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Six keys to success when implementing and operating digital twins

Digital twins are one of the hottest topics in digital transformation. As a cross-company concept, they promise many benefits, including faster prototyping and transparent collaboration between design, testing and prototyping, to improved asset availability and OEE in manufacturing, and lower operational cost of equipment in the field.The predicted growth rates and market volumes for digital twins across all industries are promising. According to Markets and…

Managing a dynamic grid - Automation and intelligence for a data-driven grid

For every utility company, or at least for every DSO, the operational landscape has changed forever. This is thanks to fundamental changes both to the grid, and perhaps even more importantly, to the pursuit of sustainable business performance. Dramatic changes to the grid have a direct and far-reaching impact on the practice of operational management. We cannot expect the…

What is digital decarbonization and why is it important for CIOs?

In times where climate protection is no longer an option but an imperative, data and digital technologies have proven to be crucial in achieving a net-zero world. They can help reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, strengthen resilience to climate-related natural hazards and improve organizational capacity to act. There is no doubt that digital and decarbonization will go hand in hand as catalysts for…

The change behind numbers

In my previous blog, I set the scene exploring how the infrastructure management world is turning into a software engineering business. Let’s focus today on cloud transformation and how infrastructure management is evolving. Charting the evolution of infrastructure management Managing an infrastructure business, like many other IT domains, has changed dramatically over time. It can be summed up by the following eras: The onsite-centric phase, when IT teams had to be onsite, dedicated to…

Improving weather and climate forecasting – Why collaboration between domain scientists and High-Performance Computing experts is key

Weather and climate forecasts are vital tools to help save lives and to protect property and the natural environment. Indeed, extreme weather events such as storms, floods and extreme temperatures have a huge impact on communities all over the world and result in significant financial costs, too – the European Environment Agency reported…

Frictionless working in energy & utilities: Enhancing employee experience for the field workforce

Keeping the lights on, keeping the water flowing. Maintaining business as usual during the pandemic has been critical for the E&U field workforce. Technology played an essential role by enabling new digitally distributed ways of working. In our sector we are seeing a great ‘digital divide,’ where companies that had embarked on their digital journey prior to the pandemic were…

Faster, easier and cheaper technology transfer: a new differentiator for pharma and biotech companies

In the pharma and biotech industry, the process of technology transfer plays a critical role in the journey from initial concept through to commercialization of a new medicine or product. Yet today’s processes are slow and costly – which is where digital technologies can be transformative. Technology transfer refers to the transfer of all relevant knowledge about how a…

Digital twin: taking energy and utilities condition-based maintenance to the next level

From my experience of digital transformation in the energy & utilities sector, the biggest potential – for cost savings and operational benefits – is around how plant assets are operated and maintained. Given the millions of euros required to keep plants going, the challenge has existed for decades: how to maximize the value and life of assets while maintaining quality…

The future of asset management: creating more value out of data

Are you ready for the challenges and opportunities of managing applications in a multi-vendor, multi-cloud, hybrid environment? If the answer to the above is no, it may not just be a matter of a poor competitive advantage. It could be a failure to understand that the future is data-driven, adaptive, agile and connected. Successful companies understand the need for enabling informed decision-making processes…

Everything you always wanted to know about AR/VR but were afraid to ask…

I feel there is a landslide coming up. A landslide that is like the paradigm shift we had in the 1990s when we left the command line interface era and entered the world of graphical user interfaces. What started as cutting-edge technology at a Xerox PARC lab some 50 years ago is now taken for granted. Today nobody would seriously…

A concerted (r)evolution: accelerating decarbonization across the energy and utilities ecosystem

The pandemic has placed health, social and environmental considerations very much in the spotlight. Businesses are taking stock of the ongoing and wider relevance of their organizational purposes. Across today’s smarter greener energy ecosystem, energy & utility companies are in a unique position to champion major advances in decarbonization using digital technology as the critical enabler. Even before the crisis, there was some…

Digital twins - demystified

In the physical world of products, operational realtime data is generated almost as a bi-product. These data sets can be extremely diverse and have not been designed for analysis or for carrying out artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML). It can be hard to realize their value. Digital twin appraoch to solving business challenges can really help here. In order to understand this raw data, companies hire data scientists to put…