About

Since 2013, Griffin Open Systems has been optimizing traditional plant processes so operators and the control systems they already run can do more. The company was founded to close a specific gap. DCS and PLC platforms are strong at deterministic control, and they are a poor place to keep the knowledge of experienced operators and engineers. Griffin set out to build a software platform that could sit in that gap.

The Griffin AI Toolkit® was developed from the ground up for that purpose. It is a no-code interface with a companion rapid-prototyping runtime. Process engineers use it to avoid long stretches of software troubleshooting and workarounds for DCS control limitations. Customers have used the platform to save millions of dollars in process cost, and hundreds of millions of dollars in capital cost.

Open, because every process is different

Each process is unique, so the software was designed to be open. Third-party experts, including a plant’s own engineers, can build a solution for that process without the overhead of maintaining or learning a code base. When a site wants help choosing the first optimization target, Griffin works with applied-AI partners on applications across a wide range of industries, including power, steel, and cement.

Scale is not the constraint. However large or complex the process, the Toolkit is used to automate manual work and to take inefficiency out of the operation.

The people with the software

The software is paired with a team whose tacit knowledge spans chemical, nuclear, aerospace, and computer engineering. Contact us to talk about how the Griffin Toolkit can lower the cost of production and improve the way the operation runs.