Excessive complexity is a source of vulnerability and cause of loss of profitability. It also limits governability. To counter its effects it must be managed, hence it must be measured. Managing the complexity of processes and products already in the design phase, helps make them less fragile and more resilient.

Ontonix is the only company to have devised scientific means of measuring complexity and resilience of generic, even huge systems. Since 2005 we deliver the Quantitative Complexity Management Engine, OntoNet™.

OntoNet™ can be integrated into any IT infrastructure to monitor in real-time the complexity and resilience of:

  • Manufacturing and processing plants

  • Automobiles, aircraft, spacecraft

  • Supply networks (often referred to as supply chains)

  • ICT systems, networks

  • Critical infrastructures

  • Software systems

  • The Internet of Things


We identify the concentrations of complexity in a system or process and pinpoint those really critical to its resilience, governability and performance. In essence,

QCM is a new way to Analyze and Understand Data, Information and its Flow


The added value:

  • A real-time 'CAT-scan' of a system/process - this delivers totally new information and knowledge

  • Crucial information for Condition-based Maintenance

  • A novel means of Risk Stratification

  • Identification of hidden critical areas

  • Measure (not score!) of resilience

  • Early-warnings of increased exposure, crises and anomalies - this buys time

  • All your KPIs synthesized into one. Objectively.

  • A holistic picture of the situation


 

Complexity - an Attribute in the Engineering of Modern Products

 

QCM and Product Design

Managing the complexity of processes and products already in the design phase, helps make them less fragile and more resilient, helping reduce risk of collapses, malfunctions and liability (recall, warranty, law suit).

Modern products rely heavily on and interact with software. QCM is a bridge between physics and Information Theory, establishing new paradigms in product design.

 

Our complexity metric is bounded. The upper bound, known as critical complexity, is of paramount importance. It measures the maximum level of complexity a given process or product is able to sustain. In proximity of critical complexity systems are fragile, dominated by disorder and are non-governable.

Efficient, Well-Designed Systems Function far from their Critical Complexity

How far is your systems from it’s own critical complexity? Can you afford not to know?

Read more in a blog by CISCO.