
Shell Remote Sense: Keeping your equipment healthy
Shell Remote Sense is a smart lubricant condition monitoring service that combines Shell's lubricant expertise with advanced analytics.
Using machine learning, it produces actionable insights and recommendations that provide tangible value – improving equipment health, lowering maintenance costs, and increasing operational efficiency.
Shell has been using advanced analytics in our own operations for a number of years. Shell Remote Sense is the culmination of our own learnings, building on several years of lubricant analysis to create an industry-wide system that we can now share with our customers.
Good lubricant management is vital for keeping your critical machinery healthy and your operations running smoothly.
61%
of industry staff believe they could reduce maintenance costs¹
45%
of machine defects can be attributed to poor oil condition monitoring²
62%
admit to incidents of incorrect lube oil management leading to unplanned downtime¹
Source: 1.Edelman Intelligence (2015, 2018) / 2.Frost & Sullivan (2018)
Key elements of Shell Remote Sense:
Real time oil condition monitoring
Shell Remote Sense can give you access to the live state of your oil, round the clock
Actionable insights and recommendations
With targeted actions and insights such as Remaining Oil Life, always be on top of your machine’s health
Shell Remote Sense can help you:
Reduce Unplanned Downtime
By delivering actionable insights and recommendations, we can help you to respond quicker to anomalies before failure occurs, reducing unplanned downtime.


Optimise Maintenance
In monitoring your oil condition, we can obtain a view of the health of your asset, which will help you to prioritise which assets need attention.
Extend Equipment Life
Once we have a view of the health of your equipment, we can provide recommendations to help you improve that health, meaning each equipment can run for longer before it needs replacing.


Increase Productivity
By understanding which assets need attention and when, you can improve your utilisation and boost your site’s productivity.
*Shell has been a market leader for over 13 years and draws on this experience as well as using market leading technology which is evaluated by Shell’s in-house technical and research teams.