We combine Consulting, Technology, and Deep Operational Expertise to Deliver End-to-End Digital Transformation.

What we do

Our strength lies in the fusion of deep consulting experience, process domain expertise, and digital execution excellence. This rare combination enables us to go beyond traditional digital transformation — we build AI agents that not only analyze but act.As a Digital Transformation Execution Partner (Dx-Ex Partner), we help process industries convert complex data and siloed digital initiatives into autonomous, real-time decision-making systems.

Dx. Consulting Services

Domain-Driven, Use Case-Centric, and Ready for Production

Our Dx Consulting Services are built to accelerate digital transformation for industrial enterprises—bridging the gap between operational challenges and scalable AI solutions.With deep roots in engineering sciences and industrial systems, we help clients chart transformation journeys that are both technically sound and business-aligned.

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Digital Transformation Consulting – Process Manufacturing

Tridiagonal.AI  is a trusted partner for successful manufacturing excellence, digital transformation strategy and implementation of digital / Industry 4.0 tech stacks in process manufacturing. Our process domain understanding, technology expertise and hands-on implementation experience enables us to take deeper view to devise sustainable Dx strategy and roadmap.

Core Expertise: Digital transformation for Production / Process Optimization, Energy Optimization, Quality Prediction,Predictive maintenance and Safety & Sustainability.

Reframing IT-OT Infrastructure

  • Understanding the scope (requirement): Current V/S Expected performance (IT-OT)
  • Whether or not the current infrastructure is I-4.0 ready
  • How the current data architecture looks like; Sensors, DCS/SCADA, etc.
  • Additional sensor Implementation for I 4.0 use cases
  • Whether the entity of Data Infra is OPC compliant/evaluating the communication protocols supported
  • Identification of IT-OT Data requirement Tech Stack
  • Designing ISA 95 compliant IT-OT architecture

Domains: MES, Historians, Industry Data Ops, IT-OT integration, Cloud infrastructure, Unified namespace architecture (UNS), ISA 95, Asset hierarchy

Dx Tech Stacks: IT-OT assessment, Advanced process control / AI-based Process control, Predictive Analytics, Energy Management (Scope 1 & 2), Digital workforce

Industry Data Ops is our specialized approach to managing and mobilizing industrial data across engineering, operations, and enterprise systems. Our focus is on enabling trusted, contextualized, and real-time data that powers AI-driven decision-making at scale.

Benchmarking few key performance metrics and Zone to Win- To define Vision, Mission, Goals, Digital Culture, Talent & Skills, Technology Leadership, etc.

  • Identifying the pain areas in Process manufacturing
  • Blueprinting Dx - Defining the Process Problem Statements – production/ process optimization, Maintenance, Quality, Safety, Sustainability
  • Creation of business Case for operational benefits

Operations Areas: Manufacturing planning & schedule, Quality, Overall yield, Zero defects, Energy optimization, OEE, etc.

Benefit Analysis and ROI

Financial Analysis - Projected Savings, Benefits report, ROI assessment

  • Creating the financial savings report-projected savings per asset/process
  • Business case(s) for various tech stack implementations for each identified areas (Process optimization, Maintenance, Quality, Safety, Sustainability)
  • Assessment of the required budget
  • Estimated savings in the CAPEX, OPEX
  • Dx investment planning for 5 years with IRR / NPV / Payback period calculations

For e.g. ROI, Pay-back period, Investment planning, Capex-Opex budget allocation

Dx Implementation Roadmap:

Develop Priority Matrix depending on the Digital Maturity Assessment, Availability of Assets, Process, People

  • Prioritizing the Business problems based on the savings, requirements and challenges
  • Identification of Dx Tech Stack(s) for implementation
  • Implementation plan and risk mitigation strategy
  • Change management
  • Industry 4.0 training needs identification
  • Cultural transformation roadmap

For e.g. Prioritisation matrix, Dx roadmap, Cultural transformation, Training

Project Management Consulting (PMC):

PMC for Implementation of Solution(s) – Continuous efforts for e.g., IT-OT integration, Sensor Placements, APC, APM, OTS, Digital Workforce, Others

  • Develop Scalability Framework
  • Implementation roll-out plan across different locations
  • Continuous Improvement - Gap Analysis and Scope of Improvement – KPIs, New / Advanced Use Cases
  • Evaluation of Usage of the solution implements
  • Post implementation benefit analysis/ ROI calculations
  • Identification of gaps in solutions that are implemented and rectification plan
  • Identification of Training needs
  • New Use Cases definition, New modeling framework, Advanced Analytics, etc.

