Energy infrastructure generates massive operational data. Foundry helps companies monitor assets, optimize operations, and maintain compliance across distributed systems.
Energy and utility companies operate complex infrastructure spread across large geographic areas—power plants, transmission lines, substations, pipelines, wells, refineries. All of this infrastructure generates operational data from SCADA systems, sensors, meters, and control systems.
That operational data sits alongside maintenance records, asset registries, compliance documentation, work orders, and financial systems. Getting value from this data requires connecting it and building applications that help operators make decisions quickly.
Foundry excels at integrating operational technology (OT) data with enterprise systems. It handles the volume and velocity of sensor data while providing the security controls needed for critical infrastructure.
Energy infrastructure includes expensive, critical assets—turbines, transformers, compressors, pipelines. These assets need continuous monitoring to detect degradation before failures occur.
We build pipelines that process sensor data, equipment telemetry, and inspection results. Workshop applications show asset health dashboards, anomaly detection, predictive maintenance schedules, and historical reliability trends.
When sensor readings indicate potential problems, operators see alerts with context—similar historical events, maintenance history, spare parts availability, criticality to operations. This helps prioritize response and prevent cascading failures.
Electric utilities need real-time visibility into grid operations—generation capacity, transmission loads, substation status, outage locations. This data comes from SCADA, outage management systems, AMI meters, and weather monitoring.
Foundry integrates these sources to provide unified operational views. During storms or equipment failures, operators see affected infrastructure, customer impact, crew locations, and restoration priorities in one application instead of switching between multiple systems.
Oil and gas operators manage production across many wells, pipelines, and processing facilities. Optimizing production requires understanding equipment performance, throughput constraints, maintenance schedules, and market conditions.
We integrate production data, facility sensors, maintenance systems, and commodity pricing to build optimization applications. Production engineers can model scenarios, identify bottlenecks, and plan interventions based on complete operational and economic context.
Energy companies face extensive regulatory requirements—environmental monitoring, safety reporting, pipeline integrity management, NERC CIP compliance. Meeting these requirements demands accurate data and audit trails.
Foundry's data lineage and documentation capabilities help with compliance. Every data point in a regulatory report traces back to source systems. When regulations change, you update pipeline logic with full version control and validation.
For industries like nuclear power with especially stringent requirements, Foundry's comprehensive audit logging and access controls satisfy regulatory scrutiny.
When incidents occur—pipeline leaks, power outages, equipment failures—response teams need immediate access to relevant information. Which assets are affected? What's the customer impact? Where are response crews? What's the weather forecast?
We build emergency response applications that aggregate real-time operational data with asset information, GIS mapping, crew management, and communication systems. Incident commanders see everything needed for coordinated response without calling multiple departments for information.
Utilities integrating renewable energy face forecasting and balancing challenges. Solar and wind generation varies with weather. Storage systems need optimal charge/discharge scheduling. Traditional generation must ramp to compensate.
Foundry can integrate weather forecasts, renewable generation data, demand predictions, and market prices to support grid balancing decisions. Operators get visibility into the factors affecting supply and demand across their entire portfolio.
Energy infrastructure runs on industrial control systems that weren't designed for easy data export. SCADA systems, DCS platforms, and specialized equipment often use proprietary protocols or require careful integration to avoid disrupting operations.
We've integrated Foundry with various industrial systems—OPC UA for standard protocols, historian databases for time-series data, API gateways where direct system access isn't appropriate. The approach depends on system capabilities and operational constraints.
For critical systems, we typically replicate data rather than querying production systems directly. This ensures analytics workloads don't impact operational systems that can't tolerate latency.
Energy infrastructure is critical infrastructure. Cyber security requirements are strict and getting stricter. Any system connecting to operational technology needs rigorous security controls.
Foundry deployments for energy typically involve network segmentation, air-gapped environments for the most sensitive systems, comprehensive access controls, and extensive audit logging. We work with your security and compliance teams to implement appropriate controls.
Energy and utility Foundry implementations often start with asset management or operational visibility use cases. We connect data from key systems, build the foundational ontology, and create applications that demonstrate value.
Once initial applications prove successful, the data foundation supports additional use cases—compliance reporting, predictive maintenance, emergency response, or optimization applications all build on the same integrated data platform.
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