Overview

Safety barriers are designed to prevent major accident hazards from occurring, usually represented in a Bowtie diagram. They are essential in high-risk environments. These barriers are not just physical objects; they consist of barrier functions that are directly linked to safety and environment critical elements (SECEs). Safety-critical elements and barrier functions can become impaired, reducing the effectiveness of the barrier structure. The Eigen Barrier Status Panel (BSP) continuously monitors the health of all safety barriers by tracking these impairments in real time. This enables teams to:

• monitor real-time barrier performance
• identify impairments early to prioritise maintenance and mitigation actions
• maintain a clear view of operational risk
• aggregate risk across the asset in different contexts
• access historical barrier status.

With Eigen BSP, you get a live, data-driven overview of barrier integrity, giving you the confidence and clarity to manage risk proactively and make informed decisions. It now also includes a new graph-RAG based AI chatbot to assist process safety engineers in assessing the safety position of industrial plants. It provides a simple, one-stop solution for quick and accurate information. Key capabilities include:

• querying safety status
• work order prioritisation to maximise plant safety measures
• recommended actions based on failure analyses.

Speaker

Joel Chacon, Chief Commercial Officer, Eigen

Joel works in designing commercial strategies, business plans and providing front-end consulting and technical project leadership. He has also been in charge of new business development and partner channels. He can combine his technical knowledge and experience of more than 20 years in digitalisation applied to oil and gas with business value sense, to ensure his clients get maximum value from solutions.

As a consultant, he has focused in the conceptualisation and development of the overall solution architecture of many application development projects, including bespoke, COTS applications, and their customisation to meet user requirements.

He has technically led company-wide programmes driving enterprise objectives through the research, development, deployment and early support of applications in the oil and gas and pharmaceutical sectors achieving significant value; playing diverse roles including project manager, technical lead and engineer consultant. Prior to Eigen, Joel worked for Lagoven, PDVSA, Petroleum Experts, Matrikon/Honeywell, bp, GSK and DOF Consulting Ltd.

Joel has completed a Masters in Advanced Security and Digital Forensics as well as having an MSEE in Control Theory from the University of Southern California.

The material presented has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenter’s own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or the Process Management and Control Special Interest Group. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.

Time

09:00–10:00 BST.

Software

The presentation will be delivered via Microsoft Teams. We recommend downloading the app from the Microsoft website, rather than using the web portal.