PMC: Ensuring successful Dx implementation and post-implementation ROI’s




 

Reframing IT-OT Infrastructure

  • Understanding the scope (requirement): Current V/S Expected performance (IT-OT)
  • Whether or not the current infrastructure is I-4.0 ready
  • How the current data architecture looks like; Sensors, DCS/SCADA, etc.
  • Additional sensor Implementation for I 4.0 use cases
  • Whether the entity of Data Infra is OPC compliant/evaluating the communication protocols supported
  • Identification of IT-OT Data requirement Tech Stack
  • Designing ISA 95 compliant IT-OT architecture

Domains: MES, Historians, Industry Data Ops, IT-OT integration, Cloud infrastructure, Unified namespace architecture (UNS), ISA 95, Asset hierarchy

 

 

Benefit Analysis and ROI

Financial Analysis - Projected Savings, Benefits report, ROI assessment

  • Creating the financial savings report-projected savings per asset/process
  • Business case(s) for various tech stack implementations for each identified areas (Process optimization, Maintenance, Quality, Safety, Sustainability)
  • Assessment of the required budget
  • Estimated savings in the CAPEX, OPEX
  • Dx investment planning for 5 years with IRR / NPV / Payback period calculations

For e.g. ROI, Pay-back period, Investment planning, Capex-Opex budget allocation

Dx Implementation Roadmap
 

Develop Priority Matrix depending on the Digital Maturity Assessment, Availability of Assets, Process, People

  • Prioritizing the Business problems based on the savings, requirements and challenges
  • Identification of Dx Tech Stack(s) for implementation
  • Implementation plan and risk mitigation strategy
  • Change management
  • Industry 4.0 training needs identification
  • Cultural transformation roadmap

For e.g. Prioritisation matrix, Dx roadmap, Cultural transformation, Training

 

Project Management Consulting (PMC)
 

PMC for Implementation of Solution(s) – Continuous efforts for e.g., IT-OT integration, Sensor Placements, APC, APM, OTS, Digital Workforce, Others

  • Develop Scalability Framework
  • Implementation roll-out plan across different locations
  • Continuous Improvement - Gap Analysis and Scope of Improvement – KPIs, New / Advanced Use Cases
  • Evaluation of Usage of the solution implements
  • Post implementation benefit analysis/ ROI calculations
  • Identification of gaps in solutions that are implemented and rectification plan
  • Identification of Training needs
  • New Use Cases definition, New modeling framework, Advanced Analytics, etc.

PMC: Ensuring successful Dx implementation and post-implementation ROI’s




Process Optimization

With the increasing and dynamic market demands it is important to identify the opportunities for continuous improvement of the operations through real time optimization of the equipment and processes. With our deep domain expertise and process optimization know-how leverage the frameworks for improving the overall optimization strategies by making the appropriate control move to enhance the maintenance, planning and scheduling practices.

Core Expertise: Process optimization, Advanced process control (APC), Enhanced life of assets, Real time optimization (RTO), Energy optimization

Dx Tech Stacks: Imubit, Honeywell APC, Aveva, Siemens GPROMS

Advanced process control (APC)
  • Advanced process control for complex and dynamics chemical operations for autonomous operations
  • Integrated PID controllers for multivariate control strategy to dynamically respond to the process changes
  • Minimize process off-spec, enhanced quality control and reduced process variabilities

Techstacks:

  • Honeywell Forge, Aveva APC, Aspen DMC


    Deep learning process control
  • (minute by minute optimization)
    • Offers real time process control through complex analysis of MVs, CVs and DVs
    • Integrated non-linear inferentials for real time quality control and constrained objectives / targets
    • Accounting the impact of uncontrollable disturbances
    • Identifies the opportunity to optimize the processes every minute within the non-linear constrained environment

    Techstacks:

    • Reinforcement learning
    • Non-linear inferentials for quality prediction

 

Advanced Data Analytics

Tridiagonal Solutions bespoke solutions tailored to support the industry requirements leveraging the advanced capabilities such as digital twin, custom applications and connected analytics. Enhancing the analytics and visualization for the plant engineers and operators with improved decision making. These solutions are backed by our industry experts which helps the organizations to enable agile development at scale and better adoption through these utilities. Enhancing the current data science practise with 3D models with enhanced contextualization to enabling causalities through connected analytics using sequential modeling approach empowers the shop floor team to gain better insights from their data.

