Cognascents and MiraCAD Forge Strategic Alliance for Enhanced Client Support

Cognascents Consulting is pleased to promote its strategic alliance with MiraCAD Technologies, a powerful collaboration aimed at elevating client support in risk reduction, operational efficiency, and regulatory compliance. This collaboration combines Cognascents’ extensive domain knowledge and established engineering workflows with MiraCAD’s leading-edge reality capture and asset visualization solutions. Together, we’ve optimized inspection and maintenance strategies,…

Potential OSHA PSM (29 CFR 1910.19) Changes

On October 12th, 2022, OSHA held a virtual informal stakeholder meeting to give the public a chance to provide testimony regarding several potential changes and provisions to the current Process Safety Management (PSM) Standard (29 CFR 1910.119). Potential changes could include:  Clarifying the exemption for atmospheric storage tanks;  Expanding the scope to include oil- and…

Vision for Future Growth

On Friday, 05 February 2021, the Cognascents Consulting Group, Inc., welcomed aboard four new minority shareholders – Justin Daarud, Jeffrey Miller, Norberto Pineda, and Billy Wimberly.  The four new minority shareholders join Najib Melhem (minority interest), Colette Perez (founding shareholder), and John Perez (founding shareholder) in the Cognascents ownership structure. In the face of a…

Top 10 Things You DIDN’T Know About Cognascents

We have navigated the COVID-19 pandemic without a reduction in workforce – in fact we have grown 15% since March 2020. We frequently travel and work offshore to support asset integrity projects – hurricanes and viruses may slow us down, but they do not stop us. We have an extremely competitive office fantasy football league.…

IPEIA Pre-Conference Workshop

Proper design, installation, and maintenance of overpressure protection and protective devices are critical to ensure plant safety. Join Justin and Norberto in Banff on Wednesday, February 26, 2020 at 10am for discussions on Overpressure Protection Requirements. The goal of the workshop is to provide an understanding of the requirements set in ABSA’s AB-512b Section 4.19…

Cognascents Celebrates!

With the holiday season in full swing, we took some time to enjoy some good food, good company, and good music! This year, our own Cognascents (mostly) house band provided fabulous entertainment for our company holiday celebration. A good time was had by all! Happy holidays!

Cognascents Announces New Partnership with Antea

  Cognascents is pleased to announce a signed agreement to partner with Antea for licensing, distribution, and delivering 3D and digitization technologies as a systems integrator. This partnership allows for improved assistance in asset intensive organizations and the management of the integrity of their assets. Antea’s tool, Palladio, offers a web platform that manages multiple…

Meet Noel, Maria & Paul

Meet our newest team members! Please join us in welcoming Noel Moreno, Maria Ordonez and Paul Vitolo to the Cognascents team. Noel and Paul joined us in late spring, while Maria came on board this summer. They are a great asset to our team and are ready to serve our clients. Join us in getting…