About SimGen
SimGen was founded to answer the question that matters most when operations are on the line:
"Can continued operation be defended with evidence — not intuition, not probabilities?"
Most condition monitoring tools tell you something changed.
Few — if any — tell you whether continuing to run is defensible when stakes are high.
Operational decisions like shutdowns, planned maintenance windows, or derating strategies can involve millions of dollars in risk, regulatory scrutiny, and reputational exposure.
SimGen exists to make those decisions with evidence you can stand behind.
What We Believe
Decisions — not alerts — are what businesses pay for.
Physics-aware analysis enables deeper insight than statistical thresholds alone.
Risk assessments must be transparent, interpretable, and defensible under scrutiny.
Uncertainty is not a nuisance — it must be acknowledged and documented.
How SimGen Works
SimGen applies a disciplined, physics-based approach to operational risk:
Stability-first analysis
Identifying regime changes that precede failure
Equipment-aware modeling
Recognizing that faults manifest differently across systems
Rigorous validation
Including negative controls and confound testing
Decision documentation
Audit-ready reports explaining why and how decisions were reached
We do not rely on black-box models. If a method cannot be interpreted, questioned, and defended — we do not use it.
Why This Matters
Operational risk — whether it stems from bearings, compressors, pumps, or turbines — can manifest subtly and escape conventional monitoring.
Our focus is not simply to detect anomalies, but to answer:
"Is continued operation defensible?"
We help leaders make decisions that withstand internal review, regulator scrutiny, and insurance audit — not just provide a score on a dashboard.
Founder
Kyle Clouthier
SimGen is a boutique consultancy founded and operated by Kyle Clouthier.
All SimGen engagements are conducted directly by the founder — the person who designed the analytical framework, developed the underlying algorithms, and performs the assessments.
Engagements are intentionally limited to preserve rigor, independence, and accountability.
Kyle Clouthier founded SimGen after years of work at the intersection of computational physics, instability analysis, and real-world decision systems.
Originally focused on battery safety and aged lithium-ion systems, Kyle encountered a recurring pattern: methods that worked in ideal conditions failed to provide defensible insights in the messy, uncertain world of aged systems and high-stakes decisions.
This led him to develop a new set of tools grounded in:
- physics-aware stability analysis
- systematic validation
- explicit uncertainty handling
- decision-grade reasoning
Kyle's background includes computational materials, custom physics operators, and real-world production tool design.
SimGen is built on the belief that decision quality matters more than prediction accuracy.
What Clients Get
Every engagement produces a signed, timestamped, audit-ready report — not a dashboard.
Ready to Work Together?
Whether you need a defensibility audit for a specific asset or a fleet-wide risk prioritization, we would be pleased to discuss your situation.