Core Expertise: Time series analytics, predictive analytics, digital twin, metadata modeling, connected analytics, smart Apps for Energy and process optimization

Dx Tech Stacks:AWS IOT Twinmaker, Azure Digital Twin, Cognite, VidyaTec, Seeq, Smart Applications

 
Digital Twin
  • Advanced 3D models-based visualization for the telemetry data modeling
  • Integrated data management – Timeseries, SAP, MES, ERP, AIMS, and others engineering information
  • Analyze the complete history of the processes and equipment
  • Knowledge graphs for better information management through metadata modeling

Techstacks:

  • Knowledge graphs
  • Master data management
  • Cognite, AWS, Azure, VidyaTec
 
Connected analytics
    • Mimic the plant conditions by connecting all the upstream and downstream equipment
    • Improve the decision making through equipment level correlations and causalities
    • Enhance the process and equipment reliabilities through sequential models

    Techstacks:

    Supervised ML techniques
    Boosting and bagging methodologies
    Seeq, Cognite, AWS, Azure
 
Smart Apps
  • Open source based tailored frameworks focused to provide the custom insights for point problems
  • Applications focused to accelerate the scalability and adoption
  • Built to deliver high value through physics based modeling for real time constraint modeling and optimization

Techstacks:

  • Python, scipy, Tensorflow, pytorch
  • Supervised and unsupervised based learning
  • Fisrt principles based mechanistic modeling
 
Deep Learning
  • Solutions leveraging neural networks for image processing and video analytics solving complex industrial problems
  • Leveraging artificial neural networks for fault detection through complex learning patterns
  • Digitization of offline scanned manufacturing records through OCR
  • Analyzing complex microstructures and visual quality inspection

Techstacks:

  • Deep learning frameworks – Tensorflow, Pytorch - CNNs, RNNs, GAN
  • Generative model, transformers - GPT-4 and others
 
Use Cases
  • Improving the decision making through connected analytics for CDU operations
  • Digital twin for complex refinery and petrochemical units
  • Plant wide optimization
  • Smart Apps for process/energy/utilities optimization for manufacturing companies
    • Compressors
    • Exchangers
    • Steam optimization
    • Energy management
    • Steam and condensate balance
  • Image analytics for safety measures
  • Complex material microstructure pattern prediction
  • Prediction of external cracks for metal casts

Process Modeling and Simulation

Tridiagonal.AI Chemical 4.0 practice leverages several technology stacks for developing the process simulators intended to enable better decision making for critical operations including startup/shutdown procedures, maintenance workflow strategies and planning and scheduling optimization. With dynamic simulators, improve the real-time process performance by understanding the dynamics through efficient and integrated visibility. Integrate the physics-based dynamic plant models mimicking the DCS controllers for effective control of critical conditions.

Core Expertise:

Time series analytics, predictive maintenance, soft-sensors, energy optimization, emission management, APM

Dx Tech Stacks:

AWS, Azure, Cognite, Seeq, Kelvin, Python, PySpark, R and others

Process Debottlenecking (Steady-state Simulation)

  • P&ID mapping and process flow simulators
  • Process troubleshooting and debottlenecking
  • Process stabilization
  • Design modification and process improvement studies
  • Heat integration and pinch analysis
  • Thermodynamics and process reconciliation

Techstacks: Aspen HYSYS, Honeywell UniSim, Siemens gPROMS

Dynamic Simulation (Operator Training Simulation)

  • Real-time plant simulators
  • Process benchmarking
  • Process operators training – plant control operations
  • Process improvement and benchmarking studies

Techstacks: Honeywell OTS, Yokogawa OTS, Emerson OTS, Aveva OTS

Process Optimization Simulator

  • Physics-informed simulators based on deep learning networks
  • Enhancing overall performance of the site to meet the cost/objective functions
  • Objective-oriented models intended to optimize the economic profits
  • Continuous production optimization to improve asset reliability, throughput, and energy efficiency

Techstacks: Imubit, Smart Optimizers

Virtual Reality (VR)

  • 3D training and simulations using VR
  • Enriched remote operations experience
  • Immersive assistance in remote maintenance workflows
  • Enhanced plant safety
  • Enhanced productivity through efficiency and smart operations.

Agentic AI Services

Domain-Driven, Use Case- Centric, and Ready for Production

Knowledge Graph as a Service (KGaaS) is a scalable, agent-driven platform that transforms siloed, unstructured, and structured industrial data into a semantically connected, intelligent knowledge network. Built on industry standards and ontologies, the platform enables next-gen applications in root cause analysis, process optimization, SOP automation, and decision augmentation.

