Process safety
Every change, work permit and incident must be analysed and documented.
Industries / Chemicals & petrochemicals
AI for process safety and plant reliability.
Chemical and petrochemical sites combine major industrial risks, ageing installations and dense regulation. WAICE helps them use operating history, make industrial applications more reliable and introduce AI without weakening safety.
Challenges
What teams are dealing with.
Ageing installations
Units have run for decades; maintenance and inspection weigh heavily on costs.
Scattered data
Process historians, CMMS, inspection reports and lessons learned remain siloed.
Exposed industrial systems
Connecting control systems to corporate networks widens the attack surface.
What WAICE brings
Five angles, one method.
Business
Process safety, maintenance and inspection
- Analysis of incidents and near misses
- Turnaround preparation
- Support for work permit drafting
Data & AI
Process historians, CMMS, inspection reports and lessons learned
- Lessons-learned knowledge base
- Drift detection on process data
- Maintenance data quality
Infrastructure & applications
Control systems, CMMS and plant applications
- Controlled IT / OT integration
- Plant application modernisation
- Support of industrial applications
Cybersecurity
Industrial systems (OT) and classified sites
- IT / OT segmentation
- IEC 62443 approach
- AI use without exposing process data
Regulation & compliance
Seveso III, environmental permitting, REACH, NIS2 for entities in scope
- Traceability of risk analyses
- Documentation for inspections
- Mapping of AI uses under the AI Act
Depending on its role in plant safety, an AI system may fall under the AI Act's stricter requirements: this is scoped before deployment.
Use cases
Where to start.
Usable lessons learned
Find similar incidents, their causes and the actions taken, across all sites.
Measured by
- analysis time
- incident recurrence
- actions closed
Turnaround preparation
Consolidate history, inspection reports and constraints to prepare turnarounds faster.
Measured by
- preparation time
- schedule overruns
- unplanned work
Predictive maintenance
Detect early signs of drift on critical equipment from process data.
Measured by
- unplanned shutdowns
- availability
- maintenance costs
Regulatory watch
Track regulatory changes and identify their impact on site procedures.
Measured by
- time to compliance
- audit findings
- monitoring effort
Team
Profiles we deploy.
IT profiles today, joined over time by business experts from each industry.
- IT / OT project manager
- CMMS consultant
- Industrial data engineer
- AI consultant
- Industrial cybersecurity expert
- Application support engineer
Transformation programmes
Start small, be ready to scale.
Our founder has worked on large-scale transformation programmes in international groups. WAICE starts with a controlled scope (one site, one function, one use case) and then scales up with a network of selected consultants and experts.
- A first scope delivered within weeks
- Governance designed for scale from day one
- Teams built around your needs, IT and business
How we start
Four steps, at your pace.
- 01
Diagnostic
A one-hour or half-day session to qualify a use case, a risk or a decision.
- 02
Scoping
Scope, data, systems, regulatory constraints and success indicators.
- 03
Delivery
Development, integration and deployment, alongside your teams.
- 04
Run
Maintenance, support and continuous improvement, with clear service commitments.
Other industries
Aerospace & defence
Airworthiness, configuration, technical documentation: making AI useful where every decision must be traceable.
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Grids, substations, generation: keeping AI maintainable in infrastructure that never stops.
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Ports, warehouses, transport: making flows, data and documents more reliable.
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Production, quality, maintenance: connecting the shop floor with enterprise systems.
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R&D, quality, production: AI designed for GxP environments.
Explore the industryBanking & insurance
Compliance, customer relations, risk: controlled AI in a highly regulated industry.
Explore the industryStart with a concrete case.
Tell us about a decision, a process or a system you want to improve. We will tell you honestly whether AI is the right answer.