An operational intelligence layer for thermal infrastructure.
YBG Global is an industrial performance intelligence platform focused on operational optimisation within existing thermal infrastructure — at the intersection of combustion science, radiative heat transfer, operational intelligence, and industrial transition strategy.
We engineer a deterministic measurement layer that an operator's own engineers can review, defend, and act on. The system interprets live plant data and quantifies the gap between current performance and the unit's own best-achieved performance across load conditions. No external benchmarks. No predictive models. No control intervention.
Outputs are traceable end-to-end and engineered to sit alongside existing plant performance practice — not to replace it.
Combustion is actively controlled. Heat-transfer performance is not.
Even well-designed plants drift away from their own best demonstrated performance — through air–fuel imbalance, fouling behaviour, operational variability, load transitions, and radiative inefficiencies inside the furnace environment. The result is measurable: higher fuel consumption, lower thermal efficiency, elevated emissions intensity, and reduced economic performance.
YBG exists to identify, quantify, and operationally address that drift.
YBG Global progressively formalised its operational methodologies into structured technical doctrine for utility-scale thermal assets — focused on combustion-performance interpretation, radiative heat-transfer optimisation, historian-derived operational intelligence, thermal-state reconstruction, and operational drift analysis.
These frameworks were developed to support deterministic, audit-oriented operational assessment rather than black-box optimisation approaches.
Internal doctrine development included:
- Operational interpretation standards
- Performance-analysis frameworks
- ControlAlign™ methodology codification
- Thermal-state benchmarking concepts
- Radiative-performance interpretation models
As the framework matured, YBG Global incorporated alignment considerations with relevant operational, emissions, environmental, and industrial-governance frameworks applicable to utility-scale thermal infrastructure.
This included consideration of:
- Emissions-intensity reduction frameworks
- Operational accountability and auditability
- ISO-aligned management-system principles
- Historian-data traceability
- Measurement and verification (M&V) approaches
- Emerging carbon-accounting and performance-verification requirements
The operational-intelligence architecture is designed to support integration with existing DCS/APC environments while maintaining traceability, explainability, and engineering reviewability.
Founder of the YBG operational-thermodynamics framework and principal author of the YBG Performance Doctrine. Dr. Griffiths' empirical work across industrial combustion environments — including oxyhydrogen deployment programs in India that produced sustained double-digit steam-to-fuel ratio improvements in biomass and coal-fired steam boilers — surfaced the radiative heat-transfer anomaly that became the basis for the ControlAlign™ interpretation layer.
He has led the codification of YBG's combustion-vs-heat-transfer doctrine, the best-demonstrated-performance methodology, and the operational-drift analysis frameworks that underpin the platform's deterministic, historian-derived interpretation of utility-scale thermal assets.
Dr. Griffiths leads YBG Group International's strategic direction, doctrinal development, and consortium-level engagement with utilities, infrastructure funds, and industrial transition initiatives across hard-to-abate sectors.
Oracle-certified manufacturing and supply-chain implementation specialist with more than 30 years of experience across industrial enterprise systems, operational integration, and large-scale manufacturing environments.
Srini supports YBG Global's operational integration, enterprise systems alignment, implementation coordination, and industrial deployment frameworks across utility and infrastructure environments — ensuring that ControlAlign™ and Carbon Intelligence delivery layers integrate cleanly into existing enterprise operational ecosystems.
Extensive background across Oracle manufacturing, planning, logistics, procurement, asset-management, and enterprise operational ecosystems spanning manufacturing, transportation, engineering, healthcare, telecom, automotive, and industrial sectors.
The progression from early combustion-side engineering through to the present fleet-level operational-intelligence positioning.
Advanced Technology Partnership (ATP)
YBG operates through an ATP model designed to integrate with existing industrial, utility, EPC, and infrastructure frameworks — supporting thermal performance optimisation, operational intelligence deployment, performance-linked improvement programs, and infrastructure revitalisation without requiring fundamental redesign of existing assets.
YBG's long-term focus extends beyond power generation into broader hard-to-abate industrial sectors — thermal power generation, steel, cement, and energy-intensive industrial processes — where thermal efficiency, operational stability, and emissions intensity remain globally significant challenges.
The industrial transition will depend not only on new infrastructure, but on the intelligent optimisation of existing global industrial assets.
YBG is not an EPC contractor, a software vendor, or an advisory consultancy.
It is a structured industrial thesis with deployable operating layers.
Combining physical intervention, operational performance analysis, combustion intelligence, and strategic deployment frameworks into a unified industrial platform — embedded within existing thermal infrastructure rather than wrapped around it.
YBG operates through an international structure incorporating three complementary platforms under YBG Group International Pty Ltd (Australia).
- ControlAlign™ · Industrial Thermodynamic Intelligence · ybgglobal.com
- HydroHub™ · Industrial Oxyhydrogen Combustion Enhancement · ybgindustrial.com
- HHO™ · Hydrogen Health Optimization™ · Consumer Wellness · hho.company
Corporate parent: ybggroup.com.au