Robotics and Intelligent Assets – NASA and Woodside Collaboration

Woodside is applying technologies to provide better than human awareness, enabling our people to work more efficiently while reducing exposure to health and safety risks in the oil and gas environment.

Woodside is currently deploying wireless Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) and robotic technologies that stream data relating to condition monitoring and operator surveillance directly from our facilities to our analytics platform. Our growing data science team then works to transform the raw data into insights for action. Along with our research collaborators (e.g. NASA, University of Texas, CSIRO and Boeing), Woodside is pioneering autonomous and teleoperated robotic manipulation of equipment.

Woodside looks forward to sharing our learnings, experiences, successes and challenges in deploying advanced technologies such as IIOT, Robotics and Data Science.

About Our Speaker: Shawn Fernando, Head of Robotics, Woodside Energy

Shawn has over 17 years of industry experience spanning multiple industries including the military, aerospace and the resource sector. Prior to joining Woodside, he was an asset integrity specialist and operations manager for an engineering consultancy.

Shawn has held roles within Woodside as a Facility Engineer, Engineering Team Leader, Operations Manager and Offshore Installation Manager. He now leads the robotics team within the Technology function of Woodside.

Shawn has a BSc and BE with Honours as well as an MBA with Distinction from the University of Western Australia. Shawn is also a Chartered Professional Engineer, Engineering Executive and Fellow of Engineers Australia.

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