I recently read an interview of Raj Batra, President of Industry Automation Division, by Bill Lydon of Automation.com. The interview was titled Siemens Digital Plant Vision. Read more...

Raspberry Pi: A lot of people have been waiting anxiously to get their hands on this new, inexpensive Linux based single board computer (www.raspberrypi.org). Guess what? We’re hoping to hear from some of you that have been thinking about project where you want to make the world smarter by embedding intelligence on a SBC running KSX. A killer combination for sure!

We’ve already got units on order to begin creating our first KSX for Raspberry Pi System. Neural network models, genetic algorithm optimizers and fuzzy logic in a nice IDE to control anything. That’s our vision! Read more...

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KSX is the most powerful expert system software in the world. It was designed to let process control engineers create rule and model based solutions to control problems as quickly and easily as possible. Sometimes you want to let others interact with the system, but not give them access to all that power. This is often the case with control room operators. It would be great to give them insight into the strategy's operation, but without the ability to change anything. Many times we have solved this problem by creating specific pages for them in the HMI of the underlying control system. Read more...

Now that we have OPC events triggering rule scripts in KSX, I wanted to develop a simple and elegant way to process the events. On a couple of different projects, I have used the concept of a filter graph, that is, a chain of connected filters that can each consume, alter and/or pass on incoming objects to other filters further down the graph. The very core of KSX is the node tree, which is simply an object graph. Read more...

On a recent visit to a client site in Chile, the process control team expressed their dismay at the overwhelming number of alarms that the control room operators must acknowledge daily. This alarm volume led to the operators generally ignoring most alarms, and also led to the problem that import alarms were easily overlooked as they were buried in the long list of alarms from the plant. Read more...

Here is an interesting trick that allows you to monitor your Windows processes with KSX. You can leverage the KSX shell function with the Windows tasklist command.

The following windows batch code will return the memory use of the ksxserver.exe application.

@echo off
tasklist /fo table /nh /fi "imagename eq ksxserver.exe" > tasklist.txt

His Excellency José Goñi, Chilean Ambassador to the United States, made a visit to Utah on October 8th & 9th. KnowledgeScape had the privilege of being the only Utah business on his itinerary. We were able to visit with the ambassador and discuss our services and software, KSX. Read more...

If you have an HMI, you have a visualization and interface tool to aid you in your operation and decision making. Your HMI presents you with the data that you need to operate your process. In the process of installing and designing the HMI you have decided what data the operators, engineers, and/or management need to make the necessary decisions to best suit your business. You may have aggregated data or shown the state of some piece of equipment, etc. All of this data has been designed so that people in your organization can make the right choice. Read more...