Industrial AI · Water-Tech · AI Governance

Your plant data, turned into decisions and made to measure.

artxdata designs custom AI for water, energy and industrial operations: forecasting, process optimization, GenAI and governed, EU AI Act–ready systems. Every model is built from your own data, like a commissioned piece.

data · ΔP bar · NTU · µS/cmart · custom model
15+ yrsof industrial AI and data science practice
6 AI productsbuilt for water & desalination operations
19 use casesdelivered in water, energy, industry and finance
AI Act readygovernance aligned with ISO/IEC 42001, 42005, 27001 & 27005

The name

Why art × data

Data

Rigour first. Sensor streams, panel data and documents are modelled with the tools of econometrics, machine learning and reinforcement learning, then validated with the people who run the plant.

Art

Craft second, never missing. No off-the-shelf template: each model, dashboard and visual is shaped to one site, one process and one team, and can even become a custom artwork made from your own data.

The X is where the two meet: scientific models that operators can read, trust and act on.

01 · Industries

Built around the problems of each industry

Start from your sector and its constraints. Each industry maps to the problems it faces, the AI that answers them and the use cases already delivered.

WATER · WASTEWATER · DESALINATION

Water & Wastewater

Challenges

  • Chemical over-dosing and cost volatility
  • Membrane fouling, scaling and unplanned cleaning
  • Raw water salinity, UV and turbidity swings

What we deploy

  • Reinforcement learning for dosing
  • Fouling forecasting & CIP recommendation
  • Membrane normalization models
ENERGY · UTILITIES

Energy & Utilities

Challenges

  • Energy is the largest variable cost of treatment
  • Pumps and high-pressure trains run off-optimum
  • Decarbonisation targets need measurable savings

What we deploy

  • Plant energy optimization
  • Real-time forecasting of demand and load
  • Anomaly detection on assets
CHEMICALS · PHARMA · MANUFACTURING

Process & Manufacturing

Challenges

  • Supply chain disruption and supplier failure
  • Fraud and control gaps across sites
  • Quality losses hard to trace to causes

What we deploy

  • Supply chain risk automation
  • Fraud analysis models
  • Quality-loss recommendation engines
BANKING · PAYMENTS · INSURANCE

Financial Services

Challenges

  • Fraud in SWIFT, SEPA (ISO 20022) and card flows
  • Credit and counterparty risk
  • Conduct and antitrust monitoring

What we deploy

  • Hybrid econometric + ML fraud detection
  • Credit risk and price prediction
  • NLP surveillance of communications
DOCUMENTS · SERVICES · RETAIL

Enterprise & Services

Challenges

  • Unstructured documents across the whole lifecycle
  • Customer satisfaction that is measured too late
  • Pricing and product ranges set by intuition

What we deploy

  • LLM and NLP document intelligence
  • Real-time sentiment services
  • Recommendation & price optimization
CROSS-INDUSTRY · REGULATED AI

AI Risk & Governance

Challenges

  • EU AI Act obligations for high-risk systems
  • No inventory or risk rating of AI products
  • Audits that arrive after deployment

What we deploy

  • AI governance frameworks (ISO/IEC 42001)
  • Impact assessments (ISO/IEC 42005)
  • Enterprise AI risk monitoring

02 · AI Solutions

From AI strategy to governed AI in production

Six service lines cover the full path: choose the right problems, build the models, put them into operation and keep them compliant.

AI Strategy & Use-Case Portfolio

Identify, size and rank use cases against your data maturity and operating constraints; build the roadmap and the business case with plant and business owners.

diagnostic · roadmap · value case · data audit

Industrial Forecasting & Predictive Maintenance

Custom time-series models that forecast water quality, fouling, scaling and equipment behaviour early enough for operators to act.

ML · neural networks · statistical models · real time

Optimization & Decision AI

Reinforcement learning and micro-econometric models that recommend set-points, chemical doses, cleaning schedules and energy use under real operating constraints.

reinforcement learning · recommender engines · optimization

GenAI, LLMs & Agentic AI

LLM assistants and agents grounded in your documents, procedures and plant history: document indexing, sentiment services, operator copilots and workflow agents.

LLM · RAG · agents · NLP/NLU · entity recognition

Responsible AI, Risk & Governance

AI governance frameworks, risk classification, impact assessment and lifecycle monitoring aligned with the EU AI Act and ISO/IEC 42001, 42005 and 23894.

EU AI Act · ISO 42001 · ISO 27001 · ISO 27005

Data Foundations & MLOps

Pipelines, data quality and model operations on AWS and Spark, from UAT to production, with documentation and architecture your teams can maintain.

