Public Forge Projects
- John Crane Sense
- Intellifuse Smart Infusion Systems
- Green Lantern

Public Forge Projects

Much of what the Forge worked on remains proprietary to the parent company. However, there are a couple of projects that have a public presence, and we can provide some details on those.

John Crane Sense

John Crane’s long experience in preventing and remediating leaks will enable us to play a leading role in customer decarbonisation through our methane initiative.

Methane is the most potent current contributor to global warming. With the oil & gas sector set to continue playing a key role in the energy supply chain, reducing methane emissions is a critical step towards Net Zero. Pursuing all mitigation measures now could slow the rate of near term global warming by as much as 30%, potentially reducing total warming by a half degree by the end of the century. Systematic measuring, mitigation and monitoring to limit methane emissions will be required by the sector to meet decarbonisation goals.

Working with the Smiths Digital Forge, John Crane is developing technology and services to meet this need, which can be deployed across a range of environments from pipelines and plants to offshore rigs, in order to provide data to customers that will enable them to monitor methane leaks from sources over time and take corrective action. Multiple solutions are being developed to enable affordable technology and the ability to detect methane leaks in remote and hazardous locations.

Source Smiths Annual Report 2021.

Our Digital Forge centre of excellence in the San Francisco Bay area, opened in 2018, is accelerating digital projects and providing a co-innovation space for us, our customers and other partners. John Crane Sense™ is one example of the collaboration between the Digital Forge and John Crane.

Sense is a platform utilising sensors and software that allow customers to optimise performance and improve reliability. Working with John Crane experts, the Digital Forge has developed sophisticated machine learning algorithms that monitor seal performance, diagnose root causes of equipment issues, and predict and prevent potential failures.

John Crane experts build sensors into seals and integrate sensors with the surrounding equipment to capture critical data. The Digital Forge developed the technical infrastructure to move this data to a highly secure cloud-based server where it is processed using the latest algorithms and then stored for visualisation and continuous analysis over the life of the asset. Customers can also access all of their own unique information and gain valuable insights via this secure web browser based solution.

Our innovation framework is enabling increased collaboration such as this across Smiths and extends to external partnerships. In FY2019 we entered into new partnerships with leading universities to help share ideas and create innovations for the future.

Source Smiths annual report 2018

Key Forge developed technology elements

More details on John Crane Sense are available here.

Intellifuse Smart Infusion Systems

Intellifuse is designed to be a multi-generational development programme to deliver a, rackable, stackable, interoperable, and extendable platform for both Large Volume Pumps and Syringe Pumps

Souce Smiths Annual Report 2020

Key Forge developed technology elements

More details on are available here

Green Lantern

Integrated greenhouse gas monitoring stack

Source: Smiths Capital Markets Event

Key Forge developed technology elements