A live digital twin of every tank, one step ahead of every batch, on the systems you already run
FermentDT is an AI supervisory control system (a digital twin) that plugs into the PLC/SCADA you already run, giving your team a layer of foresight and real-time insight into every fermentation.
- Vendor-neutral
- Software-only
- No rip-and-replace
The problem
The data is there. The foresight is not.
Today, keeping a batch on track takes people: pulling samples, reading trends and adjusting tanks one at a time. Every decision waits on the last lab result, so teams are always reacting to where the batch was, not where it’s heading.
By the time a problem shows up in a sample, it’s often too late to save the batch. A stuck or spoiled ferment means lost product and wasted feedstock, energy and labour, plus a tank tied up for days and deliveries missed.
- Stuck, sluggish or contaminated fermentsare found after the damage is done.
- Nobody can sample every tank every hourso the values that matter most are measured least.
- Consistency depends on who’s on shiftand on 2 a.m. cellar checks.
- Knowledge lives in one expert’s headso it is hard to scale and replicate.
From hindsight to foresight
- Problems not found until samples are processed→Drift caught early, before it becomes a loss
- Lab values sampled by hand→Soft sensors infer them continuously
- Holding a static setpoint→Steering to a target curve
- An alarm after the fact→A recommended correction, confirmed by the operator
The whole loop, in under a minute.
Soft sensors inferring what the instruments cannot measure, drift flagged early, and the controller steering the batch back onto the target curve.
How it works
Four moves, around the clock
FermentDT runs a continuous supervisory loop over every tank. It reads, predicts, decides and steers — then reads again, a few seconds later, for as long as the batch is alive.
Every batch will make your model smarter.
What it means for you
Better batches, fewer surprises
Every run is steered to the same ideal curve, so your best batch becomes your standard.
Catch contamination and temperature excursions before they spread.
Less downtime and manual sampling, fewer overnight surprises.
FermentDT predicts and recommends; it never moves your plant without confirmation.
Vendor-neutral software on your existing PLC/SCADA. No new hardware, no capex wall.
Every batch will make your model smarter. Your IP, captured and improved batch after batch.
Where it sits
Adds intelligence. Replaces nothing.
FermentDT adds four capabilities to the PLC/SCADA already running your fermentation: soft sensors, a digital twin, model-predictive control and machine learning.
Keep everything you run today. FermentDT adds the intelligence on top.
A fundamental shift
From fixed setpoints to continuous steering
Today, most fermentations hold a fixed setpoint and are checked periodically. FermentDT tracks every batch against its ideal curve continuously, around the clock, making small corrections early so each run lands on the same end-point.
One number to hold. The batch wanders around it and nobody knows the end-point is wrong until it's too late to act.
● A small early correction keeps the batch tracking the ideal path — and lands it on the same end-point, every run.
No new probes
Measure what you can't put a sensor on
Neural soft sensors turn the cheap signals you already log into the lab values you'd otherwise sample by hand — continuously, with nothing new in the tank.
+ digital twin
01—06 · What’s in the solution
The intelligence layer
Six capabilities, one engine — the full loop, packaged.
See it run
Every level, colour and bubble is a number the model computed
Scrub a whole-vat ferment. Operators we work with see it against their own tanks.
The lab →Your best batch starts with a conversation.
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