Kairostech

Kairos Technology is a software company headquartered in Stavanger, Norway, with a second office at DTU Science Park in Lyngby, Denmark. It develops decision-support and risk-assessment software for the energy and process industries, with a product line comprising the Control Room Assistant (CRA), the HAZOP Assistant and Emissions Radar, alongside software services and engineering expertise in areas such as operability engineering, new energy systems, control room efficiency, optimized maintenance, root cause identification, digital HAZOP and greenhouse gas emission reduction.

The company's technology is grounded in Multilevel Flow Modelling (MFM), a functional-modelling theory developed by Morten Lind, Professor Emeritus at DTU, who is listed as a principal specialist on the Kairos team. Kairos combines deterministic modelling with propagation simulation and artificial intelligence with the stated aim of improving safety, reducing emissions, improving regularity and increasing production at industrial plants. Its digital HAZOP (dHAZOP) approach applies conventional HAZOP principles together with digitalization, functional modelling and data analytics to plant risk assessment. The company positions its software around the observation that industrial plants lose an estimated 3-8% of production profit to unplanned upsets or abnormal events.

The company name derives from the Ancient Greek term for the opportune or critical moment, reflecting its focus on situational awareness and guiding control room operators toward the right action at the right time.