Uptake  

Chicago,  IL 
United States
http://www.uptake.com

• Booth: 941

At Uptake, we believe in creating a world that always works - data access and new technology makes that possible.  We deploy dozens of machine learning models that monitor asset risk in real-time. We do it by leveraging data sources such as vehicle fault data, raw sensor data, historical failure records, and SME knowledge. This can alert users of potential failures before they happen and allow our customers to dynamically optimize maintenance. The result is reduced unplanned downtime, efficiencies in your maintenance process and a lower overall cost to maintain.

 Press Releases

• United Road to Use Uptake for Predictive Maintenance (Jan 31, 2022)

  CHICAGO IL — Today, Uptake announced that United Road has deployed Uptake’s AI-enabled predictive maintenance software across its U.S. fleet. The United Road Family of Companies provides vehicle and heavy-haul transportation services, shipping over 4 million units annually for customers throughout the United States and Canada. Specifically, United Road is using Uptake Fleet to reduce breakdowns, reduce maintenance costs, and ultimately, maximize mileage for its drivers while meeting its commitment to on-time, safe transport of vehicles to its customers.

  The competition for commercial truck drivers is at an all-time high, and United Road is leaning into technology that can help increase operational efficiency, which in turn, is attractive for recruiting and retaining drivers. A shared objective between United Road and Uptake is to keep drivers on the road, optimizing earnings while mitigating the risk of unexpected breakdowns, costly maintenance, and time delays.

  Using vehicles’ existing telematics, fluids, and historial work order data, Uptake Fleet delivers predictive maintenance insights and recommendations before a breakdown occurs. Armed with those insights, United Road is able to make proactive decisions about their fleet that avoid unplanned road calls and minimize downtime — all while increasing the availability, reliability, and performance of its critical assets.

  “United Road is committed to leveraging advanced technologies to not only provide unparalleled and reliable service to our customers while supporting the safety and prosperity of our drivers,” shared Jason Walker, COO of United Road. “We’re confident that bringing Uptake into our technology portfolio will enable us to become more proactive with our maintenance and avoid unforeseen issues with our fleet.”

  During a two-month pilot phase, United Road deployed Uptake across two of its locations seeing a 400 percent return on its investment. The United Road team validated Uptake’s predictive insights, enabling technicians to take action before problems occurred. With United Road deriving value from Uptake Fleet, they have made the decision to apply Uptake to additional locations and trucks.

  “This is a game-changing time for logistics and heavy-trucking companies—being able to leverage the vast amounts of data being collected by today’s commercial vehicles to enable proactive repair will fundamentally alter how companies conduct maintenance, how they attract new drivers, and drive efficiencies to their bottom line, ” noted Braden Pastalaniec, VP of Transportation at Uptake. “We are thrilled to work with a leader like United Road to enhance their maintenance program and optimize their business.”

• PepsiCo Expands Beyond Trial with Uptake (Transport Topics) (Jan 31, 2022)

  Uptake announced that the U.S. beverage and Frito-Lay divisions of PepsiCo have begun using its predictive maintenance software to prevent vehicle issues before they happen.

  Chicago-based Uptake provides industrial artificial intelligence and Internet of Things analytics platforms. The company reported its software can provide the divisions with 138 different insights. For example, Uptake is monitoring fault and signal data from NOx sensors, exhaust gas recirculation and diesel particulate filters, as well as engine coolant temperatures, and batteries and alternators, among others.

  
  At the same time, Uptake said the divisions are tapping into the “vast amount” of existing telematics, fluids, and historical work order data they already have, and turning that information into actionable recommendations that help with maintenance. Uptake noted that during the four-month trial period, it also identified 100 pending cylinder head valve recession issues within Frito-Lay’s 700 compressed natural gas trucks with more than 95% accuracy.

• Uptake launches new Add-In within the Geotab Marketplace (Jan 31, 2022)

  CHICAGO — Today, Uptake announced its Uptake Fleet will be available as an Add-In within the MyGeotab Marketplace. This new integration enables customers to view and use the Uptake product directly from their MyGeotab account without logging into a separate Uptake dashboard. Uptake has been a Marketplace Partner of Geotab’s for the past year, and this new Add-In functionality continues to help simplify the workflow for Uptake and Geotab customers.

