Industry Innovator for Over 60 Years

Bently Nevada

Edge to enterprise asset health management 



We believe asset performance drives business performance

At Bently Nevada, a Baker Hughes business, we are innovators, developers, builders, executors, and advisors, answering our customer’s most complex asset management challenges. We recognize that asset performance fundamentally governs the performance of an organization. To deliver safe, sustainable, and profitable operations, businesses depend on actionable information to make timely maintenance and operational decisions.  

Innovating with our clients for the last 60+ years, today our hardware, software, and services, enabled by advanced analytics, help organizations achieve holistic asset health management to protect assets and reduce risk, mitigate unplanned downtime, improve asset availability and life, and optimize the cost of asset care – from the edge to the enterprise.  



Driving innovation and outcomes with our partners and clients worldwide 

Leveraging deep domain expertise and cutting-edge technology from Bently Nevada, ARMS Reliability, and our alliance partner Augury, we operate in more than 50 countries and serve a wide range of clients across heavy industries– from oil and gas to mining, pulp and paper to steel, renewable power generation, chemical processing, among others.  

We are a trusted and proven industrial ally, bringing peace of mind to the world’s infrastructure. We are taking energy forward – making it safer, cleaner, and more efficient for people and the planet.   





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Featured Resource

CONVERGENCE OF CONDITION MONITORING AND ASSET RELIABILITY MAXIMIZES OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE

This complimentary eBook covers:

  • Industries' Complex Relationship with Digitization
  • Challenges in Achieving Digitization of APM
  • Critical Capabilities Offered by Advanced APM Vendors like Bently Nevada
  • Call to Action for Industrial Enterprises Optimizing Digital Transformation Outcomes

 



What we do

A horizontal & industry agnostic solutions provider built on 6 decades of expertise



APM Solutions
Protection and Sensing
Services

As part of Baker Hughes’ Cordant™ Asset Performance Management (APM), our cloud-based APM solution combines health, strategy, and defect elimination capabilities into an integrated environment for a complete and quantified view of asset related risk and cost optimization opportunity.  By leveraging advanced analytics and connected data sets, Cordant APM surfaces insights that enable customers to drive intelligent and insight-led decision making to drive continuous improvement and unlock productivity to achieve the optimal balance of performance, cost, and risk.  

Along with our proven expertise in the asset condition monitoring and protection field, we offer a comprehensive line of machine monitoring systems and asset protection services. With the release of our newest monitoring platform, Orbit 60 series, we are once again demonstrating our commitment to being the world leader in machinery protection and condition monitoring. 

Bently Nevada’s approach to asset performance management starts with our experienced, versatile teams, and their unrivaled mastery of asset performance. Dedicated experts, both on-site and remote, help translate your data into the results you depend on with machinery health services, reliability services, edge device installation and commissioning, and customer skills development programs.  



Proven outcomes that protect and provide peace of mind



Machine Health Success
Someone to watch over machines

Early adopters achieve multimillion dollar savings soon after deploying latest sensor-and-AI-driven asset health monitoring and diagnostics solution.

Gas Processing and LNG
Bently Nevada Remote Services saves ~600 Tons NGL production

The customer has a Bently Nevada Supporting Services Agreement (SSA) in place to support both Machinery Diagnostic Services (MDS)

ARMS LNG Success
Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Producer Saves $135 Million

The LNG company was interested in exploring maintenance strategy optimization as a means to accomplish their business objective.

Reciprocating compressors
NATREF increases reliability of their recip compressors

As a trusted partner, NATREF has always sought domain expertise from Bently Nevada (BN)



An industry leader and technology pioneer since 1961

The early years
Blending vision and technology
For over six decades, Bently Nevada has worked tirelessly to transform how industry safeguards assets and processes
1961
Inspired use of technology
1961

Inspired by the possibilities of eddy-current sensors, Don Bently enters graduate school. He begins developing technology and forms a new business out of his garage in Berkeley, California In 1961, Don relocates the business to Minden with a new name: Bently Nevada

1962
Build it and they will come
1962

Bently Nevada makes its first sale of a condition monitoring system; in the same year, OEMs begin installing proximity probes on machine

1965
A new world of machinery monitoring
1965

Proximitor 3000 goes to market, and is the first mass produced eddy-current vibration sensor, firmly establishing Bently Nevada as an industry pioneer for machinery protection

1967
Moving beyond Minden, Nevada
1967

Launch of standardized 5000 series monitor for machinery protection Expansion of sales force to Houston, Texas

1969
Off to the Netherlands!
1969

First international office opens in the Netherlands

1974
7200 Series...A first of its kind
1974

Introduction of the 7200 series monitors and transducers. The world’s first turbine supervisory instrumentation

1978
Spreading the "gospel" of machinery diagnostics
1978

“Wherever Sales are available, Service will be available.” – Don Bently. The advanced Machinery Diagnostic Services “MDS” team is formed in 1978

1983
Moving beyond just hardware
1983

Launch of Data Manager Software, the original predecessor to System 1

1989
Proof of quality. Proof of trust.
1989

Sale of 1,000,000th transducer

1990
Non-stop innovation
1990

3300 Proximity transducer system is introduced

1994
THE flagship for machinery protection is released
1994

The iconic 3500 asset protection system is introduced

1997
A new sensor system standard
1997

3300XL Proximitor is introduced, setting the industry standard for vibration and machinery protection

1999
Introducing a whole new world for asset understanding
1999

System 1 software is born

2002
Bigger by the day
2002

Bently Nevada becomes a public company as part of General Electric

2009
Enabling better and "greener" energy
2009

Launch of monitoring technology for wind turbines

2011
The best in portables joins the family
2011

Acquisition of CommTest, now part of the SCOUT product family for portable monitoring

2019
Joining Baker Hughes
2019

Bently Nevada is now part of Digital Solutions at Baker Hughes

2021
Orbit 60 becomes a reality
2021

First unit ships: The 5th generation monitoring system, the Orbit 60 Series, is designed for cybersecure asset protection and complete System 1 connectivity Acquisition of ARMS Reliability, a leading global provider of reliability solutions

2022
System 1 in the cloud
2022

System 1 is now cloud-enabled with greater technology capability, positioning Bently Nevada as a leading provider of integrated asset performance management solutions. Baker Hughes forms a Commercial Alliance with Augury, extending machine learning and AI technology to a broader asset library.



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