{"id":45289,"date":"2021-09-28T11:01:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T18:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cohu.com\/?p=45289"},"modified":"2025-04-09T01:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T08:03:34","slug":"how-tignis-digital-twins-power-the-future-of-ai-based-process-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cohu.com\/tignis\/how-tignis-digital-twins-power-the-future-of-ai-based-process-control\/","title":{"rendered":"How Tignis Digital Twins Power The Future of AI-Based Process Control"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-m8g28v5p-746d8baae8d89148fb421ccddfa3a141\">\n.avia-section.av-m8g28v5p-746d8baae8d89148fb421ccddfa3a141 .av-parallax .av-parallax-inner{\nbackground-repeat:no-repeat;\nbackground-image:url(\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/resources-banner-1500x333.jpg);\nbackground-position:50% 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.av-special-heading.av-m8g29ww6-7c8f5d1e1b0dcf1d73c51bc2382622fb .av-special-heading-tag{\nfont-size:33px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-m8g29ww6-7c8f5d1e1b0dcf1d73c51bc2382622fb .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-m8g29ww6-7c8f5d1e1b0dcf1d73c51bc2382622fb av-special-heading-h1 custom-color-heading blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-2  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  av-inherit-size av-linked-heading'><h1 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >PHYSICS, MACHINES AND DATA<\/h1><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id='after_section_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page 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To the left of him are several transparent graphs and metrics' title='Screen-Shot-2021-09-28-at-10.28.53-AM'  height=\"630\" width=\"1500\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div  class='av-post-metadata-container av-1ffp7gp-fd0ac4bdc313ab7054d4a5e26eeba885 av-metadata-container-align-center  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_hr  av-metadata-container-1'><div class='av-post-metadata-container-inner'><span class=\"av-post-metadata-content av-post-metadata-meta-content\"><span class=\"av-post-metadata-content av-post-metadata-published\"><span class=\"av-post-metadata-published-date\" >28. September 2021<\/span><\/span><span class=\"av-post-metadata-content av-post-metadata-separator\">|<\/span><span class=\"av-post-metadata-content av-post-metadata-category\"><span class=\"av-metadata-before av-metadata-before-categories\">in<\/span><span class=\"av-post-metadata-category-link\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cohu.com\/category\/thought-leadership\/\" >Thought Leadership<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-m8g8f03u-072bca597c6bb7a0e81aa40d7b3a1c79\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-m8g8f03u-072bca597c6bb7a0e81aa40d7b3a1c79{\nheight:50px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-m8g8f03u-072bca597c6bb7a0e81aa40d7b3a1c79 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_post_metadata  el_before_av_one_full '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div  class='flex_column av-p4c9op-7ca3ea1e3c6a76f453c5e0cdb9456c61 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-m99n7264-7f1d3bc4bd9c3fe23cf91c8ae386ed8e '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><blockquote>\n<p><strong>Executive Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Internet of Things and the Industrial Internet of Things continues to develop with advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.\u00a0 New solutions offer cost savings, efficiency gains and improved yield that were not possible before. \u00a0Startups like Tignis are leveraging these advances to optimize industrial operations and make Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning available to almost any application. AI and ML, which have been widely deployed for consumer internet applications with great effect, will have to be completely reimagined for usability in the industrial world.\u00a0 A new approach that adapts AI\/ML to the world of physical sciences is required to enable solutions offering cost savings, efficiency gains and improved yields not previously possible. Tignis is pioneering these advances to optimize industrial operations and make Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning available to almost any application.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-m8g8fonm-b33ad35b8c4080eb46db8daebbd7cdde\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-m8g8fonm-b33ad35b8c4080eb46db8daebbd7cdde .avia_textblock{\nfont-size:18px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-m8g8fonm-b33ad35b8c4080eb46db8daebbd7cdde '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING TODAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The benefits of big data analytics using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI\/ML) to the Internet economy cannot be understated. Today\u2019s leading Internet companies have pushed the frontier of AI\/ML as a foundational enabling technology to power their advertising revenues. \u00a0The monetization of the \u201cattention economy\u201d requires the use of AI\/ML to aggregate and analyze massive data sets.\u00a0 Similarly, large retailers use AI\/ML to power their merchandizing strategies, personalized commerce, and their potential upsell\/cross-sell opportunities (i.e., \u201cif you like this, you will like that\u201d).\u00a0 This has largely been in the purely digital domain.<\/p>\n<p>The world is in the early days of a major Great Leap Forward. AI\/ML is moving from the \u201cdigital domain\u201d for big data analytics into the \u201canalog domain\u201d for controlling real-world physical machines and complex systems built from those machines. We are on the verge of centralized computers using AI\/ML to actively control machines at a massive scale. To enable this leap forward, investment in AI innovation has surged over the last 5 to 6 years. Over $50 Billion of venture funding has gone into AI\/ML companies just in the last four quarters per CB insights.