  “Uptake is founded on the principle that software must be easy to use. Software must be deployable and valuable immediately, along with providing insights that are outrageously simple to digest and act upon,” shared Braden Pastalaniec, VP of Sales, Transportation and Logistics at Uptake. “Our continued partnership and the Add-In integration with Geotab is in service of our customers maintaining a seamless and simple workflow while still getting all of the information and insights they need to be the best at their job.”

  The latest Geotab integration allows for customers to have all of the functionality of Uptake Fleet, which includes pre-built failure prediction and anomaly detection models which help optimize the daily workflow of fleet operators and reliability managers—right in their MyGeotab dashboard application. SSL (the technology for keeping internet connections secure and safeguarding any sensitive data that is being sent between two systems) enables Uptake to automatically credentialize existing users, and with one click, they can go straight to their Uptake application. And while the Uptake application is now seamlessly integrated within MyGeotab, Uptake users will still have the functionality to receive equipment alerts and notifications by email.

  Uptake has been a Marketplace Partner with Geotab since mid-2019, with the collaboration between companies dating back to early 2018 when Uptake developed its first predictive fleet data science models based on the enriched data coming from Geotab devices. Over the past two years, Uptake has developed more than 200 real-time data science models covering failure modes across seven major vehicle systems.

  Uptake works with fleets ranging in size from 100 trucks to some of the largest fleets in North America, equipping customers with AI-enabled SaaS products to help move from diagnostic and preventive maintenance to predictive maintenance. Leveraging real-time data from sensors and fault codes, along with historical work order data, Uptake leverages the power of AI to help predict failures before they occur. The result: customers experience a reduction in unplanned downtime, the ability to optimize maintenance costs, improvement in efficiency for shop technicians, and higher fleet productivity and uptime.

• Uptake Fleet Recognized by Frost & Sullivan for Growth, Leadership, and Innovation (Jan 31, 2022)

  Frost & Sullivan has recognized Uptake for its 2020 Frost Radar Award for Growth, Leadership, and Innovation in predictive maintenance for medium- to heavy-duty trucking.

  Predictive maintenance helps fleets move beyond time- and use-based maintenance strategies to condition-based intervals that detect issues with vehicles before they result in roadside breakdowns, extended downtime, derates, or expensive replacements. More than 200,000 commercial vehicles are using Uptake Fleet to increase availability and optimize maintenance costs.

  "Uptake Fleet is built around pre-trained predictive models," said Jagadeesh Chandran, Best Practices Research Analyst, Frost & Sullivan. "The solution deploys machine learning-based anomaly detection to analyze and correlate different signals in real time when there are deviations from the normal pattern. This approach makes Uptake future-proof when a new technology or configuration is introduced into the vehicle."

• Uptake and Trimble Power Predictive Fleet Maintenance (Jan 31, 2022)

  Uptake and Trimble Transportation announced today that they are working together to address challenges with fleet management workflows and unplanned downtime.

  With the technician shortage continuing to impede vehicle availability and cost-effective maintenance, repair shops can use all of the support they can get — including from the data and fleet management systems they already have in place.

  Integrations from Uptake Fleet would allow fleet managers and technicians to plan and prioritize repairs on impending vehicle conditions directly in their Trimble TMT Fleet Maintenance interface. That way, on-highway repair shops have a single place to optimize maintenance, improve technician productivity, and enhance vehicle reliability.

  Through an API, Uptake Fleet ingests work order history that fleets have already collected in their TMT Fleet Maintenance software. Users then see component-level survivability curves, data visualizations of high-cost bad actors, and detailed cost breakdowns with filtering by make, model, vehicle, and location.

  Uptake Fleet also ingests work order history from TMT via an API, as well as the telematics, sensor, and fault-code diagnostic data that carriers are already collecting, to serve predictive insights from pre-trained, pre-configured data science models. With the integration, Uptake's predictive insights are now visible as a Work Pending RO in the TMT interface, enabling maintenance teams to see impending vehicle failures in one place and create cases to proactively address them –– before they result in a derate or roadside breakdown.

  The integrations between Uptake and Trimble Transportation are now available directly from Uptake as well as from TMT Connected Maintenance ecosystem of products.

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