Griffin Open Systems
Griffin AI Toolkit
Griffin’s AI Toolkit® is a mature platform for control and optimization of plant processes. It supports many industries as they add reliable technology to the efficiency work they already do. The system is open and customizable, which is where the value shows up for an organization that expects to grow and change.
Automating the mundane, optimizing the complex
- Saves millions of dollars.
- Helps you meet the targets you already have.
- Improves flexibility and turndown.
- Raises efficiency in a way operators can see.
A no-code way to build a digital factory
Continue the digital transformation
The Griffin AI Toolkit works with the Griffin Dashboard Toolkit. It builds on the dashboard with a wide set of AI tools for automating and optimizing a factory or process facility.
Continuous process improvement
The same no-code environment holds tools for logic, modeling, optimizing, and diagnostics. The open design leaves you in control of how the solution is used and how it is adapted over time.
Technology that matches the plant
A library of data links collects and organizes the data you already have:
- OPC
- Modbus
- SQL Server
- HTTP REST API
- MQTT / Sparkplug B
- HTTP WebSocket
- OSI PI
- and others
Streamline the process
The no-code application platform is where that data is processed and analyzed, and where the plant process itself is streamlined.
What customers report
KSB enabled us to break away from sequence blowing. Got rid of 25+ operator-based sequences that were overkill. Blowers run more as needed now, with roughly 20–30% aux steam savings. And we’ve been able to tune KSB rules and holds on blowers such that our units are as efficient and as clean as needed for baseload, as well as being inefficient and as dirty as needed to keep exit temps up at low loads for best ESP and SCR operation, the latter of which has made for better flexibility and turndown.
Before Griffin, I was walking the unit down easily once a week, sometimes more. Usually we asked Operations to blow certain lances, which required verification and a physical check to make sure it achieved the level of cleanliness that we wanted. Sometimes I would change sequences to get the boiler clean, which usually required a week or so to tweak the sequence, document the changes and verifications. Before Griffin, boiler cleanliness consumed 30% of my day. Now with Griffin, I don’t do any of the tweaking anymore. Griffin does it for us.
Using the Griffin system, Ameren has been able to meet our NOx targets without the installation of any SCRs on our 10 coal-fired boilers. By purchasing the Griffin corporate license we have saved millions of dollars in optimizer license fees compared to previous optimizers that were purchased by Ameren.
As a systems integrator, the Griffin Dashboard has revolutionized my workflow. Its no-code interface allows me to create tailored client prototypes in mere hours, an efficiency that was previously unattainable. Its open design coupled with an extensive range of data links facilitates seamless integration of multiple systems, transforming raw data into actionable process knowledge. What truly sets Griffin’s Dashboard apart are its deep customization options. They allow for the encapsulation of proprietary knowledge in a highly intuitive user interface. This sophisticated platform has made rapid prototyping a reality, and its real-time testing capabilities mean that new process control and automation strategies can be deployed seamlessly, without disrupting existing systems.
The free version is an excellent starting point for my clients, offering a risk-free opportunity to experience the value of this dynamic tool firsthand. It’s not just a game-changer in the landscape of process control and optimization. It’s the new industry 4.0 standard.
I would say that we are able to optimize using Griffin Toolkit on both units 3 and 4, getting better performance on NOx and opacity, even without the oxygen controller on the optimizer. Just being able to stage the air correctly has lowered both NOx and opacity with higher than normal oxygen. Hopefully by the end of the summer we can achieve even lower numbers once we start using the oxygen on the COS system.
Questions we hear
What exactly is a digital factory?
A digital factory is a centralized organization of digital data. That data is used to create dashboards so people can follow production, analytics tools so they can investigate the process, and digital models for continuous evaluation and optimization of the process.
We need an interface that lowers cost and raises profit.
In-house experts and applied-AI partners turn raw data into something operators and engineers can act on.
How do Griffin’s products help with organizational knowledge?
The aim is a digital transformation that stays straightforward, with the team available through the work. The artificial intelligence is reliable, open, and customizable.
What is Adivarent Control®, and how does it relate to us?
Adivarent Control is Griffin Open Systems’ name for the layer that assists the control system with complex tasks and assists operators with knowledge-based responses that need constant attention. It is how an operator’s tacit knowledge is institutionalized across the organization.