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Equipment Inspection and Troubleshooting

Every business needs the agility to react quickly to the constantly changing business environment and to improve the performance of its operation. A key enabler for this is the automation of decision making, expertise, and business rules and processes via Business Rules Automation.

Suppliers of industrial plant and machinery providing support services to customers can benefit from using this technology via mobile applications for field based engineers and support specialists in the areas of equipment inspection and assessment, troubleshooting of operating problems and maintenance support.

Solutions Overview

Equipment Inspection and Troubleshooting – leverage the expertise of key employees by deploying expert system software applications to support diagnostic troubleshooting of equipment operating problems.

Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics – real time monitoring of plant conditions using a combination of expert rules and decision analytics to alert operators and engineers to problems before they impact plant operations.

Equipment Control and Optimisation – model based multivariable control and optimisation customised to match the performance of your plant.

Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics

In today’s operating environment process plants are under more pressure than ever to deliver improved operating performance with fewer skilled staff. XpertRule Software enables the rapid deployment of powerful rules based applications for improved plant operation and decision support. Typical applications include:

• monitoring plant conditions and alerting operators and engineers to potential problems before they impact plant operations

• diagnosing the cause of existing faults to enable faster resolution of operating problems

• offering recommendations and advice to operators to avoid poor or abnormal operations

• statistical modelling and optimisation of plant operation with built in data analytics and GA optimisation

• automating workflows such as data validation or manual data capture and alerting to potential issues

Equipment Control & Optimisation

Many items of equipment in the food processing, pharmaceutical and speciality chemicals industries such as evaporators, dryers and powder milling systems are now fitted with modern SCADA systems for control and monitoring of performance. In many cases control is limited to single PID loops controlling local plant variables and overall control of the unit is carried out by an operator adjusting setpoints to meet local operating requirements such as product specifications or target throughput.

KPS can help companies improve operation of such equipment with their patented IntelliPlant control technology which automates the control and optimisation of such plant to meet predefined operating objectives.

Oilfield Data Analysis

Most assets have in place information systems that collect and store large amounts of oilfield operating data relating to production from individual wells such as hydrocarbon and water flow rates, measurements from plant instrumentation and well test results. In brownfields the data typically stretches back over many years of operation and represents a huge repository of asset operating experience but it many sites it is a relatively under utilised resource.

KPS can help you unlock the value in this data with the Oilfield Data Analyser and its unique Event Associations technology. Our product rapidly analyses historic reservoir production and measurement data and automatically derives well to well interaction patterns such as the level of injector support for producer wells identifying for example those injectors not contributing towards production or production wells cycling injected water.

Event Association Technology

Event Associations provide a way of systematically analysing many thousands of records of data and automatically discovering patterns and relationships between variables. The first step in applying the technology is to define events of interest in the production data, such as sustained changes in production rate from a well or a sustained increase or reduction in water injection.