This newsletter provides a concise overview of the new features introduced in our latest software release. For more technical information, we offer a separate subscription called "product information," where we delve into the finer technical details.

Our office in Lyngby, Denmark (by DTU) is enjoying the internship with Mercedes Belda Ley from Spain, sponsored by Kairos' collaboration partner Vysus Group.

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.

Geirmund Vik (Blue Unit A/S) and Bjarne André Asheim (Kairos Technology AS) are happy to announce their cooperation within decision-support for the fish-farming industry. The project has interestingly been named BUDDY!

Kairos Technology is happy to announce that we will collaborate with Green Hydrogen Systems using our unique HAZOP Assistant and Control Room Assistant technology to ensure the safe design and operation of hydrogen electrolysis equipment.

We are going to ADIPEC the 31st of October to the 3rd of November. Please meet us in Hall 9 at stand 9132. We are looking forward to learning more about the future of energy, and discuss how Kairos can be used to help the energy industry towards a more sustainable future. Our CEO, Bjarne André Asheim, will also have a presentation on Monday the 31st in the Smart Manufacturing Zone, Exhibition area of ADIPEC, Session 1: Supercharging a Smart Factory with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT). He will be presenting "From humans to robots and industrial autonomy using Artificial Intelligence" from 15.20-15.40. 

Global engineering and technical consultancy Vysus Group and software provider Kairos Technology are to further develop an intelligent tool that enhances hazard and operability studies (HAZOP).

Kairos' research team and our collaboration partners have provided several important research publications this summer. Functional modelling technology (by means of Multilevel Flow Modelling) and developed tools reason about the relation between cause and consequence in complex systems. Using the data from SCADA/control systems, guidance is provided to help the operator on root causes and how to mitigate them. 

Kairos internship fellow Mohammad Bakhshandeh presented his latest study paper at the ESREL-conference in Ireland. Mohammad is currently completing his Ph.D at University of Stavanger. His research address advanced situation awareness, Human Vigilance, and Sensitivity in complex and dynamic Industrial systems. When modern industrial systems are subjected to complex operating conditions, they generate higher potentials for a wide range of abnormalities, deviations, rare events, and incessant changes. Ad-SA based on enhanced human vigilance and sensitivity is gradually becoming a critical need to ensure high-resilience of such systems and contexts. Mohammad´s publication is available here.

The ESREL 2022 (32nd European Safety and Reliability Conference) was held between 28th of August - 1st of September 2022 at Dublin, Ireland with five days of intense exchange on scientific research and industry practices on the various themes and areas, underpinning this year title: “Understanding and Managing Risk and Reliability for a Sustainable Future”.

Secondly, our research team in Denmark, in close collaboration with Danish Technical University and University of Le-Harvre, Normandie, France, opened up for new improved fault diagnostics opportunities, with Kairos functional modelling technology, used for complex and hazardous plant production systems. Current tools have a limitation, namely that the timing aspect of the propagation to consequences is not considered. The presented research proposes a method to develop a timed causal analysis that will use timing information to filter the sequence of alarms in the SCADA/control systems to help operators assess the development of alarms in case of a critical event. The publication is available online here.

The SAFEPROCESS symposium is a major international gathering of leading exerts in the academia and industry from all over the world. It aims at strengthening the contact between academia and industry to build new networks and cultivate existing relations. SAFEPROCESS is organised every three years by IFAC.

Adam Potter is completing an internship with Kairos, sponsored by DI (Danish Industry) as part of a program from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Adam has just completed his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering with a focus on electrical engineering and is working with Kairos for three months. In the fall, he will go on to a master’s degree as well as a PhD in mechanical engineering with a focus on energy.

Kairos Technology & Vysus Group join forces for the second European Conference on Plant & Process Safety in Antwerp, September 13-14, 2022.

This year, ONS has introduced a new concept called the ONS Scale-Ups arena. The intention is to provide a place where scale-ups can network and meet potential clients and investors. We are pleased to have been selected to attend, among many good start-ups and scale-ups. Look for the ONS Start-ups arena and meet us there on Wednesday 31st and Thursday 1st. 

This week (27.-28.06 2022) we started the collaboration between Vysus and Kairos Technology to make the innovative software solution HAZOP Assistant a game changer. HAZOPs have not changed much since the first introduction back in 1963! 

Join us June 8th 2022 at 12.00 CET for 30 minutes of fascinating and thought provoking discussion!

Kairos Technology, Creative Design Environment (CDE), DEE-Production, and Eldor have recently gone into a new partnership agreement for superior control room environments. We are collaborating as our products and services are very complementary and will allow us to create collaboration environments with unique focus on human factors and manage larger projects together, something that will be of great benefit to our customers.

Please join us for our inaugural 'Lunch & Learn' session in Aberdeen on the 26th of April - with a session entitled "Is the time right for AI in the Control Room?".

