Dashboard Toolkit

The free Dashboard Toolkit is the practical start toward a digital factory. Griffin Open Systems’ no-code dashboard is used to lower cost, raise profit, improve efficiency, and streamline the process.

Between the control system and the operator

• Saves millions of dollars.
• Helps you meet the targets you already have.
• Improves flexibility and turndown.
• Raises efficiency in a way operators can see.

Since 2013, Griffin Open Systems has been optimizing traditional plant processes so operators and the control systems they already run can do more. Through a partnership with Taber International, LLC, whose people have spent more than 40 years with electric utilities and other industries on efficiency and emissions, that work is done with customers rather than around them.

A no-code way to build a digital factory

Build a better facility

Dynamic dashboards are built in minutes with a pick-and-place tool.

Streamline the process

The no-code application platform is where data is processed and analyzed.

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.

A path into the Griffin AI Toolkit

When you are ready to optimize, the move from the Dashboard to the Griffin AI Toolkit® is a direct one. The same plant data is already connected.

What customers report

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.

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.

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.

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.

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