<\/p>\n<p>There has been much written over the past half-decade about the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). A global race is underway to instrument the world with 10s of billions of new network-connected sensors and data collection probes. This tsunami of new data sources is laying the foundation for a not-too-distant future where computers using AI\/ML will control and optimize the performance of highly complex large-scale industrial processes that make our daily lives possible.<\/p>\n<p>Industries such as energy production, manufacturing, healthcare, and transportation are being re-imagined with AI\/ML running in centralized cloud computing and operations centers controlling industrial processes that have historically been managed by human experts.\u00a0 The legions of skilled process and operations engineers will not be replaced by AI\/ML, but they will be given \u201csuperpowers\u201d to do more work, in less time, with greater accuracy.\u00a0 This article introduces foundational frontier technologies such as \u201cDigital Twins\u201d and \u201creal-time analytics\u201d that are emerging as the key enablers for a new era of industrial efficiency and productivity gains.<\/p>\n<p><strong>REIMAGINING AI AND ML FOR INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Typically, machine learning requires terabytes or even petabytes of data to train a massive ML model. The Internet economy is based on aggregating massive data sets from user clickstreams to determine likes, dislikes, interests, affinities, etc. \u00a0In the industrial space, it is common that a data scientist only has megabytes or gigabytes of data for training.\u00a0 To make AI\/ML useful for the industrial world, AI\/ML models need to be aware that the industrial world is governed by the physical sciences; statics; dynamics; thermodynamics; fluid mechanics, biology, chemistry, etc. \u00a0Only then can the benefits of machine learning be realized for real-time AI\/ML-based Process Control (AIPC) while filling in the gaps in small data sets. A nuanced understanding of the physical sciences that govern the behavior and performance of an industrial process or system within the said process is critical to track, control, and optimize its\u2019 performance.<\/p>\n<p>Innovation at the collaborative boundary between physical sciences (broadly defined) and AI\/ML is where the next major wave of innovation will be found. We call this \u201c<strong>AI+X<\/strong>\u201d for short.<\/p>\n<p>Industrial machines are increasingly becoming \u201ccyber-physical\u201d, meaning they are being infused with a proliferation of new sensors, data collection probes, and network connectivity to transport the data that is generated to a centralized location for analysis.\u00a0 However, the first step in using these new sources of machine-generated data is to check their validity. AI\/ML is fundamentally about analyzing large data sets to search for and identify patterns within the data, to group and classify elements within the data set into groups based on some pre-determined characteristics. This pattern matching is typically done by minimizing some error function between what you are observing and what you are seeking to find.\u00a0 Sensor data from industrial processes is often inaccurate due to machine calibration issues, tolerances, or failures at some point along the data collection to analytics chain. Physical sciences provide the rules to validate the veracity of real-time IoT\/IIoT sensor data before it is analyzed by AI\/ML control planes.\u00a0 This interdisciplinary collaboration between physics broadly defined and AI\/ML is the key enabler for machines to control complex industrial processes.\u00a0 Computers do only, and exactly, what they are told.\u00a0 Traditional AI\/ML from the purely digital domain analyzes the data that it is fed.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the evolution of the modern aircraft engine to understand this industry trend towards 1) heavily instrumented, 2) purpose-built, 3) cloud-managed with AI+X to optimize performance.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft engine industry has gone through a major transformation over the last two decades. Aircraft engine manufacturers have gone from selling a discrete product (i.e., jet engines) to new business models (i.e., leasing\/renting of jet engines) and more recently to a service model (example: selling horsepower). To support this transition, aircraft engine manufacturers such as General Electric have enormously improved their instrumentation by increasing the number of sensors from two hundred in an engine two decades ago to four thousand today. This new level of instrumentation provides vastly better situational awareness and helps the manufacturer improve product quality and helps them come up with creative ways of monetizing their investments.<\/p>\n<p>The automobile industry is another example of how the power of AI\/ML is being combined with vast amounts of sensor data and the physical sciences to actively control a complex real-world process.\u00a0 In this case, the car is a purpose-built physical appliance\/robot that exists to provide transportation-as-a-service.\u00a0 Automobiles began as relatively simple machines that could be maintained by a reasonably handy person with some simple tools. Over the past decade cars evolved with onboard computers that perform advanced system diagnostics for basic maintenance tasks. Something as basic as tire pressure and tire wear is now continuously tracked with purpose-built, wireless sensors.\u00a0 Modern cars have effectively become data centers on wheels.\u00a0 Driver-assist via 360-degree view camera arrays, collisions avoidance systems, integrated navigation controls, and even \u201cpet modes\u201d that sense the presence of a pet when a car has been turned off and proactively control the climate in the vehicle are commonplace.