A five-minute tour of the live plant

Open the Suite, watch a real upset on the demonstration plant, and see what moved first. No account needed.

The Suite runs DEMO-MBR, a generic 300 m³/d membrane bioreactor, on our server 24 hours a day, whether anyone is watching or not. It runs at 180 times real speed: one plant day takes about eight real minutes. Every module reads from this plant.

1. Open the plant

Go to platform.beedy.ca. The process line shows the plant from inlet to outfall: influent, equalization tank, bioreactor with its blower, membrane trains, effluent. Each unit shows its live values and a 24-hour sparkline. The status bar tells you whether an upset is active.

2. Pick an incident

Upsets happen on their own: an influent shock load, a return sludge (RAS) pump trip, an aeration blower trip, a loss of membrane air scour, or an alum dosing pump failure. There are 18 to 34 plant hours of quiet between them. Click Investigate in Trend in the status bar, or open Troubleshooting directly on the last incident.

3. See what moved first

The chart shows the incident as a shaded band. The What moved first panel lists the signals that left their normal pattern, in order, with direction and how far from normal. These are leads to check, not a verdict. See Troubleshooting.

4. Add what the crew saw

Click the chart at a moment, then Add observation: what you saw, heard, smelled or did. Crew notes join the timeline; a note made before any signal moved is flagged, because the cause may be something the instruments don't see.

5. Ask OTIS

OTIS's cards on each page say what needs attention now, with one-click actions. You can also ask him a question about the plant; he answers from the page's live data.

6. Follow it through

Draft the investigation from the incident in Process safety, issue a report in Reports, and hand over the shift in the Shift log.