Bowtie-Q^™: Revolutionizing Bowtie Analysis

Understand, Mitigate, and Master Your Industrial Risks

In the complex world of industrial facilities, ensuring safety and tolerability of risk isn’t just a goal, it’s a necessity. That’s where Bowtie-Q^™ comes in. As a powerful module within the Kenexis Integrated Safety Suite (KISS), Bowtie-Q^™ provides technical safety professionals with an intuitive, cloud-based, multi-user platform for comprehensive safety and risk analysis.

What is Bowtie-Q^™?

Bowtie-Q^™ leverages the widely recognized bowtie analysis methodology to help you visualize and quantify risk. It allows you to clearly map out causes (threats/initiating events), safeguards (preventative and mitigative barriers, including Independent Protection Layers – IPLs), top events, and consequences. More than just a diagram, Bowtie-Q^™ brings a quantitative dimension to your risk assessments, providing crucial calculations for mitigated cause frequency, top event frequency, and consequence frequency.

Why Choose Bowtie-Q^™?

Cloud-Based & Multi-User: Collaborate seamlessly with your team from anywhere, anytime. KISS provides an enterprise-level platform for all your technical safety and risk analysis activities.
Comprehensive Risk Visualization: Clearly understand complex incident scenarios, identifying potential failure points and the effectiveness of your existing safeguards.
Quantitative Insights: Go beyond qualitative assessments. Bowtie-Q^™ calculates critical frequencies, helping you make data-driven decisions about risk reduction measures and whether your Target Mitigated Event Likelihood (TMEL) criteria are met.
Robust Documentation: Track revisions, add recommendations, and document personnel responses for a complete audit trail of your safety studies.
Intuitive Interface: Designed for safety professionals, the Bowtie-Q^™ interface makes data entry and diagram construction straightforward.
Integrated Quantitative Analysis: Seamlessly connects with our Fault-tree Analysis Tool (Arbor™) and SIS Lifecycle Management System (Vertigo™) for a holistic approach to risk assessment.

Key Features at a Glance

Study Management & Collaboration

Study Dashboard: Get a high-level overview of your bowtie studies, including administrative information and a summary of results.
Revisions Grid View: Track changes to your bowtie analysis model, documenting who made changes, when, and who checked and approved them.
Recommendations Grid View: Document proposed changes to system designs based on your analysis, including priority, responsible party, and status.

Powerful Bowtie Diagramming

Interactive Bowtie Interface: The central hub for building and visualizing your bowtie diagrams.
Study Data Tree View: Easily navigate between different bowtie diagrams and their associated safeguards within a study.
Flexible Workspace Controls: Add, edit, delete, and rearrange causes, safeguards, degradation factors, degradation controls, top events, and consequences with ease.
Zoom & Export: Adjust the diagram zoom for optimal viewing and save your bowtie diagrams as high-quality image files (.png).

Detailed Data Entry & Analysis

Detailed Forms: Input comprehensive information for each element of your bowtie diagram, including:
- Causes: Title, description, type, instrument tags, and frequency.
- Safeguards: Title, type, instrument tags, Safety Integrity Levels (SILs), probability of failure, and LOPA creditable status.
- Degradation Factors & Controls: Analyze factors that can degrade safeguard performance and implement controls to mitigate them.
- Consequences: Title, description, severity categories, and TMEL frequencies with clear indicators of compliance.
- Top Events: Define and manage the central hazardous event.
Risk Criteria View: Define and manage associated risk matrices, likelihood categories, consequence categories, and risk rankings to standardize your numerical risk analysis.
Quantitative Calculations: Automatically calculate:
- Mitigated Cause Frequency
- Top Event Frequency
- Consequence Frequency
- TMEL Criteria Compliance

Ready to Elevate Your Risk Analysis?

Join the many technical safety professionals who trust Kenexis for their risk management needs. Request a live demo or see below for a free 30-day trial and pricing information.