Free-lime drift
Burning-zone swings yield unsound, weak cement and 28-day strength you can't warranty.
Physical AI · Cement & concrete autonomy
Every burn,
perfectly made.
Clinkum runs the cement plant autonomously: burning-zone control, clinker-quality sensing, and energy / CO₂ optimization, closing the loop from perception to kiln-and-line control. The operator's craft, encoded and always on.
- Global CO₂ from cement
- 7–8%
- Burning-zone target
- 1,450°C
- Loop, perception→control
- closed
BURNING ZONE1,451°C
FREE LIME0.86%
KILN FEED318t/h
ALT-FUEL64%
SPEC. ENERGY3.11GJ/t
CO₂842kg/t
The burning zone is a black art.
We turned it into a control law.
Fire quarried limestone to ~1,450 °C and the clinkering reactions that give cement its strength happen in a knife-edge window. Most plants still run it on intuition, hourly lab samples, and a retiring generation of veteran operators.
Kiln instability
Rings, balls, and refractory failure force unplanned stoppages that cost fortunes.
Alt-fuel volatility
Co-processing waste fuels destabilizes the flame, chemistry, and emissions in one shot.
Craft, retiring
The intuition that governs the flame walks out the door with every veteran operator.
Seven agents. One plant, run autonomously.
Each agent perceives and controls a stage of the line, from the quarry to the pour, governed by a shared kiln-and-concrete digital twin. Grounded, auditable, deeply integrated.
A1
Raw & feed
Quarry blending and raw-meal proportioning: LSF, silica / alumina ratios, and raw-mill fineness for a stable kiln feed.
Explore →A2
Kiln & pyro
Runs the pyroprocess: preheater, calciner, feed, fuel, oxygen, burning-zone temperature and flame, forming the target clinker phases.
Explore →A3
Clinker quality
Senses and predicts free lime, alite / belite phases, litre weight, and defects, before the lab ever samples.
Explore →A4
Grind & blend
Controls finish grinding: Blaine fineness, gypsum / SCM blending, and cement-type spec.
Explore →A5
Concrete & batch
Optimizes ready-mix / precast batching: water-cement ratio, admixtures, slump, and strength prediction.
Explore →A6
Robot & inspection
Robotic sampling, drone kiln-shell and refractory inspection, and packing / palletizing.
Explore →A7
Energy & emissions
Optimizes thermal / electrical energy, alternative-fuel rate, and CO₂ / NOx / SOx.
Explore →DT
Digital twin
Simulates the pyroprocess, clinker chemistry, and concrete strength. Hit spec before the burn and the pour.
Explore →Six products. One closed loop.
The agents ship as six products across the cement-to-concrete chain. They share one plant-edge platform, one set of cement and clinker models, and one dataset, so every burn teaches all six.
Pyron
Control core
The autonomous burning zone. Every kiln, fired right.
Explore Pyron
Clinvue
Perception core
Clinker quality in real time. Free lime, phases, and strength before the lab.
Explore Clinvue
Cemtwin
Simulation core
Hit spec before the burn and the pour. The cement digital twin.
Explore Cemtwin
Carbex
Energy & emissions
Less energy, more alternative fuel, lower CO₂. Tuned every minute.
Explore Carbex
Refron
Physical layer
Robots that sample, scan, and inspect the kiln, so people don't have to.
Explore Refron
Pourix
Concrete core
Every pour on-spec. Autonomous ready-mix and precast.
Explore PourixPerception → control
A closed loop, not a dashboard.
Generic tools show you a chart and leave the decision to a tiring operator. Clinkum is a system of action: it perceives clinker quality and kiln state, simulates the outcome in the twin, and writes setpoints back to the DCS / APC under your security controls, every second, every tonne.
- Perceive. Soft-sensors fuse process, analyzer, and vision data into a live picture of the burn.
- Simulate. The twin tests the next move against clinker chemistry and strength.
- Act. Grounded, auditable setpoints go back to the line, with a full trace.
- 01Perceivefree lime · phases · flame
- 02Simulatekiln & concrete twin
- 03Actsetpoints → DCS / APC
The whole thermal journey, held in spec.
From the preheater tower to the clinker cooler, Clinkum holds every stage of the burn on its target curve. The grip is tightest exactly where it matters most: through the burning zone.
Priced and proven on the value it moves.
Built for the whole value chain.
IntegratedIntegrated plants
Quarry to kiln to grinding, run as one autonomous line.
GrindingGrinding stations
Finish grinding and blending to spec at minimum power.
Ready-mixReady-mix
Batching optimized for strength, slump, and binder cost.
PrecastPrecast
Consistent strength and cure across every element.
Shadow first. Closed-loop when you trust it.
Integrate
Connect to your DCS / APC, analyzers, and historian via OPC UA / Modbus.
Shadow mode
The agents recommend while operators run, proving accuracy on your data.
Close the loop
Turn on bounded autonomy per loop, with hand-back at any time.
Expand
Add agents and lines; land on one kiln, scale to the fleet.
Legacy control vs. Clinkum autonomy
Expert systems & manual control
- Single-loop PID chasing one variable
- Hourly lab feedback, acted on late
- Alt-fuel kept conservative
- Craft locked in a few veterans
- Dashboards that only show
Clinkum
- Coordinated control across the line
- Live prediction, pre-empted drift
- Alt-fuel at the stability limit
- The craft encoded and always on
- A system that acts, with a trace
“We stopped chasing the kiln and started trusting it. Free lime is tighter, energy is down, and the night shift finally sleeps.”
Plant Director · Integrated cement plant
Explore the platform
Run a paid pilot on one kiln.
Pick a burning-zone, energy, or CO₂ metric. We'll prove it on your line, on your data, under your security controls.