The Tinteon platform is a plant-edge inference runtime, a plant orchestrator with a policy engine, the Coatwin twin, and a cloud or on-prem training loop. Agents perceive from spectrophotometers, cameras, inline rheology, mill and dispenser PLCs, lab data and MES, predict fineness, viscosity, Delta-E, hiding power, contamination and fill faults, and act through guarded connectors.
Illustrative scenario: Plant run · one architectural deep tint base from dosing to pallet · bead mill, let-down tank, tint station, filling line. Not a measured run.
Perceive the raw material, mill base and batch; plan disperse, let-down, tint, fill and inspect; run with adaptive dispersion and tint control; sense and predict color, fineness, rheology and contamination; optimize yield, rework, waste, solvent, energy and takt; flag off-color and off-spec risk; log; retrain.
Spectrophotometers, line-scan and RGB cameras, inline rheology, mill and disperser controls, tint dispensers, filling scales, robots, MES and quality systems are normalized into one plant event bus at the edge, with DeepStream and Holoscan handling the high-rate streams.
Fine-tuned color, gloss, hiding-power and contamination vision and spectral color-match models, dispersion and fineness, tint-dosing and rheology models, plus time-series prognostics for mill, dispenser and filling equipment, served with TensorRT and Triton.
Retrieves formulas, color standards, quality specs and VOC rules with citations, asks the agents for recommendations, runs constraint checks, rehearses high-impact moves on Coatwin and applies the autonomy policy.
Approved actions go back through OT connectors inside tag, rate, magnitude and retint limits. Every action and every formulator or color-matcher correction becomes a labeled event for the training loop.
Every Tinteon run is an ordered, inspectable sequence. This is run_scn_01, an illustrative scenario: Plant run · one architectural deep tint base from dosing to pallet · bead mill, let-down tank, tint station, filling line. Scenario complete · batch inside spec · one human approval at the tint station.
Plant Orchestrator · Pulled the formula, the customer color standard and its tolerance, the viscosity and solids spec, the raw-material lot records and the product's VOC limit from the coatings MES and the lab system; locked the target envelope for the run.
Plant Orchestrator · Simulated 24 candidate dispersion, let-down and tint paths on the Coatwin as-made twin; ranked them on predicted Delta-E, fineness margin, viscosity, solvent use, energy and takt, and discarded every candidate that moved outside the customer tolerance or the VOC limit.
Dose-and-Disperse · Held mill energy, media temperature and residence to the predicted fineness curve from mill power and spectral reflectance, trimming inside the formula window instead of grinding to a fixed time and checking the Hegman gauge afterward.
Letdown-and-Thin · Predicted viscosity from inline rheology, temperature and solids during let-down and converged on spec with two resin additions and one solvent addition instead of the standing four, inside the formula window; no stability risk was flagged.
Tint-and-Color · Read the batch's spectral curve against the customer standard, predicted the colorant additions and dosed the first pass; the draw-down read inside tolerance on Delta-E after one addition, with one retint still available under the declared limit.
Defect-and-Inspect · 12 camera and spectral streams at the plant edge: color, gloss, hiding power, fineness and seed checks on the batch, fill-weight and label checks on every pail; two seeds were attributed to one filter cartridge and Filter-and-Fill scheduled the change.
Plant Orchestrator · The lowest-solvent candidate wanted a second colorant addition beyond the declared retint limit to tighten Delta-E further. Held for the shift color-matcher, who kept the customer tolerance untouched and approved one bounded addition with a tighter draw-down check.
Filter-and-Fill · Filtered through the fresh cartridge and filled pails to exact weight using fill-weight and foam feedback from inspection; the filler corrected upstream instead of rejecting downstream.
Robot-and-Handling · Moved filled pails to the pallet inside the declared safety zone with a simulation-validated handling policy; one pallet-pattern change was executed after the zone check cleared.
Quality-and-Conformance · Batch released: raw-material lots, grind profile, let-down moves, colorant additions and spectral curves, inspection outcomes, VOC and solvent use and every human decision written to the batch genealogy and checked against spec.
Every tool invocation, argument and result is written to an immutable, human-readable log, and every reasoning step is expandable. Nothing about a run is hidden from the plant. The log below is the scenario run, not a measured one.
