Enhancing Ocyan’s FPSO Fabric Integrity with Artificial Intelligence
September 04th, 2023. Vidya Technology and Ocyan have completed 3 years of partnership since the Digital Fabric Integrity project in the FPSO Cidade de Itajaí. The AI-driven solution combines Digital Twin technology, reality capture, and AI Computer Vision to autonomously locate, map, and identify visual anomalies. With up to 90% AI accuracy and identifying 256% more anomalies than the usual approach, the project was able to transform data, images, and reports into safer and more efficient maintenance actions. Industrial operations face many challenges related to downtime, safety, and productivity. The critical point common to all of these challenges can be [...]
3 Key Takeaways from the IMSS Event
The SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) Brazil Section event, Integrity Management System Symposium (IMSS), took place on August 2-4 in Rio de Janeiro. The main objective of IMSS was to foster discussions in the Oil and Gas industry regarding the “New SGSO”, which stands for the New Safety Management Systems. The New SGSO is Brazil's first operational safety regulation, consisting of 17 distinct performance-oriented and risk management practices aimed at enhancing facilities and operations within the Oil and gas sector. During the symposium, 3 main topics were discussed to jointly establish a projection of what is expected for Brazil in [...]
Podcast: The IoT trend for Industries
Transcription: Iot is one of the most popular technologies from digital transformation. The use of Iot has fallen into mainstream use. Today it is not uncommon to see devices equipped with this kind of sensor in daily lives. Iot is a technology that enables devices to communicate with themselves without human interaction. One of the most popular examples of IoT devices is the smart home and Amazon’ Alexa. Its application is so broad that this technology also plays a fundamental role in the industrial environment. The Industrial internet of things is what it's called. For industries the importance of [...]
Podcast: Industries of the Future
Transcription: The digital transformation has caused a major disruption in industries. Manual activities were automated through technologies and the trend is that this keeps going even further. Digitalization is strongly entering the mainstream. Technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Industrial internet of things and digital twins are the main responsible for this revolution in industries. The application of these technologies are creating huge cybersystems in industrial plants. With the years passing by and the constant evolution of these technologies we can say that industries of the future will be based on full data-driven operation. The sharing of information between [...]
Podcast: How are digital twins made?
Transcription: Hello, welcome to Vidyacast the smart doses of industries innovation! On today’s episode, we’re going to talk about the process of creation of a digital twin! The digital twin is a well-known technology, elected by Gartner as top trending technology, attracting this way the attention of many industries. Basically, a digital twin is a digital replica of a physical object, fed with real-time data. Beyond that, digital twins could be implemented with the support of machine learning and analytics. This way the technology turns out to be able not only as a tool for real-time operational overview [...]
Podcast: How is maintenance performed in process plants?
Transcription: Hello, welcome to Vidyacast the smart doses of industry innovation podcast. Today, we’re going to talk about how digital transformation can be a decarbonization accelerator! Even with the constant efforts for a net-zero future, the emissions of GHG gases remain quite problematic and above the established goals. In this scenario, digital transformation appears as essential to monitor the emission of gases into the atmosphere and increase the efficiency of processes, allowing gradual decarbonization of the industry in general and sustainable growth. Combined technologies, besides allowing the better monitoring of an operation, provide one of the greatest benefits [...]
COP-27: What industries should be expecting in this year edition
Intro The COP (United Nations Climate Conference) is an annual event organized by the UN with the objective of centralizing the debate about the role of nations in relation to the need for global warming contingency and reaffirming the commitments made by countries. The event takes place between November 6th and 18th in Egypt, where several actions necessary for the prospection of investments, technologies, and policies that reaffirm the commitment to the global climate treaty by the UN will be discussed. In this post, we will talk about the issues that will be addressed at this year's event and [...]
O que é gestão de segurança operacional
Intro A indústria de petróleo e gás é caracterizada pela exploração de petróleo e gás natural em ambientes extremamente hostis e que geram constantes riscos às pessoas, ao ambiente e também a integridade da planta. Operações offshore são caracterizadas pela sua alta complexidade, muitos processos ocorrendo simultaneamente em dezenas de milhares de ativos pesados. Neste cenário a gestão de segurança operacional tem como objetivo desenvolver procedimentos internos com intuito de evitar acidentes e municiar decisões assertivas aos tomadores de decisão. O que é segurança Operacional? Como mencionado anteriormente, a gestão operacional trata-se em desenvolver sistemas de gestão de segurança, [...]
4 Digital Twin Applications you should know
The digital twin is a digital technology that has been widely used by industry in a variety of applications. A digital twin is a virtual replica of a real asset that has a continuous flow of data between the two parties. The connectivity provided by the technology is one of the many reasons it has been incorporated into many functions in different industries. Read on: Not familiar with a digital twin? Click here and understand the key concepts behind this technology. In this blogpost, we will show you 4 types of digital [...]
How is corrosion monitoring performed in industrial plants ?
Main challenges and opportunities of industry 4.0 for corrosion monitoring Corrosion of metallic components is a natural process that requires the attention of many industries, with emphasis on industrial process plants, such as oil and gas, petrochemical, and mining, which are inserted in environments with a high degree of corrosiveness. Corrosion cannot be completely avoided, so the objective of industries is to delay this process as much as possible so that there are no failures, or interruptions in the operation and prolong the useful life of the asset. Corrosion of components such as piping, [...]
