Expert-level thermal process guidance delivered to operators in real-time. Enhance performance, reduce fire risk, and lower energy costs — all from basic science, not black-box AI.
Operators face inconsistent decisions across shifts, rising energy costs, quality variability, and fire risk. Adaptive Coaching solves all four — simultaneously.
Inconsistent decisions across shifts. Knowledge gaps when experienced operators leave. Difficulty training new operators to achieve optimal performance.
Rising expenses, inefficient process parameters, lack of real-time optimization. Operators default to high temperatures because it's "safe."
Manual adjustments causing variations. Reactive rather than proactive control. Product density swings between shifts.
Operators tend to use one point of control — temperature. Real-time psychrometric calculations provide safer, multi-variable guidance.
Advanced mathematical algorithms based on mass-energy balance — not machine learning that can't explain itself. Real intelligence based on basic science.
Connects to existing plant systems. Intuitive operator interfaces providing immediate expert suggestions. No rip-and-replace.
Real-time process intelligence platform delivering expert coaching to operators during live production.
Direct PLC integration with your existing plant systems. Read process variables in real-time.
Dynamic mass-energy balance calculations. Psychrometric modeling of your thermal process — air, water, food, heat transfer.
Deliver precise operational guidance to operators. Multi-variable suggestions — not just temperature — for safety, quality, and efficiency.
Each iteration tightens control. Product density variation drops. Energy consumption falls.
Puffed rice oven control — validated across 28,000+ data points.
"Adaptive Coaching has been a good tool for the operators. They have been using it as a tool to reassure the oven settings. The Adaptive Coaching suggestions are within a few points of the settings the operators are using. It will be nice to see where this technology goes."
— K.B., Process Technology Owner, CPG Snacks
Three categories of benefit — each tied to a specific Adaptive Coaching contribution.
Thermal processing across food, snacks, pharma, and CPG.
A joint venture between Process Partners and ChiAha — expert engineering knowledge meets advanced decision-support architecture.
Educator, consultant, and simulation tool developer. Founded Simulation Dynamics (SDI) in the early 1990s and coined "Discrete Rate Simulation." ChiAha represents his lifelong goal to distribute DRS benefits more widely — and Adaptive Coaching is its latest application.
Over 30 years of optimization and modeling experience delivered to consumer packaged goods manufacturers. Built the modeling discipline behind Adaptive Coaching's live psychrometric mass-energy balance.
A recognized expert in thermal food processing, Jim has supported food companies with technical expertise, process support, and production equipment for more than 43 years — working with Fortune 500 manufacturers and start-ups across the globe.
Holder of six U.S. patents including "No-Dry Coating Process for Sugar-Coated Food Products," "Method of Processing a Grain Product," and "Heat Recovery System." Contributing author for the chapters on Toasting, Drying, and Coating Dryers in the second and third editions of Breakfast Cereals and How They Are Made.
Nearly three decades inside Kellogg Company on the operating side of cereal and snack manufacturing — the voice of the plant operators Adaptive Coaching was built to support.
Brings deep Fortune 500 CPG operating experience to every Adaptive Coaching engagement, translating between the math of the model and the reality of the production floor.
Understand your process and challenges — equipment readiness, NAFP inspection, optional workshop.
Connect to the PLC to capture real-time operating behavior.
Build the psychrometric model for your process and deploy operator coaching.
Let's talk about what Adaptive Coaching can do for your operation.
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