\u00a0 Every major auto manufacturer has a major R&amp;D initiative for autonomous vehicles. AI\/ML is foundational to the emerging systems for computer vision, radar, lidar, precision geo-location, collision avoidance, etc. that will make autonomous vehicles increasingly common over the next decade. Each autonomous vehicle will be actively managed by a \u201cDigital Twin\u201d running in the cloud where sensor data can be ingested, rationalized, verified as being viable, aggregated, and put to good use.<\/p>\n<p>According to Strategy Analytics, we already have about 22 billion devices connected to the internet as of 2018 and that is expected to grow to about 50 billion by 2030.\u00a0 This growth is going to be driven primarily by more connected machines and enables ML in the industrial space.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD IN INDUSTRIAL PROCESS CONTROL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the need for bringing AI and ML to the industrial world emerges, it makes sense to focus on high-value industrial processes which are labor-intensive and\/or hazardous. \u00a0Examples include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0Energy (both traditional and renewable)<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0Semiconductor manufacturing<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0Automotive\/transportation<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0Healthcare<\/p>\n<p>These industries have highly talented process and control engineers, but they do not have the tools to make sense of the deluge of data coming from the connected machines that they are now tasked with managing.<\/p>\n<p>To create the factories of the future as envisioned by the Industry 4.0 vision (coined by Klaus Schwab, the Founder of the World Economic Forum.), the following basic steps need to happen:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The flood of data needs to be ingested in a cost-efficient manner.<br \/>\n2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The data needs to be put into a form that is useful, relevant and actionable.<br \/>\n3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Complex processes and end-to-end workflows need to be understood.<br \/>\n4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Representative digital models of the industrial workflows need to be built.<br \/>\n5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AI\/ML techniques need to be applied to enhance workflow outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>With current technologies, this work is only possible with a cross-functional set of skillset and thus can be prohibitively expensive.<\/p>\n<p>As a precursor, IT operations management has evolved over the last decade from stage 1 (i.e., monitoring and observability) to currently at about stage 3 (recommendations) as shown in the graphic below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt aligncenter wp-image-45298 size-large\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-28-at-10.31.38-AM-1030x110.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1030\" height=\"110\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-28-at-10.31.38-AM-1030x110.png 1030w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-28-at-10.31.38-AM-300x32.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-28-at-10.31.38-AM-768x82.png 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-28-at-10.31.38-AM-1536x164.png 1536w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-28-at-10.31.38-AM-2048x219.png 2048w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-28-at-10.31.38-AM-1500x160.png 1500w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-28-at-10.31.38-AM-705x75.png 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1030px) 100vw, 1030px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Industrial process control will have to go through a similar transformation if it is to deliver superior business outcomes.\u00a0 AI and ML will be the foundational technology to enable the evolution along this continuum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENTER DIGITAL TWINS AND TIGNIS AI-BASED PROCESS CONTROL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Based in Seattle and founded by the former VMWare Cloud Management CTO Dr. Jonathan Herlocker, Tignis has built a revolutionary platform that is uniquely positioned to address the AI-based Process Control (AIPC) challenges and opportunities outlined above.<\/p>\n<p>Tignis recently launched the world\u2019s first comprehensive solutions suite to quickly build, monitor, deploy and optimize industrial processes with Digital Twins based on AI\/ML and physics. The Tignis PAICe Product Suite has three components:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0PAICe Builder, an analytics tool easy enough for anyone to use<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0PAICe Monitor, allows for easy deployment to the private or public cloud<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0PAICe Maker, deploys ML-based algorithms that improve with time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The key capabilities of the suite can be summarized as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0Modeling a complex industrial process<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0Data ingestion at web-scale and rationalize data so that it is useful<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0Simple and efficient creation and deployment of ML to data to glean insights<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0ML-based closed-loop control of the processes to optimize performance<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0Interactive data analysis powered by a new intuitive language<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Simply put, the Tignis platform enables Internet-scale big data aggregation and validation across all the connected elements in any high-value industrial process. Tignis validates the machine\u2019s logs and sensor data against the physical science parameters, then provides an intuitive representation of the entire end-to-end process. In other words, creating a \u201cDigital Twin\u201d of the physical system that runs in the cloud, but is continuously fed with and powered by real-time data from the physical system.