Bad vibrations are good business for Idaho firm – Sentient Corp.

For Sean Marble and his team at Sentient Corp., business is picking up bad vibrations.

Since 2001, the Idaho Falls company has grown to 11 people developing software that will allow the owners of aircraft, satellites and helicopters — mainly Uncle Sam — the means to detect component failures before they occur.

Because it costs at least $1 million to rebuild a jet engine, an owner doesn’t want to tear it apart any sooner than necessary. In the past, mechanics and engineers would use a stethoscope to hear whether an engine was making any funny sounds.

By Paul Menser
The Post Register

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