Our story begins with
2 Senior Naval Officers…
Conor and Ronan were working on a reliability maintenance project to enable naval ships to operate away from home waters for prolonged periods on humanitarian missions. Through advanced condition based monitoring techniques, they led a team that dramatically increased each ship’s mean time between failures and revolutionised operational reliability.
Over a period of 3 years, the team lead by Conor and Ronan enabled and supported the fleet to save over 17,000 lives – this was directly due to no machine failures and consequently no loss of days at sea.
Even a minor machine failure onboard can result in a ship’s removal from the area of operations. Travelling to a shore side repair facility can result in a minimum 2 day operational loss. For major failures, the vessel could be out of service for a longer period of time.
How could this process be applied to the wider industry?
Conor and Ronan questioned – “If we are experiencing these issues and solving them here in the maritime domain what is happening in other industrial sectors?…”
Conor visited a Pharmaceutical site and quickly realised the similarities of their machinery and associated reliability issues to that of a ship.
And, hence ARQ was born – transferring their expertise in the maritime domain to include the Pharmaceutical and Energy industries. A revolutionary approach to condition based maintenance was created, utilising oil analysis – ‘we focus on the condition and the quality of the oil and ensuring it never hits that early failure indicator of wear metals’.
Founded
ARQ was founded 13 MAY 2016 by Co-Founders Conor O’Sullivan and Ronan Carey.
An Enterprise Ireland Company
ARQ are an Enterprise Ireland company with seven (7) employees. Approx. 65% of business is local, 25% national & 10% International.
Award Winning
Supporters
ARQ are an award winning company (Intertrade Ireland Seedcorn Investor readiness regional winner & all-island finalist, LEO National Enterprise Awards national finalists, Interreg Proto Atlantic national winners & national representative in Europe).
We are grateful to our valued Supporters: Enterprise Ireland, Intertrade Ireland, Interreg, Cork County Council and Cork LEO.
