News: POLARIS Laboratories® Nominated for Innovation Award at 2024 Mira Awards

POLARIS Laboratories® Nominated for Innovation Award at 2024 Mira Awards

Company recognized for leveraging software to provide predictive analytics

INDIANAPOLIS – POLARIS Laboratories® is honored to be nominated as a finalist for the Conexus Manufacturing Innovation Award, presented at the 2024 TechPoint Mira Awards later this spring.

In an effort to bridge the gap between Indiana’s technology ecosystem and industrial innovators and manufacturers, Conexus Indiana partnered with TechPoint, to present the first-ever award which gives industrial companies an opportunity to showcase innovation, digital transformation and entrepreneurial success stories.

Through a Manufacturing Readiness Grant (MRG) provided by the Indiana Economic Development Corporation and administered by Conexus Indiana, POLARIS Laboratories® invested in proprietary software to provide predictive maintenance and analytics for its manufacturing customers around the globe.

“We are leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence to marry traditional fluid analysis with operational data to build a predictive maintenance model. We are then able to monitor and identify that a component’s real-time operating conditions could lead to maintenance issues, and proactively inform our customer.” – Mark Westlake, Chief Information Officer, POLARIS Laboratories®.

The Conexus Manufacturing Innovation Award winner will be announced during the prestigious Mira Awards ceremony on April 26 at the Old National Centre in Indianapolis where industry leaders and innovators will gather to celebrate nominations for outstanding achievements in Indiana.

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Published February 22, 2024

News: POLARIS Laboratories® Europe Expands Reliability Team

Welcome Jorge Alarcon, Manager of Reliability, to the POLARIS Laboratories® Europe team!

Jorge, a reliability engineer, researcher and consultant with more than 15 years of experience and a passion for predictive maintenance (PdM) and oil condition monitoring (OCM), has helped implement lubrication and oil analysis programs for hundreds of industrial customers around the world.

He holds his master’s degree in Business Administration, a masters in science degree in Predictive Maintenance and Failure Analysis, a masters in science degree in Business Intelligence and Big Data and bachelors in science in Industrial Engineering. In addition to his educational background and technical expertise, Jorge has authored several technical articles in industry publications and has collaborated with doctoral theses in maintenance.

Jorge brings extensive knowledge of the predictive maintenance markets of Europe and the Americas to the POLARIS Laboratories® Europe team. In his role, he will provide full customer technical support focused on improving plant reliability through oil condition monitoring, lubrication best practices and digital transformation strategies.

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Published June 28, 2023

POLARIS Laboratories® Increases STLE Leadership Involvement

POLARIS Laboratories® announces two leaders of the company’s Data Analysis team have been inducted into the STLE Board of Directors, the newly founded Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee (DEIC) and OMA Committee, respectively.

Elaine Hepley, Data Analysis Manager, was inducted into the 2023-2024 STLE Board of Directors during the 77th STLE Annual Meeting and Exhibition held May 21-25, 2023. Elaine has been a member of STLE for 5 years, has held positions as Chair of STLE’s OMA Committee, is paper solicitation chair (PSC) of STLE’s Power Generation Technical Committee and Chair of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee (DEIC). Elaine holds her CLS and OMA I certifications and is an active member of the STLE Lower Ohio River Valley (LORV) Section.

“Teamwork makes the dream work, there is no life without challenges and there is no success without failure in between. The best investment anyone can make is in themselves,” says Hepley on her recent induction into the STLE Board of Directors.

Brandon Van Horn, Data Analysis Supervisor, has been named member of STLE’s OMA Committee and will serve as Vice-Chair. Brandon has held his CLS and OMA I certifications and STLE certifications for 5 years.

 

With their extensive industry backgrounds and involvement in the STLE organization, Elaine and Brandon understand the significance of STLE’s education efforts for their members. They bring their education, experiences and learnings to both STLE’s members and POLARIS Laboratories® teams, nationally and locally.

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POLARIS Laboratories® Expands Suite of Integrated Partners

POLARIS Laboratories® is excited to announce the expansion of our suite of integration partnerships. The company has worked with several Integrated Partners to develop API (Application Programming Interface) connections to seamlessly connect HORIZON®, POLARIS Laboratories’ data management system, to maintenance systems, reliability service providers and original equipment manufacturers. We call this integration solution DataConnect.

