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Schaeffler OPTIME is a wireless condition monitoring system: battery powered sensors on motors, pumps, fans, gearboxes and compressors measure vibration and temperature, calculate seven KPIs every 4 hours (RMSLow, KurtosisLow, ISOVELOCITY, RMSHigh, KurtosisHigh, DeMod and Temperature) and send a time waveform every 24 hours through a Wirepas mesh network to a gateway and on to the OPTIME cloud. Results appear in the OPTIME Mobile App and OPTIME Dashboard with traffic light severity.
OPTIME 3 covers a vibration bandwidth of 10 Hz to 3 kHz for machines up to 3,000 rpm, such as motors, generators, fans and pillow block bearings, while OPTIME 5 covers 10 Hz to 5 kHz for machines up to 5,000 rpm, such as pumps, geared motors, compressors and HVAC units. Both calculate the same KPIs, run up to 5 years on a fixed battery, and share gateways handling up to 50 devices each.
Yes, Schaeffler OPTIME has the Optime Customer API, a REST API on the Schaeffler API Developer Portal that returns KPIs, raw data, metadata, the list of monitored resources and alarms from the OPTIME cloud, with OAuth2 authentication. Developers register on the portal, subscribe to the API and can request sandbox access from Schaeffler's API onboarding team before integrating. This cloud API is the layer a vendor works with; sensors and gateways are not addressed directly.
Through Makini the vendor reads OPTIME machines with their alarm and KPI state as unified records, for example assets and locations, where the connection exposes them, and matches each monitored machine to the asset record in the customer's CMMS. When OPTIME raises an alarm, the product can show the trend next to work history or, where another connected system and its permissions allow, open a work order there. Data is synced, not streamed.
Because Makini's integration pages show its standard unified model list, while OPTIME itself holds none of those business documents. OPTIME is a sensor and analytics system, so the data that comes from it is machines, measurement points, KPIs and alarms, which Makini can represent as assets and locations, where the connection exposes them. Work orders and purchase orders belong to the CMMS or ERP connected alongside OPTIME, so ask Makini which models the connection populates.
An OPTIME customer needs a Schaeffler API Developer Portal account with a subscription to the Optime Customer API, the OAuth2 credentials it issues, and a decision about which machines the vendor may read. The connection is then made through Makini Link, which keeps those credentials out of the vendor's application. OPTIME is cloud based, so no firewall change is needed, and Schaeffler's sandbox allows testing first. Agree how OPTIME alarms map to CMMS assets.
