Azbil Chiller Plant Digital Twin (CPDT)

Azbil Corporation is a Japanese building and industrial automation company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE 6845), with a Vietnamese subsidiary, Azbil Vietnam Co., Ltd., with offices in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. It supplies automation for buildings, plants and data centers and states more than 120 years of building automation experience. Founding year is not stated on the fetched pages.

The Chiller Plant Digital Twin (CPDT) is an AI-driven virtual model of the physical chiller plant, simulating chillers, pumps and cooling towers. It offers operational visualization, what-if simulation, fault and deterioration detection, and comparison of simulated and actual energy use, with recommendations for automated energy savings. It sits alongside the savic-net SCADA and ACTIVAL+ valves.

• High-fidelity virtual model: simulates chillers, pumps and cooling towers of the physical plant.
• What-if simulation: tests alternative operating scenarios before applying them on site.
• Fault and deterioration detection: flags inefficiency, abnormal behavior and aging equipment.
• Energy comparison: compares simulated and actual energy performance in real time.
• Saving recommendations: AI-driven suggestions for automated energy savings.
• savic-net SCADA: HMI with OPC UA, BACnet, Modbus, MQTT and SNMP integration.

Chiller plants of data centers in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. Central cooling of electronics and semiconductor factories in Vietnamese industrial parks. Chilled water systems of pharmaceutical and food plants seeking lower power use.

Chiller plants can account for up to 60% of total air-conditioning and ventilation energy, so optimizing them targets the largest share. Operators can test alternative operating scenarios in the twin before applying them on site, which lowers operational risk. Analytics flag inefficiency, abnormal behavior and equipment deterioration. A brochure on the Azbil Malaysia site cites a Singapore case with about 10.3% lower chiller power use.

Cooling is a large and growing electricity load in data centers, electronics plants and commercial buildings, and Vietnam is expanding data center and industrial capacity. Operators are adopting digital twins and AI to reduce cooling energy and meet efficiency and carbon targets without rebuilding plants.

Azbil Vietnam head office in Hanoi (Hapulico Complex) and an office in Ho Chi Minh City. Group exhibited CPDT at Data Centre World Asia 2024 in Singapore and sponsored Data Centre World Asia 2026 and ITAP 2025. Country JP inferred from TSE listing stated on the press page.