About
Industrial Asset Scanner is built by Walkdown LLC — founded after twelve years of listening to maintenance teams describe the same problem, without any real, viable solutions easily accessible to them.
I spent nearly twelve years at Dude Solutions — later Brightly, and acquired by Siemens — starting in Support and Implementation, moving into Solution Consulting, and finishing as a Senior Director.
That is where this started. Thousands of conversations with maintenance and reliability teams, almost all of them circling the same problem: the software was ready, and the asset data was not.
Teams would ask what services existed to help them capture their equipment data. The honest answer was usually a consultant with a clipboard and an invoice large enough to make the project hard to justify. So the register never got built, or it got built badly — and every system downstream inherited the gaps.
Why this exists
The technology to solve this has only recently caught up. Where it does exist, it usually arrives bundled inside a platform you may not want to buy — which is the wrong trade for a problem this specific.
A walkdown is something your own team can do. It should be straightforward and inexpensive to turn that walk into accurate, structured data you can take anywhere: your EAM, CMMS, ERP, MES, or a spreadsheet. Your data, your systems, your choice.
Industrial Asset Scanner is built from those conversations — across data centers, oil and gas, life sciences, and general manufacturing. The design decisions came from what people actually told me they needed, not from what was easiest to build.
AI is in every product now, which means the constraint has moved. It is no longer the software; it is whether the data underneath it is accurate and complete. Your assets are the foundation everything else rests on. This exists to make that part easier to get right.