Digital Twin - Corrosion Prediction and Digital Advisory System

Corrosion – it is a slow poison to plant equipment and pipelines. Its effects are often only apparent when the system has already sufficiently corroded, and destruction is either about to take place or already occurred.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation (here after will be referred as Yokogawa) and KBC (a Yokogawa company) developed a solution to this problem. Predict corrosion and inform plant people in advance so that operators can take corrective actions to avoid the disaster.

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Data Integration and Knowledge Management in the Process Industry

Digital systems were first widely implemented in the process industries in the 1970`s. Since then there has been a sea of process data and a proliferation of databases and many attempts to integrate them using data warehouses, middleware and web services. Most of these attempts have had limited success and are difficult to maintain and scale.

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