AWS · Spark · Elasticsearch · MLOps · model monitoring

Signature service

Data Art: custom pieces made from your data

A year of a plant's operation, a network's flows or a company's history, rendered as an original artwork or editorial visualization. Each piece is generated from real data and can be printed for offices, reports and events.

generative art · editorial data visualization · print-ready

Example: 365 daily salinity readings as rays · dots mark clean-in-place events (simulated data)
  1. DiagnoseUse cases, data audit, value case
  2. ModelCustom ML, RL or econometric model
  3. ValidateTest cases run with plant operations
  4. DeployUAT → production, MLOps, documentation
  5. GovernRisk rating, monitoring, AI Act evidence

03 · Technologies

The methods behind the models

We apply scientific methods to industrial problems. Each method is chosen for the physics of the process, the data available and the decision it must support.

Methods and where they apply

Reinforcement learning
Sequential control of chemical dosing, cleaning intervals and energy set-points, trained offline on plant history and bounded by process limits.
Time-series forecasting
ML, neural and state-space models on real-time and panel data, with prediction intervals for salinity, turbidity (NTU), UV transmittance and ΔP.
Econometric & behavioural models
Micro-econometric identification separates operator actions from process drift, so a model explains what changed and why.
Physics-informed & custom mathematical models
Mass-balance and membrane transport equations combined with learned terms for fouling, scaling and colloidal deposition.
Recommendation engines
Collaborative filtering, matrix factorisation, hedonic and transformer-RL recommenders for maintenance actions and offers.
NLP, LLMs & agents
Entity recognition, topic models and agentic LLMs grounded in procedures, reports and contracts.

Standards we work to

EU AI ActISO/IEC 42001ISO/IEC 42005ISO/IEC 23894ISO/IEC 27001ISO/IEC 27005ASTM D4516

Governance is built into delivery: each model ships with its risk classification, technical documentation and monitoring plan. RO performance data is normalized following the ASTM D4516 practice before any model sees it.

Scientific approach, industrial constraints

HypothesisStart from the process

Every model begins with the physics and chemistry of the unit operation: what drives permeability loss, which variables the operator actually controls, which are disturbances.

IdentificationSeparate cause from correlation

Econometric identification and controlled back-testing show the effect of a dose or set-point change, net of temperature, feed quality and load.

UncertaintyQuantify, then decide

Forecasts carry confidence intervals and recommendations carry a risk bound, so operators know when to trust the model and when to override it.

ValidationProve it on the plant

Test cases are run with plant operations in UAT before production, and model drift is monitored against the same KPIs afterwards.

04 · Use Cases

Use cases delivered in production

Every card below comes from a real project. Filter by industry to see the problem, the method and the data it runs on.

Water · Desalination

Chemical consumption optimization

Recommends coagulant and antiscalant doses in real time to cut chemical use while keeping treated water on specification.

Method
Reinforcement learning, statistical learning, micro-econometric custom models
Data
Real-time time series
Water · Raw water quality

Salinity, UV & turbidity forecasting

Forecasts salinity, UV transmittance and turbidity (NTU) so operators can anticipate changes in feed water.

Method
ML, neural network and statistical models
Data
Time series & panel data, real time
Water · Membranes

Membrane performance normalization

Computes normalized permeate flow, salt passage and ΔP (ASTM D4516 practice), so membrane decline is visible independently of temperature, pressure and feed salinity.

Method
ML models, behavioural regression models
Data
Real-time time series
Water · Maintenance

Cleaning detection & recommendation

Detects past clean-in-place (CIP) events in the historian and recommends the next CIP date from the normalized performance trend.

Method
Recommendation engines, ML models
Data
Cross section & time series, real time
Water · Membranes

Biofouling, scaling & colloidal fouling

Separates the three fouling mechanisms on RO trains using normalized ΔP, salt passage, SDI and scaling indices, and forecasts each one before it costs production.

Method
ML models, custom mathematical models
Data
Real-time time series
Energy · Treatment plants

AI for plant energy optimization

Models the energy consumption of treatment plants and finds operating points that use less energy for the same output.

Method
ML, neural network and statistical models
Data
Real-time time series
Energy · Assets

Anomaly detection

Flags abnormal behaviour in operational and business data so teams investigate the few cases that matter.

Method
ML and neural network models
Data
Cross section
Pharma · Supply chain

Supply chain risk automation

Automates supply chain risk assessment with an AI risk methodology and responsible-AI compliance support.

Method
AI risk assessment, governance strategy
Frame
ISO 27001 / 27005
Automotive · Controls

Fraud analysis

AI-based fraud analysis with a risk management framework and governance processes around the models.

Method
AI system assessment, risk frameworks
Frame
ISO 27001 / 27005
Industry · Quality

Quality-loss recommendation engine

Links quality losses to their likely causes and recommends corrective actions.

