Automation on Steroids: Robotics + AI From its very beginning, the promise of the digitized economy was to automate tasks that are too tedious or too error-prone for humans. In recent years, this promise has gotten a lot closer to reality: Autonomous robots inspecting complex objects, transactions being autonomously executed by software, and trustless environments to ensure compliance are just a few examples for businesses becoming far more efficient than they could have been only a few years ago by Klaus Sonnenleiter, CEO of Luftronix, Inc, and CTO of ELEKS; Sofia Barrios, Global Executive, Energy Sector

2. Gitex Conference
Sofia Barrios and Klaus Sonnenleiter
17 October 2021
Inspection Automations
Automations on Steroids:
Robotics and AI

3. 222
injuries
on rigs
6
deadly
cases
in the US alone for 2021
Source: Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement
The Problem with
Manual Inspections

4. Frequency of inspections is
controlled by API regulations
Producers lobby hard to
reduce the frequency because
of the loss of production.
More frequent
inspections would
allow better control
over maintenance
schedules
The Problem with
Manual Inspections
Frequency

5. The use of heavy machinery for
inspections adds an enormous
amount of carbon emissions to
an industry already criticized
for being inherently dirty.
The Problem with Manual Inspections
Carbon Footprint

6. The Problem with Manual Inspections
Financial Impact
$50,000
One day of interrupted
operations for an onshore
drilling rig
14
Average number
of days for an
inspection
$700,000
at least per inspection

7. Dilemma: Inspect More With Less and ESG
Inspect manually?
How often can we afford it?
Higher frequency would
allow better certainty in
predicting maintenance
requirements
Loss of equipment prevents
higher frequency – but at
the cost of increased risk
How this relates to ESG ?

8. Solution: Automate
Collect images
automatically
Use AI to detect
areas of interest
Avoid shutting down
equipment
Avoid lifting humans
on heavy machinery
Create reports in
days instead of
weeks

9. Automated Industrial Inspection
Zero Downtime
Zero
Operational
Loss
Repeatable
Better
Predictions
Avoid Climbing
Avoid Injuries
And Fatalities
Stop Machines
for Access
Save 90% of
Carbon
Emissions
Digitize Results
Analyze
Better
Repeat
process
often Drone inspection of Drilling Rig

10. Summary – Why We Automate
Today's Situation
• Expensive
• Risky for humans
• No audit
• Reactive
• Unable to increase
frequency
Tomorrow's Improvements
• Much less expensive
• No humans at risk
• Digitized records
• Preventive
• Increasing frequency without
penalty to the business