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What are the exciting new features in our latest software release: Barlind?

By Bernt Eldor on 08/03/23 09:51

The high level theme for the release is how we ensure coverage of failure modes. Kairos functional modelling is now based on a process library of safety and operability units. The building blocks are based on design guidelines with Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Experience (ISO14224). This has radically improved the models where the total number of failure modes has been increased by a factor 10. A topside model will now typically cover 3500 failure modes. In short: higher quality models implemented faster with little to no user involvement.

Topics: Control Room Efficiency Reduce emissions Software
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How human intelligence gets Kairos up and running on your plant faster

By Ivan Rott on 30/06/20 10:00

To support safe and optimal plant production Kairos - Control Room Assistant provides the control room operator with an instant status of the entire process and predicts possible causes and consequences of any system upsets in real-time.

 

How does the control room assistant work?

For starters, we model the goals and functions of the complex industrial system as it is designed. Together with an increasing number of clients, we have established a library of each process function based on previous models built for the industry. In these library components we have already built in the design knowledge, its objectives, and functional behaviour. This way, industry "knowhow" and valuable operational experience is kept and shared.

 

The Onboarding Working Process

Our onboarding process is a straight-forward 4-step process from model development to operation.

1. Model development

2. Workbench offline testing

3. Real-time implementation

4. Operation

 

Library for safe and effective modelling

It is easy and safe to model a new plant or system based on the plant design information, because we are using the established library blocks. The normal time to build a main process model for a medium offshore installation is now reduced to 8-12 working weeks.

 

Human Intelligence  - The Objective trees

Kairos Technology will establish the objective trees, which is the description of the functional behaviour of the process. The functional models are built based on mass and energy flow transformations. The functional models areincorporated with process, mechanical & control design knowledge, as well as including the industry best operational experience.

 

Workshops - Adapting and sharing Operational Experience

We normally propose a couple of 2-4 hour workshops with the customer to discuss the prepared objective trees. We share the knowledge from other plants and adapt the objective trees to the customers' own unique operational experiences for their specific plant objective and industry knowhow.

 

 

Validation and Familiarization

Kairos Technology builds the model and uses our Scenario Maker to simulate the process behavior of the model. Test scenarios will be agreed on and performed to see the outcome and verify the model and plant design before implementation. The Scenario Maker can also be used to train operators on process disturbances and its cause/consequences.  

 

Implementing Real-Time Data

When the model is verified, it will be connected to the plant and run with real-time data via standard OPC UA interface.

By this point you are ready and Kairos - Control Room Assistant is helping your operators make better decisions for the plant.

System maintenance of Kairos will be minimal as Kairos adapts to site data and parameter settings of the plant. Major plant modifications will be taken into account through the usual Management of Change process.

Kairos - Control Room Assistant for optimised production in oil and gas industry

Topics: @controlroomassistant Situational awareness Control Room Efficiency
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New functionality in our improved Control Room Assistant

By Bernt Eldor on 12/05/20 09:39

Kairos is adding functionality to improve the user experience of our Control Room Assistant. The software will be improved with two yearly major releases (May and November) where added functionality is included. There may be minor releases in between, with bug fixes or customer specific improvements. Three of the important improvements you can expect in this months' release are the following:

Topics: @controlroomassistant Control Room Efficiency
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Equinor to utilize AI technology from Kairos

By Sara Oftedal on 26/03/20 09:15

Kairos and Equinor are cooperating to improve real-time situational management in the control room at Johan Castberg with the use of advanced AI and functional modeling.

Topics: Artificial Intelligence Control Room Efficiency