Dynamic Prediction of Risk Levels for Manufacturing Operations through Leading Risk Indicators: Dynamic Risk Analyzer Engine

摘要

The dynamic risk analyzer (DRA) provided by the present invention periodically assesses real-time or historic process data, or both, associated with an operations site, such as a manufacturing, production, or processing facility, including a plant's operations, and identifies hidden near-misses of such operation, when in real time the process data appears otherwise normal. DRA assesses the process data in a manner that enables operating personnel including management at a facility to have a comprehensive understanding of the risk status and changes in both alarm and non-alarm based process variables. The hidden process near-miss data may be analyzed alone or in combination with other process data and/or data resulting from prior near-miss situations to permit strategic action to be taken to reduce or avert the occurrence of adverse incidents or catastrophic failure of a facility operation.

主权项

1. A system for predicting risk levels for manufacturing operations with risk indicators comprising:
a server that receives process data from a real-time data source and/or a historical archive data source comprising a relational database with a key-value storage solution; a processor that analyzes values of parameters P and/or groups G of said parameters P of said process data at time interval T to identify operational risk and/or near-miss risk that would otherwise be unknown or concealed in parameters P, whereby said operational risk and/or near-miss risk may be used for strategic corrective action; and a display that presents said operational risk and/or near-miss risk in a graphic that visually depicts a plotted value V of parameter(s) P of said operational risk and/or near-miss risk in time interval T relationally within time period TP; wherein said system continuously and autonomously operates contemporaneously with said manufacturing operation.