Eva is one of the great minds in the Omnia.Prevent team that are helping us predict the future. While we have engineers who manually monitor these machines today, it’s a task that is both repetitive and at a large scale – making it perfect for machine learning.
Made to be used in our Integrated Operations Center (IOC), Prevent has already made a large impact, but it’s no magical fix that will take all our machine failure worries away.
“Some believe Prevent will replace engineers, but it's a new tool and a way of working that’s based on mathematics and data. Without engineers that help us understand the data before it goes into the algorithm, interpret the output and then actually fix the problem, Prevent would be pointless,” Eva explains.
It’s the close collaboration between our engineers and data scientists that has helped Prevent succeed. And in 2022 alone, Prevent helped us detect 200+ failures on heavy rotating equipment at our plants, saving us millions of NOK and improving safety. While it’s difficult to determine an exact amount – since we can’t measure incidents that don’t happen – there is no doubt that avoiding breakdowns brings value.