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Industries

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Practice Heads

Empowering Excellence, Inspiring Growth
Praveen Kapse
Praveen Kapse
Vice President and BU Head

Mr. Praveen Kapse is Tridiagonal AI's Vice President – Global Strategy and Technology. He is leading the Manufacturing Excellence and Digital Transformation group as well. He has more than 23 years of experience working in the Technology domain across different industry verticals. His core competence involves conceiving strategies for successfully introducing new technologies and solutions, such as Industry 4.0 in the process manufacturing space. With a strong techno-commercial background, he has been implementing large digital transformation programs for various companies across the globe.

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Sandeep Kulkarni
Sandeep Kulkarni
Director - Program Management

Sandeep Kulkarni holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering with a specialization in Production Engineering and has completed advanced computing studies at CDAC. With over 28 years of extensive experience in operational excellence within the refinery, petrochemical, and chemical industries, he is a seasoned professional. His expertise spans process automation, end-to-end value chain integration, and digital transformation, including Industry 4.0 initiatives. Sandeep has led numerous projects for major clients such as Singapore Refinery, Petronas, ExxonMobil, Chevron, TOTAL, Shell, KOC, and Pertamina.

He leads a business unit of 100 engineering professionals, delivering state-of-the-art engineering services to global process industries through technology partners such as Honeywell, Emerson, Aveva, and Yokogawa. Sandeep has been instrumental in developing a collaborative engineering services ecosystem to support the digital transformation journey of process industry clients.

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Parth Sinha
Parth Sinha
Head of Data Science

Parthprasoon Sinha, Masters in chemical engineering with diverse cross industry experience supporting physics based data driven solutions. While leading the data science group in Tridiagonal solutions, has crafted several scalable data driven solutions for various initiatives. Has expertise in delivering projects focused on - predictive maintenance, energy management, process optimization and Gen AI.

Has delivered more than 50 projects globally, >50 Digital transformation workshops and others. Has capacity of delivering the bespoke solutions over multiple platforms - Cognite, Seeq, Kelvin, Databricks, AWS, Azure, Litmus Edge and others.

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Kedar Vechlekar
Kedar Vechlekar
Delivery Head DMO

Kedar Vechalekar brings over a decade of invaluable experience to his role as Delivery Head accomplished professional with a prestigious Master's in Technology from IIT Bombay, Kedar also holds a Bachelor's degree from Pune University, where he was honored with a Gold Medal. He is PMP certified and possesses extensive expertise in research, operator training simulators, dynamic and steady state simulations. Kedar has successfully delivered over 40 high-impact projects across the oil and gas, petrochemicals, polymers, green hydrogen, and fertilizer industries. Renowned for his leadership and precision, he excels in guiding teams to ensure the seamless delivery of complex projects. Kedar specializes in implementing cutting-edge technologies such as Gen AI to optimize time and effort for traditional tasks. His profound expertise and unwavering dedication drive the success and innovation at our company.

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Pradeep Shahu
Delivery Head Oil & Energy Group

A Chemical Engineer with 15+ years of extensive experience in Project management, refinery operations across multiple process units. Currently serving as a -- for the Oil & Gas vertical which involves data driven process optimization projects, AI based optimization, providing advanced technological solutions such as Gen AI, Agentic-AI, etc. Strong expertise in unit operations, turnaround management, project execution, and reliability improvement in the petroleum refining industry. Successfully led teams for refinery capacity expansion projects and implementation of digital transformation initiatives. Proficient in process optimization, troubleshooting, and energy management for operational excellence.

Skilled in identifying and implementing cost optimization strategies and reliability enhancement projects to ensure profitability and operational stability. 

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Why Tridiagonal.AI?

Team
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Team
300+ experts with masters and Ph.D’s in chemical engineering.
Consulting Expertise
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Consulting Expertise
Extending over 100 man-years globally to Fortune 500 clients.
Industrial Data Ops Solution
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Solutions
Tailored to optimize operations and decision-making.
Engagement models
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Engagement models
Flexible options including time and material, dedicated centers, and project-specific arrangements.
Value Creation
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Value Creation
Deploying best practices and methods to efficiently create and deliver value for customers.
Multi Skilled Expertise
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Multi Skilled Expertise
Team having exposure and expertise of developing scalable solutions across multiple platforms.

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