Fuzzy Logic is a very powerful concept when applied to control systems. It allows control system designers to greatly reduce the number of rules necessary to deploy a desired control strategy. Additionally, it allows rules to be crafted in a very linguistic syntax. Finally, if properly designed, instabilities and hysteresis can be reduced or eliminated.

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As a process control or expert systems solution provider you solve problems. KSX is the ultimate problem solving tool for making you more money.

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For the past 28 months we've been designing, coding and testing KSX, our next generation expert control system. We have tried to apply all the lessons we have learned over our careers doing expert control to this product. We've sweated over the details, the performance, the scalability, the robustness. I truly think that what we have is special. KSX is a platform unlike any other. It's potential to create profit and cost savings in business is really unbounded. Read more...

KSX has a unique distributed computing architecture. The process control or business rules of an organization can be broken down into individual units. Each unit of business intelligence is then modeled in its own KnowledgeScape, which runs as its own autonomous process. Any KnowledgeScape can communicate with one or many other KnowledgeScapes to share information, provide higher level rules or to provide additional processing power for data mining, modeling or optimization. Read more...

Here at KnowledgeScape we are the most frequent users of our product. As we implement solutions for our clients using KSX we are hyper-sensitive to the usability of the client software. We want to make using the system as easy and pleasant as possible. Because of this, we have spent many hours refining and the KSX user interface so that the software facilitates the most rapid development of your project. Some of the things we have done to make the KSX user interface more efficient are:

• Created logical groupings of tools for the most common workflows.

KnowledgeScape™ provides a node tree graphical user interface. This is the center point for configuring the expert system. An object oriented approach is utilized, and the user can build "nodes" and "attributes" representing the various unit operations and data from the process to be controlled.

PlantVision™ provides the operator with valuable visual feedback about the froth quality through its easy to use user interface. The OPC communications provides the plant control system with all the essential data from the image analysis. Read more...

PlantVision™ provides the operator with valuable visual feedback about the particle size distribution through its easy to use user interface. The OPC communications provides the plant control system with all the essential data from the image analysis. The size and color information can integrated into KnowledgeScape™ expert control software to provide real time Sag mill and crusher control. Read more...

KSX communicates with the outside world using the OPC (OLE for Process Control) protocol. OPC is a standards based open communications protocol widely adopted in process control industries. We have been developing drivers for many years and can develop custom drivers where needed. No matter what, we can connect to your system.

We believe that a software system should be an extension of the user and that every action performed should reduce the need for that action in the future. KSX's templating system allows you to create nodes, node families, and attributes that contain all the powerful tools of KSX. These nodes at any level can be templated and copied. Templated copies are linked so that changes to one object are mirrored on all the others. Templates links can be created on similar nodes or broken when necessary. Read more...