Schneider Electric Reveals New Patent Introducing AI to Process Safety to Help Reduce Hazards

• Using artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance risk assessments and process safety studies.

• Semi-automate safety lifecycle activities.

Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, announced its patent to leverage AI to help reduce the likelihood process safety hazards. The innovation autonomously or semi-autonomously assesses potential process hazards and verifies protection mechanisms in an industrial setting. By utilizing an analysis tool, it helps prevent hazards by activating the necessary protective measures within the process.

As more industries embrace digital transformation and generate high-quality data, the advantages of implementing AI in day-to-day operations increases. This latest patent from the EcoStruxure™ Triconex Safety team has the potential to identify potential hazards and safeguards in a process.

Process safety management can then take advantage of industrial, real-time data to revalidate HAZOP studies to prevent industrial hazards and save lives.

This patent is part of a broader strategic effort to improve functional safety through AI. It enables the simulation of hazards under different conditions and the use of a process hazard analysis tool to develop protective mechanisms to prevent dangerous situations. Additionally, three other Schneider Electric patents integrating AI into the functional safety lifecycle are currently pending. News of the innovation comes as there is a growing interest in combining human ingenuity in functional safety analysis with strategic implementation of reenforced learning to prevent hazardous scenarios in industrial automation.

For more information enabling this innovation, contact Sheri Sammons, Schneider Electric’s Global Director of Functional Safety, at [email protected].