Risk and Hazard control hosted on Cloud

We live in a modern industry based society where automation undoubtedly is the key for success. The technology has been changing over the last decades towards full control systems and the requirement specifications for Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) forms the central network for the process risk and hazard assessment to be carried out. Process Control has evolved very much in the last years. Plants become more complex, they require more efficiency and reduced costs while maintaining the product quality. Advanced process control appeared to be the most effective technology to realize these objectives, but it is not enough anymore. Process control and optimization represent the current base for safer and more efficient industrial plants, while risk management represents the base for new control algorithms and strategies. There is a stringent need for the enhancement of process operations at plant production management level, because plants should often operate near criticality, meaning in conditions far from ideal ones from the point of view of control and stability. Risk and hazard control is for sure one modern approach to keep plant running even under big perturbations or uncertainty. Emerging technologies used for design and implementation; modeling, simulation, concurrent engineering, on line diagnosis, merger techniques needs big computational capabilities that Cloud can offer.