Bently Nevada
Edge to enterprise asset health management
We believe asset performance drives business performance
Baker Hughes helps customers unlock the full value of their assets through digitally enabled hardware, software, and services from its Bently Nevada™ portfolio—part of the Cordant™ suite of AI-enabled industrial solutions. Backed by nearly 70 years of innovation, these offerings combine deep domain expertise with advanced analytics to help solve some of the world’s most complex asset management challenges.
Asset performance fundamentally governs organizational performance. To achieve safe, sustainable, and profitable operations, businesses rely on actionable insights to make timely maintenance and operational decisions.
For more than six decades, Baker Hughes has collaborated with customers to advance asset intelligence. Today, its integrated hardware, software, and services support holistic asset health management—protecting critical equipment, reducing risk, minimizing unplanned downtime, improving availability and asset life, and optimizing the total cost of care from the edge to the enterprise.
Driving innovation and outcomes with customers and partners worldwide
Through Baker Hughes’ combined expertise—including its Bently Nevada portfolio, and alliance partner Augury—the company operates in more than 50 countries, serving industries such as oil and gas, mining, pulp and paper, steel, renewable power, and chemical processing.
Baker Hughes is a trusted industrial partner, bringing confidence to the world’s infrastructure and advancing energy to be safer, cleaner, and more efficient for people and the planet.
Convergence of condition monitoring and asset reliability maximizes operational performance
This complimentary eBook covers:
- Industries' Complex Relationship with Digitization
- Challenges in Achieving Digitization of APM
- Critical Capabilities Offered by Advanced APM Vendors like Bently Nevada
- Call to Action for Industrial Enterprises Optimizing Digital Transformation Outcomes
A horizontal & industry agnostic solutions provider built on 6 decades of expertise
As part of Baker Hughes’ Cordant™ Asset Performance Management (APM) suite, our cloud-based platform unifies asset health, maintenance strategy, and defect elimination in a single integrated environment. It delivers a comprehensive, quantified view of asset risk and cost optimization opportunities. By harnessing advanced analytics and connected data, Cordant™ APM reveals actionable insights that empower smarter, data-driven decisions—helping organizations continuously improve performance, increase productivity, and achieve the optimal balance of cost, risk, and reliability.
Backed by proven expertise in asset condition monitoring and machinery protection, Cordant™ Devices deliver a comprehensive portfolio of monitoring systems, advanced sensing technologies, and asset protection services. From Bently Nevada™ Orbit DCM distributed condition monitoring to trusted Bently Nevada™ sensor integrations, our offerings provide precise, real-time insights that help safeguard critical equipment and optimize performance.
With the introduction of our latest monitoring platform, the Bently Nevada™ Orbit 60 Series, we continue to push the boundaries of innovation—reinforcing our commitment to leading the industry in machinery protection and condition monitoring.
Our approach to asset performance management begins with our experienced, versatile teams and their unmatched expertise in optimizing asset performance. Our dedicated specialists—both on-site and remote—turn your data into actionable results through machinery health services, reliability programs, edge device installation and commissioning, and customer training and skills development.
Proven outcomes that protect and provide peace of mind
An industry leader and technology pioneer since 1961
Inspired by the possibilities of eddy-current sensors, Don Bently enters graduate school. He begins developing technology and forms a new business out of his garage in Berkeley, California In 1961, Don relocates the business to Minden with a new name: Bently Nevada
Bently Nevada makes its first sale of a condition monitoring system; in the same year, OEMs begin installing proximity probes on machine
Proximitor 3000 goes to market, and is the first mass produced eddy-current vibration sensor, firmly establishing Bently Nevada as an industry pioneer for machinery protection
Launch of standardized 5000 series monitor for machinery protection Expansion of sales force to Houston, Texas
First international office opens in the Netherlands
Introduction of the 7200 series monitors and transducers. The world’s first turbine supervisory instrumentation
“Wherever Sales are available, Service will be available.” – Don Bently. The advanced Machinery Diagnostic Services “MDS” team is formed in 1978
Launch of Data Manager Software, the original predecessor to System 1
Sale of 1,000,000th transducer
3300 Proximity transducer system is introduced
The iconic 3500 asset protection system is introduced
3300XL Proximitor is introduced, setting the industry standard for vibration and machinery protection
System 1 software is born
Bently Nevada becomes a public company as part of General Electric
Launch of monitoring technology for wind turbines
Acquisition of CommTest, now part of the SCOUT product family for portable monitoring
Bently Nevada is now part of Digital Solutions at Baker Hughes
First unit ships: The 5th generation monitoring system, the Orbit 60 Series, is designed for cybersecure asset protection and complete System 1 connectivity Acquisition of ARMS Reliability, a leading global provider of reliability solutions
System 1 is now cloud-enabled with greater technology capability, positioning Bently Nevada as a leading provider of integrated asset performance management solutions. Baker Hughes forms a Commercial Alliance with Augury, extending machine learning and AI technology to a broader asset library.