Business Value We Deliver
We don't deliver isolated studies or temporary fixes. We engineer sustained business value at every stage of an industrial asset's life — from concept to decommissioning — by integrating technical reality, financial performance, and organizational capability.
Conceptualization & Design
Early decisions define 70% of an asset's total cost of ownership — yet most organizations lack formal methods to optimize them.
Our Approach:
We don't just evaluate designs — we formally optimize them using hybrid mathematical programming to prove which configuration maximizes long-term value.
Key Methods & Tools:
- •Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP) with CPLEX
- •PDEL® for linking equipment choices to EBITDA impact
- •KIAME© framework to align strategy with execution
Real-World Impact:
Optimized the design of a major LNG compression train, evaluating over 348 configurations under constraints on redundancy, maintenance logistics, and feed variability.
Business Value Delivered:
Proved 98.7% optimality; unlocked millions in EBITDA through superior system configuration.
Procurement & Contracting
Contracts often fail to protect business value because they focus on specifications, not outcomes.
Our Approach:
We apply the KVB-C2M® Value-Based Contracting Control Model to align vendor promises with real-world operational and financial realities.
Key Methods & Tools:
- •KVB-C2M® methodology
- •Fidelis RAM modeling to validate LCC assumptions
- •96-point evaluation matrix covering technical, financial, and risk dimensions
Real-World Impact:
Redesigned procurement strategy for a midstream power expansion project, requiring vendors to submit lifecycle cost models with uncertainty bounds.
Business Value Delivered:
Prevented value erosion due to specification-performance gaps; ensured contractual accountability for promised availability and reliability.
Commissioning & Operational Readiness
Assets often underperform from day one due to misalignment between design intent and built reality.
Our Approach:
We conduct pre-operational assurance inspections and build Integrated Decision Support Systems (iDSS) before startup, ensuring the asset performs as intended.
Key Methods & Tools:
- •Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) validation
- •Protocolo de Entrega Cash3_V03 QA process
- •Activo Digital development for immediate decision support
Real-World Impact:
Performed turbine inspections for a large pipeline operator, identifying critical alignment and lubrication issues prior to commissioning.
Business Value Delivered:
Avoided first-year downtime losses exceeding multiple millions; launched operations with a fully functional digital twin.
Operations & Optimization
Operators make daily decisions without understanding their full financial and risk implications.
Our Approach:
We deploy living iDSS platforms that simulate thousands of scenarios, enabling optimal scheduling, maintenance planning, and response to disruptions.
Key Methods & Tools:
- •AspenTech Fidelis for probabilistic forecasting
- •MiRO v1 (Minimizer of Operational Risk)
- •DECA® for energy-mass-economic flow modeling
Real-World Impact:
Developed a Digital Asset for one of Latin America's largest gas projects, allowing operators to explore compressor configurations under mixed-mode operations.
Business Value Delivered:
Enabled shift from diesel-based power to grid + solar, unlocking 3.4 million barrels of oil previously consumed for on-site generation.
Decommissioning & Legacy Value Capture
Organizations lose institutional knowledge when assets are retired.
Our Approach:
We institutionalize learning through RAMGEN Methodology, Prysma® RCA protocols, and competency building programs — turning experience into permanent capability.
Key Methods & Tools:
- •RAMGEN standardized modeling framework
- •Prysma® Root Cause Analysis with causal chain mapping
- •Kwvaat for value tracking and training certification
Real-World Impact:
Trained engineers at a national utility and defense sector organizations, establishing Colombia's first cohort of SMRP-certified professionals.
Business Value Delivered:
Clients now independently run models, validate results, and sustain improvements long after project completion.
Why This Is Not Consulting — It's Architectural Engineering
At Knar, we walk beside you — not above — through complexity. Our engagements produce value because:
We don't simplify reality
We model its full causality (PDEL®)
We don't guess optimal
We prove near-optimality (CPLEX, MIP, DP)
We don't deliver reports
We install cognitive infrastructure
We don't create dependency
We institutionalize competence
This is industrial maturity engineered — not advised.