Goal, plan, thought, action, observation, exactly as the orchestrator would record it.
Disperse batch B-4471 to Hegman fineness, let it down to viscosity spec, tint it inside Delta-E of standard STD-2210, filter and fill it to exact weight and release it with full genealogy.
Simulate the whole batch on the twin first. Lead with fineness so the let-down gets the right mill base and the tint station gets the right color strength. Keep the customer tolerance and the VOC limit as hard constraints. Let the dispenser converge only inside the declared retint limit; hold anything beyond it for a human.
The standing practice grinds to a fixed time, lets down by four additions and tints by draw-down loops. With live fineness and viscosity prediction and a spectral color-match model the batch can land on the first pass. The saving is rework, colorant and solvent, not tolerance: the customer standard is never a candidate for optimization.
twin.simulate(candidates=24) → path #9: Hegman on target in one grind, three let-down additions, one colorant pass, lowest predicted solvent and energy per batch, takt met.
Path #9 wants a second colorant addition beyond the declared retint limit to tighten Delta-E further. The policy engine routes that single move to the shift color-matcher and permits the other seven writes.
Execute path #9 at the bounded stage: mill energy, let-down dosing and the first colorant pass proceed; inspection runs continuously; the extra addition waits.
Approval granted at 08:24:02 with the tolerance untouched and a tighter draw-down check. Two seeds were attributed to filter cartridge F-2 and Filter-and-Fill scheduled the change with a 40 second hold.
Scenario complete. The batch is released with raw-material lots, grind profile, let-down moves, colorant additions, spectral curves, inspection outcomes, VOC and solvent use and the human decision in the genealogy. No measured plant result is claimed; this is the run the platform is designed to execute.
A draw-down is read in seconds, a filling line moves hundreds of pails an hour and the mills never stop, so Tinteon's inference runs beside the equipment and keeps working if the cloud does not.
| Workload | Where |
|---|---|
| Spectral and vision inspection, control inference | Line edge |
| Orchestrator, policy engine, audit log | Plant edge |
| Training and fine-tuning | DGX/HGX, cloud or on-prem GPUs (planned) |
| Coatwin twin and color and rheology simulation | OVX-class or cloud GPUs (planned) |
| Synthetic rare-fault generation | GPU cloud (planned) |
| RAPIDS analytics, model governance | Cloud or private cloud |
Coatwin couples GPU-accelerated spectral color-match prediction and dispersion and rheology simulation with the live plant state, so a dispersion, let-down and tint path is rehearsed before raw materials, mill time and line hours are spent.
Candidate paths are ranked on predicted Delta-E, fineness margin, viscosity, solvent use, energy and takt. Anything outside the customer tolerance or the VOC limit is discarded before it is ever proposed.
Optimized setpoints are handed to Dispex, Rheon and Tintra. Distilled surrogates run at the edge for on-line envelope checks.
Twin-versus-actual drift is measured on every batch and recalibrates the simulation. Validated synthetic rare faults harden every model.
A tint station reads a draw-down in seconds and a filling line moves hundreds of pails an hour, so perception has to be local and fast. Tinteon runs GPU inference at the plant edge and keeps training, simulation and optimization in the cloud, in a private cloud or on-prem. Items marked planned are on the roadmap, not running.
8 to 24 camera and sensor streams per line through DeepStream pipelines and TensorRT color, gloss, hiding-power, contamination and fill models; Holoscan synchronizes spectrophotometers, line-scan cameras, inline rheology, mill power and fill-weight streams at the plant edge. Design target: 50 to 150 ms per frame.
Vision, spectral, time-series and coatings-knowledge models behind one plant router, with version routing by product family, colorant system and line. Design target: sub-second recommendations for operators, sub-250 ms holds for filling and inspection.
Spectral color-match, dispersion and fineness, rheology and contamination models fine-tuned on batch telemetry, images and supervised color-matcher corrections; NeMo-based coatings reasoning. Design target: 2,000 to 5,000 GPU-hours per major model family.
The Coatwin as-made batch twin: GPU-accelerated spectral color-match prediction and dispersion and rheology simulation run before the batch, for color and grade changes and batch planning when a trial is expensive. Design target: 10,000 to 100,000 scenarios per design partner.
