Turning hazard studies into training people can walk through.

Most of my work starts with one question: what could go wrong?

Hello, I’m Amirsoleiman. I trained as an aerospace engineer and moved into process safety, working on hazard studies, risk assessment and consequence modelling. That work showed me how much depends on people understanding equipment they rarely see in full. Today I work on that problem at Techcopter, the company I founded in 2022, and in the articles and talks below.

Based in Kuala Lumpur. Outside Techcopter, I volunteer as Programme Director at Afghanistan Education Action, a UK education charity.

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Water bath heaterHTR-101Explore
Cutaway, operation
and failure modes

Speaking. Talks and panels, recent and upcoming.

Topics have ranged from hazard analysis and digital twins to AI infrastructure and hybrid production.

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Coming up. Sessions scheduled for the rest of 2026.

18 November.

Next: Digital Construction North, Manchester

From reality capture to safer sites: Building VR-enabled digital twins for safety training

Digital Construction NorthManchester · 18 Nov 2026

How AI-Powered Digital Twins & Spatial Computing Are Advancing Manufacturing, Energy & Scientific Innovation

Hongqiao Tech WeekShanghai · 21 Nov 2026

A talk at XR Asia Summit 2026. Title to be announced.

XR Asia SummitKuala Lumpur · 1–3 Dec 2026

Publications. Articles on process safety, training and the place of AI in both.

Processing Magazine

How VR, digital twins and AI can strengthen industrial training, process safety

Article · 11 August 2026

On turning incident lessons, operating procedures and HAZOP findings into practical training for industrial teams, using VR, digital twins and AI.

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The article page on processingmagazine.com
The AI Journal

AI-Enabled Hazard Identification from P&IDs in Industrial Workflows

Article · 5 August 2026

A technical look at reading P&IDs with computer vision, text extraction and graph models, and drafting preliminary hazard scenarios for an engineer to review.

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The article page on aijourn.com
Occupational Health & Safety

AI-Assisted HAZOP: Turning Safety Meetings into Immersive Worker Training

Article · 26 June 2026

Where AI can help prepare and run HAZOP studies, and how the findings can become immersive training for workers, with engineers still making every decision.

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The article page on ohsonline.com
Offshore Technology

From HAZOP to immersive risk simulation: how VR will improve safety in oil and gas

Opinion · 21 May 2026

An opinion piece on where VR fits in oil and gas safety: HAZOP provides the structure, consequence modelling sets the risk boundaries, and VR adds spatial understanding without replacing QRA or engineering judgement.

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The article page on offshore-technology.com

Forthcoming: an article in Hydrocarbon Processing, December 2026.

Experience. What I’m building, and the background behind it.

Current work

Founder & Director · since 2022
Techcopter / interactive equipment and XR training
Process equipment is hard to understand from drawings, and most people never see inside it. Techcopter builds interactive 3D models that teams can open in a browser or headset, showing how a unit works, how it fails and what protects it.
  • Available now: an equipment library of process plant and machinery, explorable component by component
  • Available now: optimising CAD models for AR and VR
  • Project work: VR-enabled digital twins from LiDAR, Matterport and Realsee capture
  • Pilot: VR safety training for oil and gas teams, built in Unreal Engine
  • In development: more equipment, including a PEM electrolyser and a hydrogen compressor, and LMS integrations (SCORM, LTI, xAPI)
A Techcopter product
TechPHA / AI-assisted hazard analysis
Much of the preparation for a HAZOP is reading drawings line by line. TechPHA reads a P&ID and drafts the study; an engineer reviews, edits and approves every finding.
  • Live at techpha.com, with a free tier for one complete study
  • Findings move from AI-generated to engineer-approved, with evidence and approval history kept
  • LOPA with the SIL band computed from the protection layers; PDF, Word and Excel reports on paid plans
  • UK patent application filed in September 2026
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Aerospace engineering

BSc in Aerospace Engineering, with a grounding in engineering analysis and simulation.

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Process safety

HAZOP, LOPA and SIL studies, quantitative risk assessment, and fire and explosion analysis. TechPHA is built around these methods.