Automated Risk Optimization for Technical Facilities

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current systems for managing the service life and risks of technical facilities are inadequate as they fail to evaluate and optimize the service life comprehensively, particularly for complex facilities, and struggle to adapt to changing conditions within risk management of portfolios, such as securities and insurance policies.

Innovation Solution

An automated system with a capture module for facility data, an analysis module for optimizing service life, and an evaluation module for risk analysis, utilizing decentralized sensors and databases to quantify risk and protection elements, along with dynamic normalization and extrapolation to provide up-to-date risk management and optimization.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If automated monitoring systems are used to track facility elements, then operating failures can be located and corrected quickly, but the systems cannot evaluate or optimize the expected service life

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefailure detection speedVSAvoidservice life evaluation capability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system combines multiple functions into a single automated monitoring platform that not only detects operating failures through real-time parameter monitoring but also evaluates expected service life by integrating maintenance history, operational data, and predictive analytics, eliminating the need for separate monitoring and evaluation systems

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Measurement precision

If existing risk evaluation systems are used, then quantitative risk elements can be monitored, but subjective risk factors and comprehensive service life optimization remain unconsidered

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequantitative risk measurementVSAvoidcomprehensive risk evaluation capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system creates a composite risk evaluation model that integrates both objective quantitative data from sensors and subjective qualitative factors from expert assessments, combining multiple data types and evaluation methods into a unified risk index that comprehensively reflects facility condition and service life potential

Inventive Principle:
Principle #40Composite materials

3Adaptability or versatility

If manual risk assessment methods are used for portfolios, then flexibility to adapt to changing conditions is possible, but substantial intervention and work are required

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveportfolio risk adaptabilityVSAvoidassessment efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements continuous feedback loops where automated monitoring data, maintenance outcomes, and risk assessments are continuously updated and fed back into the evaluation model, enabling the portfolio risk assessment to automatically adapt to changing conditions without requiring manual intervention, thus maintaining flexibility while dramatically improving efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS8165907B2System and method for automated risk determination and/or optimization of the service life of technical facilities
Publication Date: 2012.04.24 SWISS REINSURANCE CO LTD
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AI summary

A device and a method for automated optimization of the service life of technical facilities and/or risk determination of technical facilities. Facility data is captured by a capture module of the optimization device and facility risks are optimized by an evaluation module of the optimization device based on the facility data. At least one risk analysis value for automated risk management and/or facility optimization value for automated optimization of at least one protection device or minimization of a danger potential of the technical facility are determined by corresponding risk elements and/or protection elements.