Multiped for technicians: from retrospective troubleshooting to real-time analysis

If you’re a technician, mechanic, maintenance or service engineer, or commissioning engineer on board, you know this all too well: when something goes wrong, you need to find the cause, and fast. But how often have you had to search through different systems, export data from separate devices, and try to match up timelines?

“Did that vibration spike happen at the same time as that temperature rise?” or “When exactly did that pump start acting strange?”

Traditional data loggers often only give you part of the story, and only after the fact. But what if you could see everything in real time and immediately connect the dots? Monitor everything live. Something goes wrong? You simply select your analysis parameters and look back instantly, because all the data is stored in Multiped. We no longer think it might have been this or that, we know what it was. Supported by powerful, lightning‑fast dashboards, calculations, and reports that you build yourself. That’s what we call today’s issue management.

Real‑time troubleshooting with Multiped: all the puzzle pieces at once

With Multiped you get this powerful combination: all data from different systems in one overview. Where you previously needed three different programs and had to synchronize data manually, you now see everything at the same time. Real‑time and historical.

An example: an alarm goes off on the ballast pump. The cause turns out to be a power dip. Instead of first checking the pump data, then the generator logs, and only later realizing that the crane caused a dip, you see it immediately. Right at that moment, the crane was lifting a heavy load. A high power demand.

And wait, that’s strange, isn’t that supposed to be protected? You dive deeper into the historical data and discover several near misses in the past two weeks. You add one more signal: the Power Management System (PMS) protection status for the crane. The data clearly shows it had been disabled for three weeks. Oops… forgotten after maintenance. You’ve found the cause in seconds instead of hours.

Issue management: from guessing to knowing

Once you have all the data together, you can immediately create a dashboard for your problem analysis. That lets you look back in history and continue live monitoring.
Had the same problem four months ago? Now you’ll see it immediately. No more guessing, just knowing.

It’s very straightforward. Build your analysis once, take action, and you can trust that in the future the dashboard will be ready again for monitoring and analysis.

All signals, all speeds: from 1 Hz to 1000 Hz, visible and real time

As a technician, you know that different problems need different measurement speeds.
Temperature? That can be slow. Vibrations or pressure spikes? That must be very fast.
With Multiped you don’t have to choose.

In practice? Multiped logs everything from 1 up to 1000 measurements per second. Manual input by crew? Check. At the same time. That strange vibration in the engine or sudden pressure spike? You see it in detail, together with the oil temperature, load, tank level, what the ship was doing, and where in the world they were at that exact moment. All context in one picture.

Understandably, you might hesitate

“Another data logger?” you might think. That’s understandable. You already have enough devices installed.
But here’s the strength: Multiped does not replace your existing systems, it brings them together.
All brands, all protocols, one dashboard.

No more walking around with USB sticks or waiting until data is available offline.
Everything is real time, everything is local, everything works without an internet connection. Perfect for maritime environments, offshore, or any place where an internet connection is not possible or not desired.

Practical benefits for your daily work

• Faster diagnosis
  Historical data from all systems at once, synchronized to the millisecond.
• See connections
  That generator dip at the same time as crane operation? Now you see it instantly.
• Act proactively
  Spot trends before they turn into problems, not afterward.
• Support warranty claims
  Prove exactly what happened and when, with data.
• Issue dashboards
  Analyze and continuously monitor issues.

From reactive to predictive maintenance

Some large-scale companies already have extensive monitoring, but even they often lack the combination of high‑frequency data with operational context. Multiped gives you both.

As one technician put it:
“The big difference? I no longer have to guess what’s wrong. Once I’ve analyzed a problem and taken the right action, I know that next time will be different. I see exactly what happened, understand why, and can immediately take the right steps in the future. That gives so much more confidence in your work.”

Looking for tools that make troubleshooting faster?

Multiped brings all your data together, right where you need it.

Joël Smit
Product Owner

Want to learn more? Contact the Multiped team via support@Multiped.nl or +31 (0)184 611 555.