Rare off-color, seed, contamination, foam, label, hiding-power and fill-fault cases generated with domain randomization, marked synthetic and validated against real plant data before use.
Color-family batching, wash and changeover minimization, solvent and energy allocation and filling-line takt, recomputed on the GPU daily and intra-shift when the plant is disrupted.
Batch-genealogy, quality, equipment and rework telemetry ETL for feature generation, color correlation and cross-plant benchmarks on the GPU.
Drum, pail, tote and pallet handling, with perception and motion policies built and validated in simulation before they move a container.
A plant does not go from manual to bounded control in one step. Tinteon makes the stage explicit per loop, auditable and reversible at any time, and some decisions never leave the person.
| Stage | What the agent does | What the person does | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shadow | Predicts fineness, viscosity, Delta-E, hiding power, contamination and fill faults; writes nothing | Runs the plant as today; compares predictions to the lab, the spectrophotometer and PLC outcomes | First phase with every design partner |
| Assist | Recommends bounded mill, let-down, colorant, filtration and fill moves with the evidence | A formulator, color-matcher or quality manager approves or rejects each one | After accuracy is proven against the baseline |
| Bounded | Writes low-risk dispersion, tinting and inspection setpoints inside documented formula, tolerance, VOC, equipment and rollback limits | Approves anything above the limits; reviews the shift record | After the quality and ROI gates agreed up front |
| Exceptions | Escalates anything outside its envelope, any move against a customer standard or VOC limit, and release decisions | Always decides these; the agent never does | Permanent |
Two agents will want the same actuator. The orchestrator arbitrates on the run goal, with the customer color standard, the VOC limit and a clean fill above everything, and the handoff is logged like any other step.
Yield-and-Takt wants to defer the filter cartridge change to the shift break so the filling line stays on takt and the next color family starts on time.
Filter-and-Fill requires the change now because inspection attributed two seeds to the loaded cartridge. Contamination in a released pail is a customer complaint.
Product conformance outranks takt under every run goal. The cartridge change wins the actuator; the request to defer is logged with its score and the reason it lost.
Yield-and-Takt recovers the schedule by pulling the next batch's wash earlier and moving a lighter color family ahead. Takt is met without filling through a loaded cartridge.
Each agent owns a stage of the plant, a bounded tool set and a measured outcome. They negotiate for shared actuators through the orchestrator, never directly. Seven ship inside the six products; two arrive with the Plant tier, and the knowledge agent has no write tools at all.
Dosing, dispersion, milling, fineness, color development
Reads mill power, media temperature, residence time and spectral reflectance against the formula and holds mill energy, media load, temperature and residence at target, so the mill base reaches Hegman fineness and color strength on the first pass instead of being re-milled after a gauge check.
Design scope: fineness and color strength on target, no re-mill
Ships in: Dispex
Let-down, thinning, solids, viscosity
Fuses inline rheology, temperature, solids and mix power to predict viscosity and rheological behavior, then controls let-down, thinning and solids inside the formula window to converge on spec with the fewest additions and the least solvent.
Design scope: viscosity on spec without overshoot, less solvent
Ships in: Rheon
Tinting, colorant dosing, spectrophotometric color match, Delta-E
Takes the batch's spectral curve and the target standard, predicts the colorant additions that land inside Delta-E tolerance, sequences them under retint and additive limits and converges on the first pass, encoding the color-matcher's craft as a model that improves with every match.
Design scope: Delta-E inside tolerance first time, retint limits held
Ships in: Tintra
Filtration, seeds and contamination, exact-weight filling
Controls filtration and filling to exact weight without foam, spills or contamination, coordinates filling holds with inline inspection and balances filling-line takt, so finished product leaves clean, on weight and labeled.
Design scope: exact fill weight, no contamination or fill faults
Ships in: Palleon
Color, gloss, hiding power, fineness, contamination, fill and label faults
Fuses spectrophotometer, line-scan and RGB streams at the plant edge to score color, gloss, hiding power, fineness, seeds, foam and fill and label faults on every batch and container, flags off-color and off-spec risk early enough to hold or correct, and feeds each labeled fault back to the color, dispersion and rheology models.
