Kelvin

Kelvin delivers software that enables autonomous operations. It allows applications to continuously learn and take actions, to help safely improve industrial efficiency, increase production, and reduce emissions.

Industrial processes are already complex and operations teams do not have time or the right tools to optimize them for ever-evolving market demands. They are challenged with:

1. Attrition of subject matter experts leads to a loss of process know-how which slows down the evolution of production processes
2. Existing optimization know-how is locked in proprietary systems and manual workflows which makes it difficult and costly to maintain, evolve, and scale
3. Current applications and automation systems are not able to optimize for multiple objectives and take actions, across an entire system

Kelvin can help teams like those save up to 18% of Operations teams' time while optimizing thousands of assets.

How?

Kelvin is built using open, modern technologies and enables customers to extend their existing automation systems by turning their best practices into data-driven, action-oriented Smart Applications (SmartApps) that can optimize entire systems by taking actions on assets across the process.

Kelvin software empowers the engineers within the organizations and enables them to:

1. Transform their organization's engineering best practices into action-oriented SmartApps that can make closed-loop control decisions
2. Extend their current automation systems with data-driven SmartApps which can be easily deployed and centrally managed at scale across your entire operations
3. Track real-time application performance and business KPIs to gain immediate insights into the end-to-end operations for data-driven decision-making

Take the example of a production engineer within an upstream Oil and Gas company who is able to optimize a few progressive cavity pumps efficiently but struggles to scale this to thousands of assets, in real-time across the organization. Moreover, any equipment-level optimization must account for its system-wide impact.

Kelvin helps bridge this gap. It allows the engineer to convert their optimization methods into an automated application that leverages machine learning and data-driven insights, and - when allowed - can automatically adjust hundreds of control set points per day, in real-time. Additionally, engineers can review and confirm recommendations, letting them amplify their best practices across numerous assets.

Kelvin software includes:

1. SDKs and APIs for software engineers to transform logic or models built anywhere, into a Smart Application that can take action and measure its impact.
2. An intuitive UI where operations engineers can manage apps, monitor an app's impact, and act on app recommendations to improve their existing workflows.
3. A flexible control layer that enables Smart Apps to make safe control changes protected by set point guardrails, at edge or cloud
4. An open data layer with OT connectors that ingests and contextualizes data for building and running multiple applications

Return on Investment Customers have seen a 3x Return On Investment with Kelvin, in addition to meaningful operational improvements:

1. $10MM+ reduction in OpEx, by reducing repeated field visits for manual interventions
2. 74% reduction in methane emissions by optimizing multiple variables across a well pad system
3. 30% reduction in failures with applications that are now continuously optimizing assets, even when operations teams aren't available to do so.