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Every Engineer On Shift
Is Your Best

AssetBlue is a domain-specialised SLM that captures how your best engineers reason — and makes that judgment available to every engineer, every shift. No sensors. No integrations. No waiting for a callback.

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Ranked Hypotheses
Boiler Tube Leakage · Unit 4
Economizer · BHEL 210MW · 1993 · Last OH: 8mo
#1Fly ash erosion — economizer, gas-facing
87% High confidence
#2Overheating from partial blockage
52% Probable
#3Soot blower impingement
28% Possible
The problem

Experts are retiring. Failures are accelerating. Costs are mounting.

Your best diagnosticians can only be in one place at a time — and they're leaving faster than the industry can replace them. Every unplanned shutdown is a reminder.

$0T¹
Lost annually to unplanned downtime across the world's 500 biggest companies
0%²
Of organisations consistently capture knowledge from departing retirees
0M³
Baby Boomers transitioning into retirement. 10,000 leave the workforce daily.
0+ days
Downtime per boiler tube leakage — millions lost per event.
$0K/hr
Typical cost of downtime for large industrial businesses in emerging markets
0%
Of failures hit without prior warning. On older units, every 2–3 months.
From the field

If the same problem happened at another thermal plant, we don't have access to that knowledge. We call NTPC, call BHEL, wait for callbacks.

Executive Engineer
Boiler Maintenance

A comprehensive list of failures of that particular equipment worldwide — that would be helpful.

Efficiency Engineer
Energy Manager

We have a history book only. If he has not faced such problems, he can go through that — he'll get some idea.

Senior Engineer
On how new engineers learn
The hard problem

Industrial reasoning breaks traditional AI.

Complexity explodes

Industrial systems are highly interconnected. As variable count rises, the space of possible causal structures grows too quickly for naive discovery.

Failure data is sparse

Critical assets don't fail often enough to generate rich training data. Real-world failure events are rare, uneven, and incomplete.

Black boxes don't earn trust

Classification models can label likely causes, but they can't show the reasoning path, causal mechanism, or evidence chain behind the answer.

Expertise doesn't scale

Traditional RCA methods like 5 Whys and FTA are powerful, but they remain manual, slow, and dependent on scarce experts.

¹ Siemens, The True Cost of Downtime, 2024. ² APQC “Great Retirement” survey. ³ Pew Research Center, “Baby Boomers Retire”, 2023. ⁴ AssetBlue field research, 2025. ⁵ ABB Value of Reliability survey. ⁶ AssetBlue field research, 2025.

The full spectrum

Not just when things break. When things don't look right.

The same reasoning engine that supports post-failure diagnosis helps engineers investigate anomalies before they become shutdowns.

Examine & Investigate
"This bearing sounds different."

An engineer opens AssetBlue, describes what they're seeing or hearing, and shares a photo or video. The system reasons through possible causes, retrieves similar patterns from prior cases, and helps the engineer investigate before the issue escalates.

The physical world does not speed up. Thinking can.
Anomaly InvestigationInvestigating
ObservationUnusual high-frequency vibration on ID Fan B
Visual evidence📷 2 photos uploaded · bearing housing
Similar patterns3 prior cases retrieved · 2 from same asset class
System suggestionCheck lubrication schedule · Compare vibration baseline
How it works

Structured reasoning. Not keyword search.

AssetBlue guides engineers through structured investigation using Fishbone, 5 Whys, Fault Tree, and FMEA — not as static templates, but as live reasoning paths.

Phase 01: Intake & Context
New Investigation
Equipment
Boiler Unit 4 · Economizer
Symptom
Steam leak detected during inspection
Voice
Photo
Text
Coach mode

Senior gets speed. Junior learns reasoning.

Most systems return an answer. Coach Mode walks junior engineers through the why — what to observe, what to rule out, why each question matters. Veterans move fast. Juniors build judgment. Same session. No mode to select.

