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Solutions · Process industries

Continuous flow, tighter every shift.

Chemical, pharmaceutical, food, refining, pulp and paper — operations where the loop matters more than the line. Where world-class continuous-process OEE is 90%+ and yield-loss in single-digit basis points compounds into millions per year. Ipnops Industry is the intelligence layer that ties PAT instrumentation, RL controllers, batch records, and operator expertise into one continuously-improving system.

world-class continuous-process OEE

90%+

Process Analytical Technology integrated

PAT

compliant change-control + batch records

GMP

24h traceability retrieval

FSMA 204

Use cases

What the platform actually does, here.

RL-tuned process loops

Soft Actor-Critic and Proximal Policy Optimization controllers for continuous loops — refinery catalytic reforming, gasoline blending, fermentation, paper machine wet-end. Control-Informed RL embeds PID set-point tracking inside the deep-RL architecture so engineers retain trust. Validated on published 800,000 t/a catalytic-reforming benchmarks; safety envelope enforced at all times.

Golden-batch control under GMP

Pharma 4.0 PAT integration with AI-driven control loops maintaining the 'golden batch' state. Real-time process-analytical sensors (Raman, NIR, pH, conductivity, dissolved O2) feed the controller; convolutional networks detect anomalous particle aggregation or size drift in real time and adjust before the batch slips off-spec. Every parameter excursion logged for the batch record.

Continuous manufacturing

By 2026 PAT + AI control loops are mature enough that pharma is shifting from batch to continuous manufacturing for relevant SKUs. The platform models the coupled-loop continuous process, flags steady-state excursions, and runs the change-control simulation that lets QA sign off without weeks of paper. Cleaning-and-setup downtime largely disappears.

Quality 4.0

Digital twins of the process — actively controlling parameters, not just monitoring — let operators see what the next batch will look like before it runs. AI-driven compliance becomes a real-time layer rather than a post-batch audit. The platform produces the evidence pack QA needs without bolt-on consultants.

Food & beverage AI + FSMA 204

Computer-vision contamination and foreign-object detection at production speed (98%+ accuracy in 2026 deployments). FSMA 204 Critical Tracking Events captured automatically with traceability lot codes, KDEs, and the 24-hour FDA-retrieval requirement met by default. Allergen-changeover validation through CIP and vision QC.

Refinery + chemical optimisation

Real-time optimisation of catalytic reforming, hydrocracking, and crude blending under feedstock variability — transfer learning + RL composes a controller that adapts to today's feedstock without recomissioning. Documented industry results show measurable margin uplift; the platform attributes uplift back to the controller decisions for accounting.

How a deployment runs

From PAT integration to autonomous batch.

  1. 01

    Phase 1: PAT + DCS + LIMS ingestion. Process simulator built or imported. Batch-record schema mapped. Read-only baseline.

  2. 02

    Phase 2: RL controller trained against the simulator for one in-scope loop. Operator-side trip thresholds back to PID always available.

  3. 03

    Phase 3: Golden-batch model deployed under GMP change-control. Real-time anomaly detection on PAT signals. QA dashboards with full lineage.

  4. 04

    Phase 4: Continuous-manufacturing transition for relevant SKUs. Autonomous batch execution under the customer's policy envelope. Audit pack for FDA / EMA / EU GMP Annex 1.

Models active in this configuration

  • TimesFM 2.5
  • Moirai
  • SAC + PPO + CIRL
  • Qwen3-VL
  • PANNs
  • ProcessSim
  • Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite