More from the inspections
you already run.
Your technicians are in the machine room every week. MASSCORE turns what they see into a condition score for every machine and a record of every issue, so you can explain your plant and your spending with facts behind you.
No extra visits. No sensors to install. Built for industrial ammonia refrigeration.
Nothing new on the schedule. A lot more out of it.
Your plant already pays for weekly checks, monthly PMs, quarterly service and an annual walk-through. Most of what those visits find ends up in a service ticket or a binder. MASSCORE captures it in a form you can use, during the work that is already happening.
In our 35 years between us, it is the most accurate picture of plant condition we have seen. That is because we turned an inspection into a measurement: every question has five written conditions, every condition carries fixed points, and the same answer scores the same at every plant.
Zach Giles and John Lewis, founders
Built around how a plant actually runs.
One place for the condition of every compressor, condenser, vessel and coil. The same screens on a desktop in the office and a phone in the machine room.
Every machine, drawn the way a technician sees it.
Each machine gets a live drawing. Parts are colored by condition, fans stop turning when they are down, and control valves sit on their lines.
- Problems show where they are, not buried in a report.
- Readings sit beside the machine, graded against normal bands for that equipment.
- Every inspection is on file, with who did it and what changed.
A ledger that never loses an item.
Anything found on a visit opens a finding. It stays open until a person confirms it was fixed, and it is kept forever.
- Seen again, counted once. The record shows how often an issue came back.
- Clears on evidence. When the next inspection reads good, it shows as observed clear.
- Nothing is deleted. Every change is logged with who and when.
Guided questions on a phone
Five written conditions per question. The technician picks the one that matches what they see.
The whole floor at a glance
A floor plan of every room and coil, colored by condition, with the latest room temperatures. Tap a coil to open it.
Down fans cost what they should
A fan that is not running is lost airflow, so it counts right away, scaled by how many fans the unit has.
Every machine in one list
Health and integrity side by side, grouped by system, so the weak spots stand out.
The final layer.
Your control system takes measurements and knows what is on or off. It doesn't know when something is wrong. Your technicians know how the plant looks, sounds and feels. Logs, service tickets and old findings sit somewhere else again. MASSCORE is the final layer that puts the pieces together, so you finally see the whole plant.
Where every piece meets: every machine, every finding, every reading.
In the field
What a person can see, hear, feel or measure
- Technician inspections, weekly to annual
- Plant staff rounds and reports
- Machine logs and readings
- Valves failed, in manual or worked around
Control system
What sensors record, all day
- Temperatures and pressures
- Run status and alarms
- Defrost cycles and setpoints
- Mapped to MASSCORE logs
Scores shown are examples.
It starts with visits you already pay for
No sensors to install. Technicians answer guided questions during the maintenance the plant already has scheduled.
Your control system plugs in
Its points are mapped to MASSCORE's machine logs during setup, so its readings sit beside what was found on the floor, on the same machine.
It watches. It never runs the plant.
Your control system stays in charge of the machines. MASSCORE records condition and keeps every issue until it is fixed.
What the people saw and what the sensors say, on the same drawing.
A sensor doesn't smell ammonia or see oil on a seal. A technician isn't in the machine room at 3 a.m. Put both on the same machine and you get the full picture.
- From the field: a hot gas valve held in manual, fans running, ice on the coil, reported by anyone and confirmed by a technician.
- From the control system: room temperature, suction pressure, defrost cycles and alarms where a limit is set.
- Together: when the control screen says a valve is commanded open and the technician found it held in manual, both facts sit on the drawing, with who saw it and when.
The whole engine room, the same way.
Compressors, vessels, pumps and roof condensers, joined by their discharge, suction and liquid lines and colored by condition. Tap any machine to open its drawing.
One number can't tell you whether to repair or replace.
So every machine gets two. MASS is health: the parts that wear and get replaced. CORE is integrity: what the machine has been through, which a new part doesn't undo.
One compressor, one year.
In July the shaft seal failed and MASS fell. The seal was replaced in August and MASS came straight back. In October the annual review found more corrosion on the housing, so CORE stepped down, and it stays down.
Read together: a well-maintained machine that is starting to show its age. Keep maintaining it, and watch the casing.
A score is only as good as the inspections behind it and the follow-through on what they find. MASSCORE makes both easy, and shows you when either one is slipping.
Every answer is kept as given
Each answer is saved with the question and the value it carried that day. Changing the method later never rewrites history.
Adjustments are shown
Where a plant runs differently by design, the changed limit needs a written reason and an approval, and it shows next to the score.
Condition, not prediction
MASSCORE never claims to know when a machine will fail. It shows condition, early warnings, and what is still open.
The condition layer your platform doesn't have.
Routine maintenance answers feed your mechanical integrity section, scored the same way at every site.
For partners
Zach Giles and John Lewis.
MASSCORE Technologies is its two founders. Every question and weight comes from years in ammonia machine rooms: what fails, what gets deferred, and what happens next.
Meet the founders
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