The Company
Built by someone who watched plants run reactive.
Gearcadence started in Detroit because that's where the machines are.
Lukas spent six years as a mechanical engineer at Axeltron Manufacturing, a Tier-2 automotive supplier in the Detroit metro. His job: keep the stamping and machining lines running. His recurring problem: the data from the machines was all there — vibration sensors, thermocouple arrays, motor drives — and none of it was being analyzed for early failure. Everything was reactive.
He saw the same pattern across suppliers in Southeast Michigan: sensor hardware existed, Modbus TCP networks existed, OPC-UA historians sometimes existed — but nobody had built the software layer that turned raw machine data into a ranked maintenance action. He started Gearcadence in 2023 to close that gap. The scope is intentionally narrow: discrete manufacturing, rotating and reciprocating machinery, condition monitoring that produces a work order — not a CMMS replacement, not an ERP module, not a generic IIoT platform stretched to fit a manufacturing use case.
Three engineers. Detroit.
The team
Mechanical engineer, ex-Axeltron Manufacturing. Six years running stamping and CNC lines before founding Gearcadence.
Time-series anomaly detection specialist. Spent four years building vibration and thermal analytics at a process controls company — frequency-domain decomposition, envelope analysis, bearing defect signature libraries.
Full-stack industrial software background. Built OPC-UA and Modbus TCP integration middleware at a plant automation firm before joining Gearcadence to own the data pipeline layer.
Working principles
How we work
We validate everything on real equipment with real maintenance teams. No lab data, no analyst handwaving.
Gearcadence is bootstrapped. No VC terms, no pressure to pivot toward a feature set that works for investors but not for plant engineers.
We work hard to not send false alerts. An alarm that cried wolf 10 times gets ignored on the 11th — the one that matters.
Talk to Lukas about your plant.
Engineering questions get engineering answers. Not a sales deck.