Digital Twin

The management of infrastructure assets worldwide is approaching a perfect storm of client, technological, regulatory, fiscal, and market change. Disruption is everywhere.

Digital Twin Shifting stakeholder expectations and growing market demands are forcing organisations all over the world to more effectively manage their assets, their impact and deliver better business outcomes.

How do you gain a deeper understanding of your asset? And how can you translate that knowledge into better experiences for your customers?

Too often we see the mismatch of intent and outcomes when it comes to deploying Digital Twins. That’s because immediate concerns and novelty technology overshadow the initial purpose which is driven by business needs.

We take a different approach.

Our methodology discovers and defines critical business processes and workflows, which deliver outcomes, before attempting to create a Digital Twin to support those processes.

With this approach, and by combining deep infrastructure expertise with our digital capabilities, we can develop Digital Twins that truly replicates the intended operations of the asset.

Our Digital Twin approach has been designed to recognise the full range of contexts, business challenges and industries in which Digital Twins can benefit organisations.

Our approach enables the Digital Twins to:

Address the essential asset-centric business challenges
Scale from simple assets to complex infrastructure networks as required
Be deployable across the entire asset lifecycle from conception to retirement
Be in an open standard environment that supports the technology partner ecosystem
Be deeply informed by experienced, asset-intensive industry professionals

Value

We understand the value that Digital Twins provide:

Triple Bottom Line

Improve the triple bottom line through:

Human machine interaction
Training and induction
Site monitoring
Environmental monitoring
Stakeholder management
Risk management and cyber security
Site security
Technology deployment impact (cultural and workflow change)

Customer Experience

Enhance customer experience through:

Live service advice for utilities
Quality of service measures
Performance communications
Impact communication

Capital Expenditure

Deliver reliable projects through:

Digital project delivery
Visibility to enable action
Process automation
Digital engineering, 4D and 5D
Dashboards
Common data through lifecycle of an asset
Reduce project costs
Faster handover

Operations

Increase yield and performance of operations through:

Supply chain, logistics digitisation
Data integrity and governance
Improving efficiency of processes
Digitising
Technology deployment impact (cultural and workflow change)

Asset Management

Optimise asset performance through:

Finding materials
Predicting outcomes to optimise costs
Reducing inventory costs
Reducing costs of shutdowns and minor projects
Controlling overall equipment effectiveness
Meeting planned requirements

Technology

Increase the value gained from technology through:

Digitising brownfield assets
Developing digital roadmaps
Developing a digital strategy
Technology decisions
- Assessments and comparisons
- Scouting
- Partnering
IT/OT convergence architecture
How to leverage data

Market

Here are the main drivers within each market which are leading to the need for Digital Twins.

Water

Optimising supply and demand management maintenance
Workforce management
Automating processes
Drought monitoring and governance
Water catchment identification and monitoring

Energy & Resources

Gain operational efficiencies: integrate operational technologies with IT systems to provide seamless processes
Rethink business models: decide how to update the grid to deliver on changing customer needs

Property & Buildings

Constantly seeking better facilities management, with monitoring of water, energy and air quality all important contributors

Transportation

Intelligent transport systems
Digital systems (signaling)
Transport management centres
Integrated congestion management
Concept of operations