Schneider Electric has announced its patent to help reduce the likelihood of process safety hazards through artificial intelligence (AI) by automatically or semi-automatically analysing potential process hazards and validating protection mechanisms in an industrial process.
This innovation has the potential to revolutionise the industry, making processes safer and more efficient.
“We are the first to push this boundary of automating the hazard process analysis with artificial intelligence,” said Chris Stogner, Schneider Electric’s senior director of offer management. “Bringing AI to functional safety can create a more rigorous and robust HAZOP study, generating more combinations of scenarios and deviations than what was humanly possible before.”
Enhancing safety
This latest EcoStruxureTM Triconex Safety team patent is designed to identify potential hazards and safeguards in an industrial process. In its mission to enhance functional safety using AI, the patent not only makes it possible to simulate hazards in varying conditions but also strives to prevent dangerous situations by generating protective mechanisms using a process hazard analysis tool.
Three other Schneider Electric patents incorporating AI into the functional safety lifecycle are pending.
