Underground petrochemical pipelines are like blood vessels in the human body and are pipelines for transporting petrochemicals and natural gas for industrial and domestic use. Compared to surface vehicle transportation, underground long-distance pipeline transportation has unique advantages such as stability, uninterrupted supply, good safety, low volatility, low quality loss and low transportation cost. It is an important facility for life and economic growth. However, once a leak or rupture occurs, high-risk liquids and gases will be dispersed into the atmosphere, causing public safety risks such as fire, explosion or toxic substances and environmental pollution incidents. This is a topic of concern to the public.
According to statistics from the Bureau of Energy of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the total length of oil pipelines in Taiwan is 4,060.5 kilometers and natural gas pipelines are about 35,000 kilometers, not including industrial pipelines such as ethylene and propylene. According to the analysis statistics of major accidents in petrochemical plants, major accidents caused by pipelines cause an average economic loss of 2.4 billion yuan per time. The reasons include damage and rupture of process pipelines, as well as corrosion, sulfidation and oxidation brought by chemical substances in pressure vessel welds. A large amount of manual non-destructive testing is required to prevent unplanned shutdowns and large-scale industrial accidents such as fires and poisoning. This is a labor-intensive and highly technical job. Professional talent training is not easy. The industry urgently needs to introduce AI technology to establish a standardized basis for judging photos, reduce the load on inspectors, and improve the reliability of inspections.
Seeing this demand, AIWin Technology and ZOTECH Technology jointly created a non-destructive testing AI solution. AIWin Technology is responsible for the non-destructive testing AI platform and AI model algorithm. ZOTECH Technology is responsible for developing edge devices and integrating the entire software and hardware deployment to create a complete solution.
Dr. Lin Gengcheng, General Manager and Founder of AIWin Technology said that AIWin Technology has been researching non-destructive testing AI platforms and AI model algorithms for many years and has helped two users improve the speed of testing. The team archives traditional or digital NDT images through AIWin’s deep learning AI algorithm combined with national testing standards to interpret image characters and defects. In 2022, the non-destructive testing AI solution cooperated with ZOTECH Technology won foreign orders and continued to receive orders due to foreign trust. In addition, we are also closely discussing with foreign large group companies to jointly develop more comprehensive solutions.
ZOTECH Technology is a subsidiary of listed company Zero One Technology with 20 years of experience in R&D and manufacturing of network communication products and global marketing. Its customers are all over the world. In 2022, it also launched MagicBox AI inference machine products. Xu Yongwei, CEO of ZOTECH Technology said about this cooperation case that he was very happy to cooperate with AIWin Technology on non-destructive testing AI product solutions. Both parties saw that AI has gradually begun to land in every industry recently. Taking the non-destructive testing industry as an example, customer data is trained through AIWin Technology’s WinHub.AI to establish an AI model, and then the model is built into MagicBox for inference.
OTECH Technology first understands the real problems that customers want to solve through AI, helps obtain field data, trains AI models, establishes APIs between customer systems, finally deploys MagicBox hardware inference machines on site, and provides customers with AI management And inference machine management tools. CEO Xu Yongwei further pointed out that he hopes that AI can move away from doing projects towards a product model and receive orders through Taiwan’s good hardware in a software plus hardware sales business model to market it to the world.
The AI solution platform (WinHub.AI) proposed by AIWin Technology has accumulated results in multiple fields and provides complete and fast-to-introduce AI solutions for different fields. In addition, AIWin Technology not only has image AI technology but also develops expert systems and numerical AutoML solutions to provide field-specific technology and services in a one-stop manner to jointly create AI solutions.
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