Kairos has recently gone into a collaboration with the University of Stavanger for a Ph.D. fellowship. Mohammad Bakhshandeh is completing his Ph.D. in industrial asset management with a focus on the resilience of engineering assets and industrial systems and situation awareness. Mohammad has a long background from working in the oil and gas industry both onshore and offshore. Mohammad is completing his Ph.D. to combine his extensive experience in the industry with higher education. 

Last November, the BANYAN release of the Kairos products provided significant improvements in multiple parts of the products. The software teams delivered on time and have also prepared the architecture to support future products and functionality.

Kairos Technology are so looking forward to be travelling again and soon we will be back in sunny Aberdeen for TOPSIDES UK 2021 on the 29th of November to 3rd of December! 

We are so happy to be traveling again and soon we will be at ADIPEC 2021! Our CEO Bjarne André Asheim and CTO Claus Myllerup will be at our stand for Kairos Technology in the Norwegian Pavillion in Hall 8 at ADIPEC this year. They will showcase our software products for reduced emissions and increased production and safety.

Finally, after a long delay due to the COVID challenges, NFEA is back with high quality and impact conferences. The theme of this conference is the use of Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning with emphasis on practical use cases and business value. The conference will take the hype out of AI/ML and show practical solutions from Tine, Brunvoll AS, and Unger Fabrikker. Kairos Technology will have a stand at the conference, so please come and say hello!

We are happy to announce that Kairos Technology has entered into an agreement with Equinor to utilize our Multilevel Flow Modelling technology during the early design phase of the Krafla development project. Krafla will be the first unmanned production platform on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. 

We in Kairos have had great cooperations with DTU and their PhD candidates for the past few years. Our employees with completed PhDs from DTU includes: Lu Li, Sharat Kumar Pathi, Denis Kirchhübel, and Emil Krabbe Nielsen. DTU Electrical Engineering is now seeking qualified and talented candidates for a vacant PhD position in Improving Process Safety by Applying Model-based Methods. 

The purpose of the project is to define function modelling framework and implement model-based AI reasoning solutions, i.e. to develop representations and algorithms, to support a variety of industrial safety assessment procedures including Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment. The model-based reasoning system will be applied for knowledge management and decision support to facilitate the industrial safety assessment activities.  

Your work will have the potential to influence the current industrial practices, and subsequently improve the safety and reliability of industrial systems, reducing the social and environmental impact due to industrial accidents.

We are excited to be given an opportunity to test our technology during the TechnipFMC energy transition project Deep Purple^TM. You can read more about the project here.

Kairos has entered into an exciting collaboration agreement with the research laboratory GREAH at the University of Le Havre in Normandie, France.

We are proud to announce that Semco Maritime has selected Kairos Technology for a pre-study to develop the next generation of AI driven predictive maintenance.

Join our webinars to learn how new technology supports control room operators in the daily plant operations.

What if we could build in every operators' work-experiences and knowledge into a software that combines expertise with an instant analysis, view of the plant process state, and behavior, would that be helpful?

In this webinar, Bjarne André Asheim (CEO, Kairos Technology) and Ivan Rott (Sales manager, Kairos Technology) will discuss how our software combines experience from different control room operators and uses this knowledge to investigate root causes, consequences, and suggest counteraction steps for process plant upsets and incidents. With this tool, you will be assisted and guided, while keeping full control and making your own final decision of actions.

Entering the last weeks before Christmas break, we are closing in to the end of 2020, which has been a challenging and exciting year for Kairos Technology. Among all, the outbreak of Covid-19 has affected all of us, yet we have managed to minimize the impact and adopted new working methods and tools to secure the commitment and engagement with our customers and the market. Our product development is on track according to plans and new exciting projects are initiated.

We are thrilled to announce that Professor Emeritus DTU, Morten Lind (inventor of the Multilevel Flow Modeling theory) has joined our company to support the exciting developments and enhancements of the applied Artificial Intelligence in the Kairos products and solutions.

The Norwegian Energy week 2020 in Houston will be a web-cast event between December 7th - 11th and will be all about collaboration for a sustainable energy future. 

In this webinar, Denis Kirchhübel (Application scientist, PhD at Kairos Technology) will present a new, real user case of a gaslift compressor incident.

We are excited to announce that we have been awarded funding by Innovation Fund Denmark for a 2-year industrial research project, following a SW Application. The postdoc project will lay the foundations for scaling our Kairos Technology portfolio for widespread applications, while setting standards for the quality of artificial intelligence models.

Bernt Eldor is speaking at the Digitalisation of Process Control event from SPE Aberdeen. In the virtual event on November 25th 2020, we will present a case story that demonstrates how Kairos Control Room Assistant, a technology based on qualitative artificial intelligence, has been integrated with the control systems and existing data, to perform a real-time root cause analysis and prediction of consequences.

