Providing Clean Water Infrastructure with Digital Workflows
Bentley Systems
January 31, 2022
Larsen & Toubro is helping the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh fulfill its mission to provide drinking water to every household.
It is unbelievable (a shame really) that by 2025, 3.5 billion people will live in water-scarce regions due to the growing drought issues brought on by climate change and increasing population. This means they have difficulty accessing a clean, safe water supply on a daily basis. And by 2050, more than half the world’s population could be living in water-stressed regions due to the impact of urbanization.
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Tags: Sustainability, Digital Twins
Water: Every Drop Matters
LinkedIn
October 25, 2021
Water utilities are responsible for a complicated system of buried infrastructure like pipes and valves along with treatment and storage facilities, pumps, and outfalls. Many components were put into place decades ago; some—particularly collection systems—can be well over a century old in some areas.
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Tags: Sustainability, Digital Twins
Worth-the-Read Opinion Brief on PlantSight
LinkedIn
July 15, 2020
Monica Schnitger of Schnitger Corp. is passionate about the business of engineering IT. She is a well respected voice in the industry and is straight up when she writes about technology. That's why we asked her to interrogate our technology, interview some of our users and technical experts, and then summarize what she thinks about it. The subject is digital twins for the process industry. The solution is PlantSight and how it is helping to transform plants and people to support the necessary digital processes required for operational excellence.
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Tags: Digital Twins
The Digital Twin for IIoT and Digital Line of Sight
LinkedIn
December 14, 2019
As digitalization and IIoT adoption increase in an enterprise, data will grow exponentially. At the same time, the foundational engineering information about your asset(s) changes over time, with every sensor you add and every design modification you make to improve performance. As a result, accessing the right data at the right time can be time-consuming and troublesome if you are not sure of its accuracy. Digital line of sight means that you have the proof (in digital format) of accurate information to make decisions and that workers have the proof (in digital format) of the reasons behind their daily activities.
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Tags: Digital Twins
Digital Twins Drive the Digital Enterprise
LinkedIn
December 17, 2018
Does it take you too much time and effort to gather and verify the data you need to make important decisions? Are you confident that the information you have is up-to-date and do you know what has changed over the life of the asset? When the consequences of asset failure are severe, high reliability is essential and so is seamless access to accurate asset information.
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Tags: Digital Twins
The Maintenance Decision Process Starts With Information
LinkedIn
March 21, 2018
“Decision: The act or process of deciding; determination, as of a question or doubt, by making a judgment.” We make thousands of decisions – some significant, some insignificant – every day. Some better, some worse, some right, some wrong. The common denominator is that all decisions are based on information.
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Tags: Management
The Information Model Lives On...
LinkedIn
January 12, 2018
There are few things as enduring through the lifecycle of an asset or facility as its information model, even including the physical asset itself. Thinking of the 150 year information model; designers and operating personnel, technologies and software applications would have come and gone, but the information will need to prevail and continue to provide accurate, timely and relevant information to workers needing to operate the asset / facility efficiently and safely.
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Tags: Management
Access to information is critical throughout all phases of an asset’s lifecycle
LinkedIn
July 04, 2017
One of the most significant issues associated with capital projects is the lack of accurate, complete, and timely project and engineering information. Not having access to the complete set of engineering information can add substantial operational risk in terms of cost, time, and safety. Accurate engineering information must be available and accessible once an asset is in operation. EPCs, project managers, and owner-operators all concur that access to information throughout all phases of capital projects is critical to meeting schedule and cost goals as well as ensuring safety and compliance.
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Tags: Management, Digital Twins
Using Machine Learning and Prescriptive Analytics to Optimize Maintenance
LinkedIn
June 05, 2017
The emergence of smart connected assets and making legacy assets “smarter” by adding more sensors, means a new and very large pool of information is being created to gain insight. This information, coupled with retaining the existing knowledge of the aging workforce, creates an opportunity for a new level of analytics that is prescriptive, powered by machine learning. The idea is that the analytical tool can not only predict what is likely to occur, but it can offer ‘what-if’ analysis of alternatives to provide a scenario that can help the outcome. Now we can make sense of all this raw data and can visualize solutions to optimize maintenance and gain better control over the operation.
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Tags: Analytics, AI
Technology is creating new data demands, and opportunities
LinkedIn
October 04, 2016
In asset intensive industries, the old model of bringing new assets online where engineering and operations are done in silos with limited interaction does not work. In the digitally transforming world in which we live, this model needs to change to be successful. The Industrial Internet of Things and smart connected assets are opening up whole new business models.
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Tags: Management
Is your asset information good enough? How do you know? Don't wait for disaster...
LinkedIn
September 01, 2016
For asset-intensive industries, good asset information can mean the difference between running a safe and efficient operation and having your CEO’s picture on the cover of the morning news! When industrial accidents happen, often the root cause is due to poor decisions that were made based on missing, incomplete or outdated asset information.
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Tags: Management
