LEIDEN, NL. & MAIDENHEAD, UK (July 1st, 2003) UReason Holding B.V., a provider of user-friendly software tools enabling the end-user to efficiently capture and execute their knowledge, today introduced UDiagnose.
Whilst UReason's technology can be used generically in many situations, UDiagnose has been specifically tailored to enable value for the process industry. UDiagnose provides a great opportunity to gain and maintain a favourable Return On Investment and value of investment under a number of business scenarios.
Today, domain experts such as operators, process engineers and quality control managers are faced with many production-related problems, which are complicated further by continually evolving plants and processes, resulting in automated systems becoming rapidly outdated.
Traditionally, problems were solved by expert systems which have a number of serious limitations; these systems are difficult to fit into existing and future IT architecture and strategy. They are also cumbersome, difficult to test and costly to maintain, and the loss of domain experts often result in the loss of the expert system's application and enterprise knowledge.
As of today, UDiagnose enables you, the domain expert, to overcome your day-to-day problems and existing limitations by allowing you to reason with real-time and/or historical data in order to quickly and efficiently create your own value enabling point solution.
'I really believe in real-time fault detection and diagnosis.' says Prof.
Henk Leegwater, of DSM TechnoPartners. 'Since we are pushing our plants more to their constraints and hands on experience of operators is becoming less and less due to higher degree of automation, we need tools like Model Based Reasoning and Decision Support functionality'
UDiagnose is the new reasoning office suite for domain experts. It enables you to quickly realise process optimisation gains by:
+ Reacting to abnormal situations and determining their association with
other events;
+ Investigating problem sources;
+ Capturing and sharing knowledge;
+ Gathering heterogeneous information as a means to detect and analyse
current and future operations;
+ Automating diagnostic detection, when a plant, its people and
+ processes are continually evolving.
Using UDiagnose, domain experts can bring their knowledge to the surface and execute it in a comprehensible way, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
They are able to develop dynamic models connected to live or simulated data to detect abnormalities, react upon certain events and/or further analyse hypotheses or problems. The models can be based on built-in definitions which, in turn, are based on agreed ISA P&ID standards. The domain expert is able to reason over relationships between items in their domain, and can also review the reasoning path taken when reaching a conclusion.
UDiagnose is not only a tool to help the domain expert striving for process optimisation, it is also a software tool for System Integrators and Consultants. UDiagnose enables them to quickly develop intelligent point solutions for their customers.
About UReason
UReason has many years of international experience in the development, sales and support of real-time intelligent applications and products.
UReason operates on the market of software products that enable knowledge capture and execution. UReason's vision is to develop and market software products that overcome the traditional real-time expert systems limitations. UReason's products enable the domain expert to effectively capture, manage, share and execute his knowledge and to create real-time intelligent value enabling solutions.
UReason provides OEM organisations with a solid, cost effective platform for rolling out intelligent products.
For more details contact Lieven Dubois at +31-71-5281700, visit the
website: www.ureason.com or email ldubois@ureason.com.
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