captured during the intervention stays in the tool: the next stoppage will not start from zero. It is concrete proof that maintenance secures production capacity.
A machine idle for 18 months. Back in service the same day. Mimorian had never seen this machine, and it knew it better than the documents available on site.
Frequently asked questions
How do you model a machine with no digital documentation?
From what exists: photos of the components, scanned paper diagrams, testimony and traces of past interventions. Mimorian decompiles these elements into a functional graph of the machine, usable for diagnostics from day one.
How long does modelling a piece of equipment take?
On this case, one day on site was enough to model the machine and bring it back into service. The duration depends on the complexity of the equipment and the material available, and a typical pilot starts within a few weeks.
What happens to the knowledge captured after the intervention?
It stays in the tool, structured and reusable: components identifiable from a photo, a searchable history, documented restart steps. Every following intervention enriches that memory.
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