Example use cases

Use Vertex to explore connected data, simulate decisions, and visualize operational processes.

Simulation, dynamic analysis, and decision optimization

Use models, forecasts, or business logic published in Foundry to explore your digital twin:

• Run "what-if" analyses and simulations across your network to compare the impact of decisions, events, or changes to your systems.
• Apply real-world context to simulations to quantify the impact of proposed changes.
• Connect processes and systems across your digital twin to analyze operations across teams and data sources.

Predictive maintenance

Connect equipment, sensor readings, and maintenance history in your Ontology to understand asset health and plan maintenance:

• Compare sensor time series, such as temperature or vibration, with related maintenance events.
• Use predictions from models published in Foundry to assess equipment failure risk.
• Explore connected assets and compare maintenance scenarios to understand potential effects on production.

Learn how to explore related time series and run scenarios.

Open-ended graph investigation

Start with objects of interest and explore relationships in your Ontology as new questions arise:

• Follow links to discover related objects and expand your graph.
• Use multi-step Search Arounds and filters to trace paths and focus on relevant connections.
• Save and share graphs with other investigators to review findings together.

Learn how to explore object relationships, build advanced Search Arounds using Functions, and save and share graphs.

Point-and-click process flow diagramming [Beta]

Use diagramming to:

• Create a digital twin of your operations to test how different conditions affect outcomes.
• Configure object-backed system graphs or production diagrams for workflows such as material processing, equipment tuning, production, and supply chain management.
• Use predefined relationships between modeled objects and processes to visualize material flow and events across your system.
• Style your object graph or diagram based on properties, metrics, or measures to tailor your system visualizations.

Production diagram:

This screenshot uses notional data.

See Create and edit diagrams to learn more about adding annotations, styling diagram elements, and drawing connections in Vertex.

System graph:

This screenshot uses notional data.