Design target: 50 to 150 ms per-frame decisions, sub-250 ms holds
Ships in: Specton
Color, rheology, stability, batch quality
Predicts finished-batch color, rheology and stability across temperature and shear from the dispersion, let-down and tint outcomes, and proposes the formula and process moves that protect quality before the batch is released.
Design scope: color and rheology quality predicted before release
Ships in: Rheon
Yield, rework, waste, solvent and VOC, energy, line balancing
Prices every candidate move in re-tints, re-mills, liters of solvent, kilograms of VOC and kilowatt-hours, sequences batches by color family and wash burden, places changeovers and balances the moving line so takt is met without starving the filling line.
Design scope: yield up, rework, solvent and energy down
Ships in: Plant tier
Drum, pail, tote and packaging handling
Drives drum, pail, tote and pallet handling and packaging with perception and motion policies validated in simulation first, inside safety zones, with audited actions and operator approval. It starts with constrained cells and does not claim plant-wide robotic labor.
Design scope: constrained handling cells, safety zones, approvals
Ships in: Palleon
Right-first-time, non-conformance, batch genealogy, traceability
Builds the batch genealogy: raw-material lots, grind profile, let-down moves, colorant additions, spectral curves, inspection outcomes, VOC and solvent use and every human decision, and gates release against the product spec, the customer color standard and the plant's quality procedures.
Design scope: complete, immutable release records
Ships in: Plant tier
Grounded formula, color-standard and procedure questions
Answers formulators', color-matchers' and quality managers' questions over formulas, color standards, ISO 9001 and customer quality specs, VOC and REACH rules and genealogy procedures, with a citation on every answer. It has no write tools and cannot act on the plant.
Design rule: every answer cites a source; no write tools
Ships in: Every tier
Planning, arbitration, human approval, twin rehearsal
Plans the run, rehearses high-impact moves on the Coatwin twin, arbitrates between agents that want the same actuator, enforces the autonomy stage per loop and routes anything above the site threshold to a named human. Grounds its reasoning in the plant's formulas, color standards and quality procedures through cited retrieval.
Design rule: every write policy-checked, every output cited
Ships in: Every tier
The numbers Tinteon is engineered against, from the GPU utilization plan.
Design targets from the GPU utilization plan, all marked aspirational in the architecture. Nothing on this page is a measured plant result; measurements start when the first design-partner line runs in shadow mode.
There is no SDK to download yet. What design partners get is the integration surface: connectors, an autonomy policy declared per loop, and an audit record for every reading, recommendation, write and approval. This is the shape of one record, illustrative.
// one write, as the audit log would hold it
{
"run": "run_scn_01",
"step": "tint.match",
"agent": "agent.tint_color",
"stage": "bounded",
"action": { "tool": "dispenser.write", "tag": "TINT2.COLORANT_B" },
"limits": { "max_addition": "declared per colorant", "retints": "1 remaining" },
"evidence": ["spectro.read_curve", "colorant.predict_dose"],
"citation": "std:STD-2210 tolerance v4 §2",
"policy": "permitted",
"models": { "color_match": "versioned", "policy": "versioned" },
"human": null,
"outcome": "inside Delta-E tolerance · one retint remaining"
}The three people in a coatings plant whose week changes when the process runs itself, and what each of them needs from Tinteon.
Owns production rate, quality, rework and yield, waste, solvent and energy, and compliance. Wants a plant that holds color and spec at higher rate with fewer interventions, and a number that justifies the spend.
Owns formulas, dispersion, tint and color-match process windows and yield. Approves and corrects the agents in assist mode; those corrections train the models.
Owns product quality under ISO 9001 and customer color standards, color and contamination conformance, VOC and REACH compliance, and batch genealogy. Needs every action grounded, cited and written to an immutable record.
IT/OT and EHS leads approve the deployment. There are no customer quotes on this site yet; design partners will speak for themselves when they choose to.
Tinteon reads and writes through the systems already on the floor. No parallel historian, no new HMI, no rip-and-replace. Connectors are built against each design partner's stack first; long-tail integrations are out of scope for the first release.