Senior engineer view
Fly ash erosion · 87% · Gas-facing tubes
Jump to ranked hypotheses, cited evidence, action plan. Skip the explanation.
Junior engineer view
“Why gas-facing, not fireside?”
Walks through the mechanism, links to the failure case, explains how each answer changed the diagnosis.
Buyer objections

Four worries. Four answers.

What if the shift changes mid-investigation?

Cases persist across shifts

A Case survives shift changes, dead batteries, and interruptions. Any engineer can continue from where it stopped.

Case-based
What do we do with the output?

Every output has a next step

Every hypothesis includes the action, the owner, the priority, and whether it’s safe without supervisor sign-off.

Action-complete
How do we know it’s not making things up?

Every claim cites its source

Traceable to a case study, OEM standard, or technical reference. Tappable. Disputable.

Cited and verifiable
Will it work beyond our industry?

One asset model, many industries

Boilers recur across power, oil & gas, chemicals, steel, cement, pharma, and more. Model the asset deeply — every industry inherits it.

Horizontal reuse
Asset Coverage — V1

One corpus. Every industry where boilers are critical.

V1 is validated for industrial boilers — the highest-failure-frequency asset in every sector below. If your plant runs boilers, AssetBlue is ready today. Additional asset classes are in active development.

Thermal Power
Coal, gas & combined cycle plants
🔥 Boiler corpus active
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Cement Manufacturing
Rotary kilns & process heat
🔥 Boiler corpus active
Coal Mining & Processing
Wash plants & mine heating
🔥 Boiler corpus active
🛢
Oil & Gas Refining
Process steam generation
🔥 Boiler corpus active
♻️
Waste-to-Energy
Combustion & steam recovery
🔥 Boiler corpus active
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Biomass Energy
Biomass combustion plants
🔥 Boiler corpus active
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Heavy Manufacturing
Steel, glass, paper & automotive
🔥 Boiler corpus active
Thermal Power
Coal, gas & combined cycle plants
🔥 Boiler corpus active
🏭
Cement Manufacturing
Rotary kilns & process heat
🔥 Boiler corpus active
Coal Mining & Processing
Wash plants & mine heating
🔥 Boiler corpus active
🛢
Oil & Gas Refining
Process steam generation
🔥 Boiler corpus active
♻️
Waste-to-Energy
Combustion & steam recovery
🔥 Boiler corpus active
🌬
Biomass Energy
Biomass combustion plants
🔥 Boiler corpus active
⚙️
Heavy Manufacturing
Steel, glass, paper & automotive
🔥 Boiler corpus active
Thermal Power
Coal, gas & combined cycle plants
🔥 Boiler corpus active
🏭
Cement Manufacturing
Rotary kilns & process heat
🔥 Boiler corpus active
Coal Mining & Processing
Wash plants & mine heating
🔥 Boiler corpus active
🛢
Oil & Gas Refining
Process steam generation
🔥 Boiler corpus active
♻️
Waste-to-Energy
Combustion & steam recovery
🔥 Boiler corpus active
🌬
Biomass Energy
Biomass combustion plants
🔥 Boiler corpus active
⚙️
Heavy Manufacturing
Steel, glass, paper & automotive
🔥 Boiler corpus active
Thermal Power
Coal, gas & combined cycle plants
🔥 Boiler corpus active
🏭
Cement Manufacturing
Rotary kilns & process heat
🔥 Boiler corpus active
Coal Mining & Processing
Wash plants & mine heating
🔥 Boiler corpus active
🛢
Oil & Gas Refining
Process steam generation
🔥 Boiler corpus active
♻️
Waste-to-Energy
Combustion & steam recovery
🔥 Boiler corpus active
🌬
Biomass Energy
Biomass combustion plants
🔥 Boiler corpus active
⚙️
Heavy Manufacturing
Steel, glass, paper & automotive
🔥 Boiler corpus active

Questions from every plant visit.

Selecting pilot partners — power, oil & gas, manufacturing, mining & minerals

Describe the problem.
Let's reason through it together.

Request a demo. We'll walk you through a live diagnostic session in 30 minutes. Or request a pilot implementation with your asset class.

Or email us at info@assetblue.ai

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