WebinarThe Operating Envelope Gap Is Still Causing Major Incidents: How SOLs and IOWs Prevent Catastrophic Failure Live Webinar | Hosted by Cognascents About This Webinar Investigations of major industry incidents repeatedly reveal a common theme: facilities were operating outside critical process or equipment limits long before the event occurred. Whether the outcome is equipment damage,…
WebinarAI-Powered Asset Integrity: What’s Possible, What’s Working, and What’s Next Live Webinar | Hosted by Cognascents About This Webinar AI is being applied to asset integrity work right now, not as a future concept, but as a proven delivery model with documented results. This webinar is a practical, engineering-focused session that explains how AI-accelerated workflows…
NewsCognascents Announces AI-Amplified Engineering Services HOUSTON, TX — April 2026 Competence unleashed. Value multiplied. Process safety, asset integrity, and process engineering redefined for the demands of a new era. Cognascents Consulting Group, Inc., today announced the formal launch of its AI-amplified engineering services practice — a strategic expansion of the firm’s process safety, asset integrity,…
WebinarIs Your Piping Integrity Program Effective? Is RBI the Right Program? Live Webinar | Hosted by Cognascents Date: March 25, 2026 Time: 11:30 am CST Duration: 60 minutes (45-minute presentation + 15-minute Q&A) Register Now Register Here Webinar Overview Many operating companies have adopted Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) as the foundation of their piping integrity programs.…
NewsCognascents Celebrates 15 Years of Excellence, Integrity, and Growth Fifteen years ago, a shared vision to make the industry safer and to do things the right way, sparked the creation of Cognascents Consulting. Founded in 2010 by John and Colette Perez, a husband and wife and both experienced engineers, Cognascents began as a small process…
NewsCognascents Consulting Group Honored in HBJ’s 2024 Houston Fast 50 Cognascents Consulting Group is proud and honored to be recognized by the Houston Business Journal (HBJ) in their 2024 Houston Fast 50, which celebrates the fastest-growing private companies in the Greater Houston area. Being nominated and ranked among this prestigious group underlines Cognascents’ relentless dedication…
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