Method
Custom hedonic recommendation system
Data
Cross section, real time
Enterprise risk · API

Supplier & operational risk API

Scores supplier failure, stock shortage, antitrust, corruption and fraud, and cyber-security risks through one API.

Method
ML, NLP, risk valuation models
Data
Cross section & text
Enterprise risk · ERM

Automated risk register & valuation

Builds the risk register, values operational risks from audit reports and recommends risk scenarios.

Method
NLP, ERM optimization, scenario recommendation
Data
Audit reports, text
Water utility · AI products

AI product risk management

Identifies, classifies and mitigates the risks of AI products across their lifecycle, with AI Act evidence.

Method
AI governance framework, impact assessment
Frame
EU AI Act, ISO 42001, 42005, 27001
Banking · Payments

Fraud detection in SWIFT, SEPA & cards

Multidisciplinary econometric and ML specifications to detect fraud in international transfers (ISO 20022) and card payments.

Method
NLP, neural networks, micro-econometrics, ML
Data
Text, cross section, time series
Banking · Compliance

Abnormal behaviour in financial e-mail

Surfaces communication patterns that may signal antitrust or conduct issues.

Method
NLP, ML models
Data
Text & cross section, real time
Banking · Credit

Credit risk & price prediction

Predicts credit risk and prices, and analyses customer behavioural tendencies.

Method
ML, neural networks, econometrics
Data
Cross section
Services · Customer

Client sentiment satisfaction service

Measures customer satisfaction in real time from free text with an LLM and NLP service (SENT-AI).

Method
LLM, NLP
Data
Text, real time
Documents · Lifecycle

Document indexing & compliance

Indexes, classifies and scores documents and contracts, including table extraction and compliance scores.

Method
NLP entity recognition, classification
Data
Text
Retail · Luxury

Product recommendation & pricing

Recommends products and optimizes prices for luxury and tourism offers.

Method
Recommender systems, micro-econometrics
Data
Cross section

05 · Results & Case Studies

Selected engagements

Four engagements show the range, from real-time plant optimization to enterprise AI governance.

Water · Desalination

AI suite for water treatment plants

Veolia Water Technologies · 2021 – present

Challenge

Desalination and treatment plants run under tight quality limits, with chemical, energy and membrane costs that react to changing raw water.

Approach

  • Six custom AI products: dosing, forecasting, normalization, cleaning, energy, fouling
  • Test cases validated with plant operations

Result

  • ML pipelines run in UAT and production on real-time plant data
  • Optimization algorithms developed with the Veolia Water Technologies digital team

Governance · Water utility

AI product risk management

Veolia · AI Act readiness

Challenge

A growing portfolio of AI products needed consistent risk classification before the EU AI Act applies.

Approach

  • Governance framework aligned with EU AI Act and ISO/IEC 42001
  • Impact assessments per ISO/IEC 42005

Result

  • Risk identification, classification and mitigation across the AI lifecycle
  • A dedicated AI risk management team set up and guided

Enterprise risk · SaaS

Automated enterprise risk management

Arondor · FERMA expert team · 2019 – 2021

Challenge

Risk registers were built and valued by hand, from long audit reports, and updated too rarely.

Approach

  • APIs scoring supplier, shortage, antitrust, fraud and cyber risk
  • Operational risk valuation from audit reports

Result

  • Risk products delivered as SaaS and APIs
  • Methodology contributed to the FERMA scientific expert team

Pharma · Automotive

Supply chain risk & fraud analysis

IPSEN · FORVIA Faurecia

Challenge

AI used in supply chain and fraud controls had to be assessed and governed like any other critical system.

Approach

  • AI risk assessment methodology and governance strategy
  • Compliance support under ISO 27001 and 27005

Result

  • Automated supply chain risk assessment
  • Governed fraud analysis with documented AI risk controls

06 · Expertise

Scientific depth, industrial delivery

artxdata brings together four competencies that are rarely found in one team.

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Science

Quantitative modelling

Econometrics, reinforcement learning, forecasting and custom mathematical models, designed for the process at hand and validated against plant data.

Engineering

Industrial AI in production

Real-time pipelines, MLOps and technical documentation, from UAT to production, built with plant operations, data engineers and product teams.

Trust

AI risk & governance

Risk classification, impact assessment and lifecycle monitoring aligned with the EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001 and 42005, ISO/IEC 27001 and 27005.

Craft

Data visualization & data art

Results made readable for operators and managers, and custom artworks generated from a client's own data.

07 · Contact

Tell us about your plant, your data or your AI portfolio

A first call is enough to see whether a use case is worth modelling. We work in French, English and Turkish.

E-mail
okay.gunes@artxdata.com
Web
artxdata.com
Languages
Français · English · Türkçe