Glossary
Every term we use, in one sentence a non‑engineer understands.
The same list our writing rules and our claim checker use. If a word on this site isn’t here, tell us and we’ll add it or stop using it.
31 terms
A to Z
- Air‑gapped
- Running with no network connection to the outside world at all; updates arrive as signed bundles your own team applies.
- Anomaly
- A pattern in the sensor data that does not match how the machine normally behaves.
- Calibration
- Whether the confidence a prediction states matches reality — a 90 % range should contain the true answer about 90 % of the time.
- Causal chain
- The sequence of causes behind a symptom (e.g. feed impurity → catalyst fouling → hot spot), not just the symptom itself.
- Confidence interval
- The range within which the true result most likely lies — a measure of how sure the statistics are.
- Continual learning
- Learning new patterns without retraining from scratch and without forgetting old ones.
- Counterfactual
- What would have happened had we acted differently — e.g. “had we re‑aligned the coupling in March” — computed, not guessed.
- Data residency attestation
- A signed record that the platform kept all data inside your boundary — produced automatically, and something a security reviewer can ask to see.
- Differential privacy
- A mathematical guarantee that a shared model update cannot be traced back to any one site’s records.
- Digital twin
- A virtual copy of a machine that behaves like the real one, used to test ideas safely.
- Federated learning
- Many sites improve one shared model by exchanging model updates, never raw data — each site’s data stays where it is.
- Historian / SCADA / CMMS
- The systems a plant already runs — the sensor archive, the control system, and the maintenance work‑order system — which Ryedore reads without changing.
- Human-gated
- The AI may propose an action, but a person must approve it before anything happens.
- Industrial multi-task encoder
- Ryedore’s own model: one shared representation learned across industries that serves several tasks (remaining life, anomaly, forecast, classification) — built by us, with no third‑party model inside.
- Label flywheel
- The loop where each failure your engineers confirm makes the next prediction sharper — the labels are yours and never leave your site.
- Neural operator
- A model that learns the physics of a class of equipment so it can answer what‑if questions with physics‑level fidelity in milliseconds.
- Never-degrade gate
- A rule that blocks any new model version that would be worse on any task than the one currently running.
- Number status
- The label under every figure on this site — signed (re‑runnable proof), attested (measured on the platform), industry figure (a named external source), target (a goal, not a result), illustrative (a worked scenario) or roadmap (not shipped).
- On-premises
- Runs on your own hardware; nothing leaves your site.
- Physics check
- A test that the AI’s answer obeys the physical limits of the equipment.
- Promotion (of a model)
- The moment a new model version is allowed to serve — only after it has passed every quality gate and been logged as admitted.
- Promotion attestation
- A signed certificate that a new model version passed every gate before it was allowed to serve.
- Provenance
- Where a result came from — which data, which step, which specialist produced it.
- Quick What-if
- Ryekronix’s fast setpoint ranking — proposes moves in seconds; it never dispatches them.
- Reasoning trace
- The step-by-step record of how the AI reached a conclusion — what it saw, what it inferred, and why.
- Remaining useful life (RUL)
- How long a machine has before it fails, as a prediction with an uncertainty range.
- Root cause
- The underlying reason a problem happened, as opposed to the alarm that reported it.
- Ryekronix
- Ryedore’s operations agent: ask in plain English, it plans, investigates, answers with a trace, and asks a human before acting.
- Signed benchmark
- A published test result on public data, cryptographically signed so anyone can verify it has not been altered — and re-run it.
- Specialists Lab
- Ryedore’s six-agent experiment team: it designs and runs a controlled trial on a digital twin and reports the statistics. It never touches the plant.
- What-if / counterfactual
- A question of the form “what happens if we change X?” answered by simulation rather than by trying it on the real machine.
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