Intellect

Created in 1999 after a successful trial in aerospace, Intellect has been deployed around the world in many industries. It gives engineers, production managers, and plant managers the ability to capture and capitalize on expert knowledge, see what is happening and why, and identify the operating actions that improve product and process performance in an enterprise architecture at scale.

Intellect turns industrial data and engineering knowledge into better operating decisions, stronger production performance, and more consistent product results.

What Intellect gives your team

Engineers: see, understand, and improve process and product behavior

Engineers work with materials, industrial processes, and resulting product performance as it actually operates across changing materials, rates, equipment conditions, operating states, and production objectives.

• Bring information together from the systems that contain process and product knowledge.
• Synchronize and contextualize measurements across time and operating conditions.
• Build models of process and product performance.
• Estimate or predict values that are delayed, difficult, or expensive to measure directly.
• Identify events, abnormal conditions, and changing operating states.
• Test operating choices against current conditions.
• Develop recommendations and optimized setpoints for the physical operation and optionally write setpoints back to the DCS.
• Connect models, results, and engineering knowledge so the work is reused and improved.

The result is a stronger engineering view of what drives performance and what action will improve it.

Production managers: improve performance while production continues

Production managers use Intellect to see performance across unit operations, assets, departments, and facilities rather than treating each measurement or process area in isolation.

• Integrate data from DCS, SCADA, historians, LIMS, MES, maintenance systems, and more.
• Monitor current process and product performance.
• Recognize developing issues earlier.
• Compare performance across relevant operating conditions, lines, and plants.
• Understand the conditions contributing to a result.
• Evaluate production choices against quality, rate, cost, and other objectives.
• Receive alerts, predictions, reports, recommendations, or optimized operating values.
• Coordinate improvement across multiple operations and assets.

The result is reduced waste, less unscheduled downtime, more consistent product performance, better utilization, more effective raw material usage, fewer defects, and more timely operating awareness.

Plant managers: operate at scale with confidence

Plant managers need performance improvements that hold across the plant and continue to work as the number of assets, users, models, data sources, and applications grows.

• Extend intelligence from one unit operation to plant, regional, and multi-facility scale.
• Maintain around-the-clock execution of operational solutions.
• Give different users access to the information and actions appropriate to their responsibilities.
• Preserve expert operating knowledge and make it available to the wider team.
• Govern models, recommendations, data, and user activity.
• Monitor system and service health.
• Support deployment across on premises, cloud, control room, data center, and industrial platform environments.

The result is an industrial intelligence system that grows with your deployments and supports plant performance as your scope of work expands.

The capabilities behind those results

Model and predict process and product performance

Intellect uses robust industrial data access, operating context, and production history to build models that understand, estimate, and predict process and product behavior. These models provide product quality prediction, production rate prediction, virtual metering, sensor validation, and other applications where timely understanding improves operating action.

Optimize against current operating reality

Intellect evaluates objectives, constraints, costs, desirabilities, and controllable variables under current conditions online and in real time. Optimization produces recommendations or setpoints that connect predicted performance to the physical adjustments available to the operation.

Monitor conditions and identify change

Intellect monitors process and equipment behavior, detects events and operating states, and identifies abnormal conditions. Surveillance uses learned normal behavior or configured thresholds and rules, across individual variables or multiple variables considered as a system.

Connect industrial context and knowledge

Intellect connects contexts, variables, assets, materials, events, models, findings, claims, sources, policies, and other industrial entities into enterprise-wide contextualization. Users navigate, see, and understand relationships and provenance rather than viewing every value as an isolated data point.

Give teams intelligent assistance

Optional Intellect agents work with configured tools and your industrial data to build models, understand relationships, store them in causal graphs and document memory, and recall this vital information 24/7/365. Pose a question to the agent and access the captured operating knowledge when an expert is unavailable. Curated memory and review workflows capture expertise, retain useful findings, and make operating knowledge available for later work.

Run and manage solutions continuously

Intellect supports the complete path from data access and synchronization through preprocessing, modeling, prediction, optimization, alerts, reports, and operating recommendations. Solutions run continuously on streaming events or timers, with results delivered to people and control systems through the system’s operational interfaces.

Enterprise-grade operation

Due to customer demand, Intellect operates as a resilient industrial enterprise-grade system at scale rather than a monolithic application.

It does this through a distributed architecture in which services securely register with the system, communicate through defined interfaces, report their health, and support flexible deployment and recovery. Work is assigned to healthy service instances as the system operates across multiple services, hosts, and Intellect Servers.

The system provides the enterprise controls required for serious industrial use, including authentication, policy-based authorization, service monitoring, audit, backup and restore, and controlled access to industrial contexts, variables, knowledge, models, and actions.

One system, from operating data to operating value

Intellect connects industrial data, engineering knowledge, models, predictions, optimization, operating action, and business objectives in one system.

It helps your team know what is happening, understand why performance is changing, see what may happen next, and act on better information while the operation continues.

Talk to an Intellect engineer

Tell us about your process, product, production objective, or operating opportunity. We will discuss where industrial intelligence can create value in your operation.