<\/p>\n<p>What makes the Tignis approach different is the introduction of a brand new, low-code programming language called Digital Twin Query Language (DTQL), the first language designed specifically to build machine analytics on digital twins.\u00a0 This puts the power of AI\/ML in the hands of process engineers and helps them achieve process improvements not previously possible\u2026without requiring them to write a line of software. Engineers now can utilize surrogate machine learning models that are more accurate and up to one million times faster than traditional physics-based simulations. Thanks to DTQL and the broader PAICe product suite from Tignis, process engineers can now leverage all the historical data they have collected and convert their deep expertise into machine learning-based predictive models that can be easily deployed and managed across their entire process ecosystem. The outcome is quicker production, better quality control and faster time to market. In essence, the Tignis PAICe product suite gives the world\u2019s process and operations engineers super-powers so they can do their job of keeping the factories working at peak performance better than ever before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TIGNIS AT WORK IN REAL-WORLD USE CASES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To put the power of the Tignis platform into practice, let\u2019s take the example of the semiconductor manufacturing industry. The ongoing global shortage of semiconductor chips is impacting a host of industries, from phones to laptops to cars to smart appliances to equipment in hospitals. According to Goldman Sachs, the chip shortage could reduce U.S. GDP by as much as 1% in 2021. To make matters worse, the U.S. share of global semiconductor manufacturing capacity has dropped to 12% today from 37% in 1990, according to a study by the Boston Consulting Group. To make the US competitive in this industry, in addition to the financial capital which is expected from the recently passed bill at the US Senate, the semiconductor industry will need new technologies that help accelerate operational efficiency. Tignis\u2019 PAICe Maker can be a key enabler to drive the next phase of innovation in semiconductor manufacturing. Therefore, it is not surprising that Synopsys and Tokyo Electron have elected to use the Tignis platform to optimize their processes. However, the applicability of Tignis\u2019 technology is not limited to the semiconductor industry as evidenced by the usage of the Tignis PAICe Product Suite at energy companies such as Optimum Energy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CONCLUSION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To date, the IoT and IIoT have largely focused on connecting more devices to the Internet. This has very little actual business value unless the IoT\/IIoT data can be ingested, validated, then used to drive measurable\u00a0business value from productivity gains, better yields, improved uptime, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Tignis and the emerging field of AI+X (in this case the laws of physics) and Digital Twins running in the cloud while controlling real-world systems can enable the full potential of AI\/ML to move from the digital domain to the analog\/physical domain.<br \/>\nTo unlock this potential, the Tignis approach is anchored on the following key principles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0 \u00a0Instrumenting the physical world to enable data collection and aggregation<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0Creating\u00a0a high-precision state model for a complex system<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0Building a graph of how the machines are interconnected end-to-end<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0Ingesting massive amounts of sensor data from each machine in the process<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0Enriching and validating the raw data with metadata to validate the plausibility<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0Leveraging the \u201cDigital Twin\u201d to enable a new level of AI-based process control<br \/>\n\u2022 \u00a0 \u00a0Using Tignis DTQL to enable this entire flow in a no-code \/ low code approach<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In essence, the Tignis platform has put Machine Learning in the hands of process engineers who have never had access to it until now.\u00a0 A variety of industries from semiconductor manufacturing to energy to automotive and transportation systems will now be able to leverage Machine Learning-based control algorithms to outperform classic process control and deliver process outcomes that were out of the realm of traditional possibilities. Some of the harshest, most labor-intensive backbreaking tasks out there such as weed abatement and harvesting crops in farming will be automated by AI\/ML controlling fleets of heavily instrumented cyber-physical purpose-built robots. All these robots will have \u201cdigital twins\u201d ingesting their real-time data sets, track their performance, and provide control stimulus.\u00a0 Human operators will be used to address anomalies.\u00a0 Much work remains to realize this grand vision of increased automation and productivity, but the Tignis AIPC suite has taken a great leap forward to democratize the full potential of AI-based process control with Digital Twins for the IIoT.\u00a0 Please visit www.tignis.com for more reading.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>About the author:<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0Chris Rust is the founding partner of\u00a0<\/em><em>Clear Ventures<\/em><em>. 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