Digital energy management and automation specialist Schneider Electric's EcoStruxure™ has obtained a patent.
This will allow the company to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to reduce the likelihood of process safety hazards.
The technology is designed to automatically or semi-automatically analyse process hazards and validate protection mechanisms for industrial processes.
Companies can then prevent hazards by using the technology's analysis tool, allowing them to engage protective mechanisms.
The patent aligns with Schneider Electric's initiative to enhance functional safety using AI — making it possible to simulate a range of hazards and prevent them via a process hazard analysis tool.
Schneider Electric currently has three other pending patents, which focus on the incorporation of AI into the functional safety lifecycle.
“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 has the potential to create a more rigorous and robust HAZOP study, generating more combinations of scenarios and deviations then what was humanly possible before.”