Integrating sample analysis data and recommendations allows customers to see their sample results, submit samples and create maintenance actions and work orders within the platform of their choosing. Thus, allowing a ‘single view’ platform to monitor the health and reliability of equipment.

Included in these expanded partnerships:

CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) and ERP Systems (Enterprise Resource Planning)

  • Total Resource Management, providing integration with IBM Maximo Enterprise Asset Management
  • Asset Management Solutions, providing integration with JD Edwards
  • ProExcellence, integration with SAP
  • Cohesive, providing integration with IBM Maximo Enterprise Asset Management
  • Fluke, providing integration with eMaint Enterprise Asset Management
  • UpKeep, Asset Operations Management
  • Fiix, Maintenance Software
  • DINGO, Predictive Maintenance Software
  • Tango, Reliability Information Management

Reliability Service Providers

  • IJSSEL, Predictive Maintenance Solutions
  • Allied Reliability, Asset Management Solutions
  • AVT, Predictive Maintenance and Reliability
  • I-care Reliability, Predictive Maintenance Solutions

OEM’s

  • Hitachi / ConSite, Hitachi Construction Machinery Corporation

Our list of Integrated Partners continues to grow. Whether you perform the integration of fluid analysis data on your own, work with your primary maintenance management platform or work with one of our integrated partners, POLARIS Laboratories® has the solution to your data challenges. Want to join the list of integrated partners? Contact rclark@polarislabs.com.

POLARIS Laboratories® Donates to Local Community

During this holiday season, POLARIS Laboratories® raised $2,000 to benefit Gleaners Food Bank, a local food bank in Indianapolis, to support the community and help those in need. Employees of all laboratory locations were invited to donate throughout the month of December, beginning on Giving Tuesday. The company’s donation will provide meals for more than 9,000 local Indiana families during the holiday season and beyond.

Gleaners Food Bank has been serving 21 counties across central and southern Indiana since 1980 and is the state’s largest food pantry.

2022 Fluid Analysis Program Champion Awards

POLARIS Laboratories® Announces Donation to 22Zero in Support of Veterans

POLARIS Laboratories® Announces Donation to 22Zero in Support of Veterans

POLARIS Laboratories® announces donation of $7,500 to 22Zero Healing the Hero, an organization dedicated to providing support, assistance, treatment and other resources to healing military veterans.

As a veteran-owned business, POLARIS Laboratories® takes great honor in making this donation to 22Zero to assist in support efforts for United States veterans navigate life after military service.

“As a 30-year veteran myself, I know too well the challenges of PTSD and suicide in the veteran community,” said Bryan Debshaw, CEO of POLARIS Laboratories®. “POLARIS is honored to be able to support the efforts of 22Zero to in restoring lives and providing purpose. POLARIS Laboratories® is committed to providing opportunities for veterans to grow and succeed.”

In addition to the donation, POLARIS Laboratories® sponsored the Veterans Connect Stream and Job Fair at Mobius Institute’s CMB+Reliability Connect Live Conference which took place September 13-15, 2022 in Indianapolis. The Veterans Connect portion of the conference provided veteran conference attendees with dedicated learning sessions, resources and assistance with navigating their maintenance and reliability careers.

 

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Data Analysis Manager Named STLE OMA Committee Chair

Elaine Hepley, Data Analysis Manager, was recently inducted as a Chair of the STLE OMA Committee.  As Data Analysis Manager, Elaine manages POLARIS Laboratories’ team of certified data analysts and is dedicated to ensuring the team provides customers with the ART to fluid analysis- Accurate, Reliable and Timely. She provides data analysis and interpretation support and works diligently to find solutions to better manage fluid analysis programs. Elaine is passionate about Varnish testing and analysis and is the in-house expert when it comes to Varnish contamination, test methods to identify it and ways to mitigate it from systems.

Elaine has been with POLARIS Laboratories® for 13 years and is OMA and CLS certified through STLE.

“I am extremely honored and humbled by this opportunity and thankful to be working alongside an amazing group of colleagues who have so much knowledge and insight I can learn from. I look forward to what this next year brings for the OMA committee and its members.”

Congratulations, Elaine!