An expert system for safety instrumented system in petroleum industry

Abstract

The expert system technology has been developed since 1960s and now it has proven to be a useful and effective tool in many areas. It helps shorten the time required to accomplish a certain job and relieve the workload for human staves by implement the task automatically. This master thesis gives general introduction about the expert system and the technologies involved with it. We also discussed the framework of the expert system and how it will interact with the existing cause and effect matrix. The thesis describes a way of implementing automatic textual verification and the possibility of automatic information extraction in the designing process of safety instrumented systems. We use the Protégé application [*] to make models for the Cause and Effect Matrix and use XMLUnit to implement the comparison between two files of interest.