Atlas Core
Atlas Core installs beside your existing control system, reads the data you already collect, and tells your operators the cheapest safe way to run the plant — every few minutes, all year. No new equipment. No cloud. No control handover.
Illustrative — real solver output from the shipped demo, run in simulate mode with no live plant connected. Savings at your site depend on tariff, storage and process flexibility.
One optimisation engine, two different jobs — a small service that runs your plant, and a modelling studio that designs it.
Reads live tags, solves your site’s model every few minutes, and recommends setpoints to your operators through the HMI they already use. Advisory only — Atlas never writes to a PLC.
For manufacturers, water utilities, and the system integrators who serve them.See a real solveImport your EPANET, SWMM, Raven or HEC-RAS model, design networks, set goals and constraints, run scenarios, and compare outcomes.
For engineers and consultancies doing capital planning and system design.Explore the platformThe three questions every engineer asks first — answered before you have to ask them.
There is no control path from Atlas to your PLC. Recommendations reach operators through your HMI, subject to your existing interlocks. The worst failure mode is no recommendation — which leaves the plant exactly as it runs today.
Atlas Core runs on-site in a single container. No cloud calls, no telemetry, no licence check-in. It reads your historian and answers your HMI. Nothing else.
OPC-UA out of the box — Ignition, Kepware, or any compliant server. Modbus, SQL historians, MQTT and CSV are configuration, not custom development.
Any process with equipment or storage that can shift in time, and a price that moves with it. New sectors are a document, not a rewrite.
Multi-pump scheduling against tank storage, minimum flows, and a demand charge.
Pre-cooling against a comfort band — timed to when outdoor air makes the chiller efficient, not just when power is cheap.
Multi-compressor scheduling against a receiver, accounting for how a fuller receiver costs more to push into.
Multi-boiler scheduling against a steam accumulator — including which boiler to run first when they don’t turn down the same way.
Charge and discharge scheduling against a time-of-use tariff and a demand charge, with round-trip efficiency.
Depot charger scheduling to hit a departure deadline without spiking the demand charge — and accounting for how cold weather derates the chargers.
Refrigeration, wastewater aeration, district heating and cooling, and CHP fit the same pattern. If your plant has equipment that runs on a schedule and a storage buffer of any kind, we can very likely map it.
Any engineered system with decisions to make, constraints to satisfy, and data to work with is an Atlas fit — the platform doesn't impose a domain ceiling.
Pressure, pumps, storage, and demand — coordinated as one optimised system.
EPANET hydraulic modelling↗Dispatch generation against inflows, constraints, and live NEM market value.
Multi-unit RTC + pumped storage arbitrage↗Turn forecasts into defensible gate, reservoir, and response decisions hours ahead.
Raven HBV + HEC-RAS 2D routing↗Keep site water balance and ANCOLD freeboard inside operational limits, automatically.
CasADi OCP + ANCOLD compliance↗Automate pumps and gates while holding levels within tight bands — the Dutch way.
GoalProgramming OCP + Modelica↗Shift blowers and digesters to lower-cost energy windows, maximise biogas value.
Time-of-use scheduling · 910 MLD scale↗Plan ahead for dry years — know when and how much to cut back before crisis hits.
Robust scenario-based scheduling↗Balance releases across connected storages so every community gets a reliable share.
LP yield optimisation↗Share limited water fairly across towns, farms, and industry when regulators call for cuts.
Cascade LP + staged goal programming↗Shift energy-intensive machining into off-peak windows without missing a ship date.
Job-shop MILP · TOU energy shifting↗Route the fleet the way the road network actually looks, not the way a spreadsheet guesses.
Vehicle-routing MILP + OSRM road network↗Pre-heat on cheap gas, coast on thermal mass — never chase a flat setpoint again.
Thermal-mass LP · 48-hour forecast horizon↗Charge thermal storage overnight; shave the peak that actually sets your demand charge.
Chiller dispatch LP + TES round-trip dynamics↗Compress off-peak, draw linepack at peak, and never miss a city-gate delivery.
Compressor scheduling · linepack storage↗Time battery formation, cure ovens and dyno tests around the tariff — without slowing the line.
Process MILP · Modelica battery & thermal models↗Atlas ships as a self-contained browser interface with secure authentication for registered clients. We'll walk you through a live call tailored to your infrastructure — no account needed to start that conversation.
Client sign-in is by registration — see Atlas Core above for a demo you can try right now, no account required.
A transparent optimisation workflow that strengthens operator judgment instead of hiding it behind a black box.
Bring forecasts, telemetry, hydraulic models, and operating rules into a shared decision layer.
Atlas evaluates thousands of feasible actions against cost, risk, and service objectives in under 30 seconds.
Operators receive a clear plan, its trade-offs, and the evidence needed to approve and execute it.
Forbay closes the gap between optimisation research and daily infrastructure operations. Every Atlas recommendation respects real equipment limits, service obligations, and the way your team actually works.
F. Awol, P.Eng., Ph.D.
Founder & Principal Engineer
Hydraulic modelling, mathematical optimisation, and real-time control systems across water, energy, and industrial infrastructure. The same optimisation core that schedules a pump station also schedules a job shop or a gas compressor.
We'll map an Atlas walkthrough to your infrastructure, models, and operating challenge — no generic demo, no sales deck.
info@forbaysolutions.comWe'll map an Atlas walkthrough to your specific models, data, and operating challenges — no generic demo.
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