The evolution in Asset Integrity Management
The industries over the last few years have faced the growing importance of using digital systems aimed at the integrity of assets in their operation. The essentiality of the digitalization of this discipline for the maintenance of a continuous, safe process, with better performance indexes, is already known by many managers, and the implementation of new technologies that optimize the integrity of these assets is already part of the digital transformation of large companies. Read: Asset integrity the secrets behind management As much as the subject is already known by the industry, there are still many difficulties in adapting to [...]
Are you an offshore manager? So you’d better read this
With the arrival of the covid-19 pandemic, dozens of restrictive measures were needed to slow down the spread of the disease. Such measures impacted many businesses, especially offshore industrial plants, and forced them to adapt to a new scenario at the beginning of 2020. Although the need for social isolation has forced many industries to find alternatives so that their employees could continue to perform their duties, we can say that the pandemic was only the accelerator of a transition that would naturally occur with digital transformation. In fact, digital transformation was one of the great allies of industries in [...]
How Digital Twin Technology can predict risk and cost 2021
Digital Twin technology can predict risk and cost in 2021, through asset integrity awareness. Keeping the integrity of industrial assets is an essential task for any industry especially Offshores, Refineries, Oil & Gas, Pulp and Paper, Mining among other complex industrial plants. However, some challenges can appear in the process of inspection and maintenance of these assets. Such as: Lack of a complete and updated inventory of the complex plant; Difficulty in outlining a maintenance budget; Time-consuming inspection tasks; How could asset awareness be achieved? Until the operational phase of the complex plant, many engineering data , technical drawings, [...]
4 Systems in one? See how Ocyan did it using Digital Twin
The history of Vidya and Ocyan Waves began in 2020, and it has been a great journey! Last year we were selected for the Digital Twin: BOP (Subsea Blowout Preventer) Challenge, and today the proof of concept (POC) developed at the challenge evolved into the following amazing project with them! The BOP (Subsea Blowout Preventer) is an extremely important piece of equipment to guarantee the safety of the drilling operation of an oil well. It is composed of a set of valves responsible for closing the well in an emergency, preventing oil leakage. All of the crucial data for operations [...]
The need for decarbonization in the industrial sector
The need to reduce carbon emissions has been generating a major long-term transformation within industries. There are a lot of discussions about how digital transformation has been the escape valve for these many companies that adopt new strategies, and generate value through the use of technology aimed at decarbonization. Certainly, the digital transformation makes it possible for these industries to operate in a cleaner and more sustainable way, in line with the countless changes that occur in the world, and which demand efforts so that the business models remain viable. In the midst of so many changes, it [...]
The secrets of why digital transformation has been crucial for industries
Digital transformation has certainly been a game-changer within the industrial sector. From this important movement, the industries started the digitalization process. There were countless technologies emerging in the period, responsible for a real disruption with traditional methods, used for years in operations. It was thanks to technologies such as: Artificial Intelligence (AI) IoT (Internet of Things) Machine Learning Big Data Digital Twin that industries have been able to achieve results never before achieved. The implementation of systems and tools, equipped with technology within the plants, resulted in new optimization parameters, where data access and control becomes a crucial technique to [...]
The decade of a new era for industries
In 2021, we begin a new decade guided more than ever by digitalization. We can say that this is not just a turn of the decade, but the beginning of a new era. The pandemic that dragged on in 2020 was the breaking point for many companies. Year in which industries needed to reinvent themselves and definitively start their digital transformation strategies. However, there is still a long journey ahead. The certainty is that the next 10 years will be of incredible changes for the industries. Read: pandemic impacts for industries DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION ON THE NEW DIGITAL ERA Over [...]
Digital Twins and Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence has been one of the technologies that most reflects the period of digital transformation. It is from the various computational AI techniques that algorithms capable of extracting and processing giant amounts of data can be developed and applied in industries. Artificial Intelligence is one of the most prominent computational techniques in the last decade. Because of this, we have prepared content that covers the main pillars of this technology that has been revolutionizing our lives. Click and access! We live in an increasingly digital era and every day new technologies take over our routine, [...]
Big Data and Artificial Intelligence: Revolution in data extraction
The digital transformation was a period of many changes for industries with the rise of many innovative technologies that have gained application within industrial plants. However, it was due to various technologies coming from an area of knowledge called Big Data that the technological revolution began to gain new proportions. Understand how digital transformation has brought new opportunities for the intelligent use of large masses of data by digitizing processes by reading an article that will revolutionize your understanding of the subject. Click and read! In a new digital era where Digital Twin, IoT sensors, and Artificial Intelligence algorithms [...]
The journey of digital transformation for the Mining sector
Since antiquity, mining activity has been present in civilizations, and since then it has played a very important role in the supply of mineral material for the development of tools, technologies, and inputs. The importance of this industrial sector is unquestionable. However, the sector faces several difficulties on its way so that its operation remains profitable, safe, and with the minimum possible environmental impacts. As it is a very complex operation and involves heavy machinery in its operations, it is not uncommon to find examples of accidents or failures that compromise the integrity of operators and the continuity of the [...]