PLC and controls of dispersers, bead, basket and horizontal mills, with mill power, media temperature and residence telemetry
Setpoint reads, guarded writes, interlocks untouched
Tint dispensers and colorant dosing systems
Colorant additions inside declared retint and additive limits
Spectrophotometers, draw-down cameras and color-standard libraries
Spectral curves and Delta-E in; cited matches out
Inline rheometers and viscometers, temperature and solids sensors, LIMS results
Continuous viscosity and stability state
Filtration skids, filling lines, fill-weight scales, labelers
Telemetry in; fill-weight and hold commands inside approved windows
Multi-camera and spectral stations for color, gloss, hiding power, seeds, foam, fill and label faults
Frames, fault events, hold recommendations
Orders, formulas, color standards, product specs, batch genealogy
Targets in, release records out
Plant and asset meters, solvent and VOC accounting; Isaac-driven drum, pail and tote cells
Hard constraints for scheduling; bounded handling
Tinteon writes to production equipment in a chemical plant. Every capability is scoped, every write is policy-checked, every output is cited, and every action is written to an append-only audit log the plant owns.
| Item | Scope | Status |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 Type I | Cloud control plane | QUEUED Roadmap, first 6 months |
| SOC 2 Type II | Cloud control plane | QUEUED Roadmap, 6 to 12 months |
| ISO 9001 · VOC and REACH · customer color standards | Grounding and record-keeping | RUNNING Design basis for retrieval and the audit log |
| Per-tenant isolation | Data, memory, models | RUNNING Design rule |
| On-prem deployment | Formula-sensitive producers | RUNNING Design option |
Tinteon supports your quality and VOC records. It is not a certification and it does not replace your quality system or your permit.
One policy model, one audit trail and one set of yield, rework, waste, solvent, energy and color benchmarks across every plant in the group, with each site's formulas, color standards and tolerance models kept private to that site.
The questions plant directors, formulators, color-matchers and quality managers ask in the first meeting.
Only at the autonomy stage your plant has set, and only to an explicit allow-list of low-risk loops inside documented limits. Every design partner starts in shadow mode, where Tinteon predicts and writes nothing. Assist mode follows, where a formulator or color-matcher approves each recommendation. Bounded autonomy on dispersion, tinting and inspection loops comes after the quality and ROI gates agreed up front.
They are not optimization variables. The customer standard and its tolerance, the VOC and solvent limits under your permit and the batch release decision stay with your quality procedures and your people. Tinteon reads them, cites them and writes every reading to an immutable audit log attached to the batch genealogy. It is grounded in ISO 9001, VOC and REACH and customer color standards; it is not a certification and does not replace your quality system.
Tinteon sits above your existing automation as a supervisory layer. If it stops, the plant keeps running on its current mill, dispenser and filling-line control and the interlocks it already has. A Tinteon outage degrades the plant to the way it runs today, not to a stop.
The first phase is shadow mode on one line: Tinteon reads your spectrophotometer, mill and dispenser history, inline rheology, lab results and MES while you run the plant as usual, and we measure its predictions against your lab, your draw-downs and PLC outcomes. Recommendations start when accuracy is proven against that baseline, and improve as plant-specific history and color-matcher corrections accumulate.
Formulas, color standards, tolerance models and raw-material data are tenant-scoped and never used to train another customer's models. Retrieval is multi-tenant isolated and permission-aware. Cross-plant learning, where a customer opts in, is federated and IP-isolated. On-prem deployment is available for producers protecting sensitive formulas.
You are, the same as with any control strategy. That is why every write is policy-checked, bounded, logged and reversible, every output carries a citation to the formula, standard or procedure it relied on, and anything above your threshold waits for a named approver. The audit log records the request, the reasoning, the limits applied and the human decision.
As a design partner, on one line, with one hard metric: Delta-E first-time-right rate and retints, re-mills and mill energy, solvent per batch and viscosity variance, or contamination and fill rejects. We instrument the line in shadow mode, measure the baseline, move to assist mode when accuracy is proven, and expand only when the number holds.
Full multi-module autonomy across the whole plant, long-tail integrations beyond the design partners' stacks, and self-serve onboarding. The first release is one wedge workflow, its connectors, the agent loop with human checkpoints, the review console and the assurance-grade quality and VOC audit log.
One line, one baseline, shadow mode first. We will show you the run record before anything is written.
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