Industrial operations depend on the relationships between assets, equipment, operating envelopes, processes and history.
But below the surface most of this operational context remains inside people’s heads.
Adam
Safety Barriers
At Eigen, we build and deploy live data models as part of a digital twin for oil and gas facilities. One of the challenges in doing this is how to combine the physical and the abstract into a working data model. And a great example of this is the bow tie – a diagram showing all the protective measures against hazardous events and their potential consequences.
Knowledge Graphs
As The automobile and industrial designer Freeman Thomas said “We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.” In complex domains, like oil and gas, technology may well have simplified some things but it has certainly complicated others, particularly where data is concerned.