Join our webinars to get insight into a user case where we explain how industrial software can prevent shutdowns, improve production efficiency, decrease emissions, and save energy.

Join our webinar to see why Repsol, Equinor, Total, and Chrysaor have decided to use Kairos!

Kairos Technology offers ground-breaking Artificial Intelligence (AI) products for improving the operations and performance of complex process plants. By means of Multilevel Flow Modelling (MFM) we digitalize the deep engineering and operational expertise that exists for the plant to make sure it is available to operations when needed.

To be able to run good workshops with our clients during the restrictions of Covid-19, we have developed Kairos Scenario Maker for testing process models built for Kairos - Control Room Assistant.

With our new tool, it is easy introduce different hypothetical errors to demonstrate and test how the fault propagates through the plant process. A live session with the tool will also provide better understanding of how Kairos can assist your production to safer operation and higher efficiency.

We can also, from historic data, test how plant trips could have been avoided, as well as letting you train your operation team on plant behaviors. The tool helps demonstrate how the causal reasoning works, which is important to ensure that the artificial intelligence becomes explainable.

By using Kairos Scenario Maker User Interface, observations (sensor status) are selected for scenarios chosen to be tested, by simply assigning values outside their limits to see and understand how the AI reasoning works.

SCENARIO MAKER USER INTERFACE

The behavior of your plant caused by these introduced "upsets" (top ranked causes and consequences), are presented in Kairos - Control Room Assistant on screen.

CONTROL ROOM OPERATOR SCREEN  - KAIROS CRA 

Last week, Equinor decided to move forward into phase two with Kairos Control Room Assistant for the Johan Castberg field. Despite challenges with the Covid-19 situation, the project has managed to stay on track and deliver to expectations. The project has adapted to the new situation quickly and found a good way to interact via Teams. To improve the workshops of modelling, a new software tool that supports the creation of fault scenarios has been developed. This tool will be used interactively to test, demonstrate, and explain the behavior of the model, including the Artificial Intelligence in the Control Room Assistant.

To support safe and optimal plant production, Kairos - Control Room Assistant runs in real-time as an assistant always on the alert. With live plant data as evidence, the model presents an instantaneous HAZOP with root causes, predicted consequences, and counteraction plans to assist and help the Control Room Operator.  

Fra Energi24 den 3. juni 2020:

Kairos Technology utvikler teknologi som bruker kunstig intelligens for å styre produksjonen av olje og gass på en mer effektiv måte.

We are proud to announce that we have been granted funding from Innovation Norway to further develop and strengthen our new innovative Kairos product - Kairos HAZOP Assistant.

The support from Innovation Norway will secure the development of additional features and functionalities already available in our HAZOP Simulator to bring to marked a unique tool that will strengthen the Hazard and Operability studies. The tool will improve the quality of the studies, reduce the time required from experts and engineering teams, secure the design basis knowledge over the entire plant lifetime, and display verification scenarios instantly.

Multilevel Flow Modelling (MFM) is a modern method for modelling functions and goals of complex industrial systems. There are increasing needs for these digital twins modelling the process knowledge. Typical industrial systems in need for such a system is the oil and gas facilities and power production plants. 

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:

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.

This news has been updated due to the current situation with the Coronavirus.

Please join us at the conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning by NFEA the 10-11th of November! This conference will be packed with use cases and combines presentation from the industry, users and suppliers. All combined with cutting edge presentations from academia and research and development. Kairos technology will be present with a stand where we will show a demo of Kairos Control Room Assistant in the breaks. 

Sharat Kumar Pathi and Claus Myllerup

We want to thank everyone who stopped by our stand and our technical sessions during ADIPEC. We've had a great few days at the conference, meeting new people working in the energy sector. ADIPEC was an amazing opportunity to meet like minded people and discuss future possibilities and solutions for the oil and gas industry. The energy business in the region is transforming and embracing new technology, our solution based on digitalisation and artificial intelligens is well positioned and aligned with the strategy of the majors in the region. Both Xinxin and Bjarne André presented papers as a part of the technical conference. The technical sessions at the conference were filled with inspiring topics and learning points from the industry, presented by excellent speakers from across the globe. 

Bjarne André and Bernt, along with Xinxin from DTU will man the stand for Kairos Technology in the Norwegian Pavillion in Hall 8 at Adipec this year!

This week a team from Kairos Technology attended the Fourth International Workshop on Functional Modelling (IWFM) at DTU in Copenhagen, Denmark. Claus Myllerup, CTO, demonstrated a customer case story

We are pleased to announce the first release of Kairos - Control Room Assistant today. We started developing the software in 2014, so we are very proud to release the first version of Kairos.

Kairos Technology AS has secured an investment from Skagerak Maturo Seed and ProVenture. Kairos Technology AS has developed KAIROS – Control Room Assistant, which offers real-time decision support for control room operators