Have ran into a few folks in the last month or so who have greatly over simplified Robotic Industrial Process Automation (RIPA) by assuming the technology is the same principals as Robotic Process Automation (RPA). RPA is primarily based on rules based logic....

 

There didn't used to be central control rooms so I can't help but wonder if our past is our future, just with a lot more modern tech. This is my short commentary on how I believe that in the decades to come, control room operators roles will become much more...

 

We have all heard it before - "we meet 100% of our contracted capacity". Cool, sounds great, but what does that actually mean?

 

Does that mean its impossible for a pipeline to move any more volume?

What about maintenance? What about unplanned...

 

I been adding my commentary all over recent KXL posts so figured I would elaborate via video blog.

 

I know of a great company called Crux OCM (*cough* that's us) that