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AlphaPilot — the heart of the Alpha suite

One plant model at the centre of every Alpha application — built as a knowledge graph in AlphaPilot, and powered by ChatAPC.

AlphaPilot is where your plant lives. Equipment, instruments, control loops, models, limits and prices are drawn once on the AlphaPilot canvas and kept as one plant knowledge graph. AlphaData, AlphaModel, AlphaNRM, AlphaExplorer and AlphaMax — the multi-unit optimizer that guides your APCs and operators — all work from that same graph, and ChatAPC — the AI inside AlphaPilot — answers any question about it, with every answer traced back to the plant.

Inside AlphaPilot

See the whole unit, ask it anything, trace every answer.

AlphaPilot plant canvas: a crude unit flowsheet with the APC controller wired to its manipulated and controlled variables, and a panel of active constraints and captured margin.

Plant canvas

Your process, live, with AlphaMax guiding it.

Every vessel, stream and instrument on one screen — with the moves AlphaMax recommends, the limits the unit is holding and the margin it is capturing, updated in real time.

ChatAPC inside AlphaPilot answering “Why can’t we push more kerosene?” with the two active constraints and a what-if worth +€6,200 per day.

Powered by ChatAPC

Ask why — and get the reason, not just a number.

Operators and engineers ask in plain language. ChatAPC answers from your own plant model and live data, shows which limits are active and what relaxing one would be worth.

The plant knowledge graph in its force layout, with a highlighted path from the kerosene price through the flash-point analyzer and the AlphaPilot controller to the reflux flow. The same knowledge graph laid out in levels — economics, operations, model, control, instrumentation and process — with the kerosene flash point selected.

Plant knowledge graph

Generated in AlphaPilot, shared by every app.

Everything you draw in AlphaPilot becomes one connected graph — equipment, instruments, loops, models and prices. AlphaData, AlphaModel, AlphaNRM, AlphaExplorer and ChatAPC all work from it, so every answer can be traced from the price of a product down to the valve that moves it.

One plant model, every app

Draw the plant once. Every Alpha application works from the same model — no second copy, no files passed from tool to tool.

Powered by ChatAPC

Ask in plain language, in the control room or the office. ChatAPC answers from the plant model and live data, and shows the tools and numbers behind every answer.

A knowledge graph that builds itself

Every object you draw, every tag you connect and every limit you set becomes part of the graph — versioned, traceable and ready for every other app.

AlphaMax, the optimizer, on the same model

AlphaMax, the multi-unit optimizer, runs on the plant model in AlphaPilot: it tells your APCs where to run, says what to do next and guides the operator step by step.

Works with what you already run

Imports your existing MPC and DCS configuration and runs alongside Honeywell, AspenTech or whatever you have — on-premise and air-gap ready.

Put your plant in one model — and ask it anything.

A free assessment shows what one plant model, and ChatAPC on top of it, could unlock on your units — no commitment.

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