Maintworld 1/2019

DIGITALIZATION
DIGITAL LINE OF SIGHT
AARON BEAZLEY,
Bentley Systems, Inc.
Will a Digital Twin Become
a Key Element of Your
Digitalization Strategy to
Reduce Risk and Enable
Operational Excellence?
DIGITAL LINE OF SIGHt is a digital connection
(or thread) of data throughout
an asset’s lifecycle to ensure information
integrity, accuracy, and timeliness to access.
There are many reasons for an organization
to have a digital line of sight.
However, not all of the reasons to implement
digital line of sight are to realize
the assets’ value, some organizations
use digital line of sight to help ensure
corporate reputation and positive public
relations, as well as to ensure happy and
safe workers.
Asset management standard ISO
55001 introduced a structured way in
which to perform best-in-class asset
management and suggests that there
needs to be alignment from the corporate
goals to the asset management policy to
the asset management plans and tactics
used on each asset under management.
This alignment is the line of sight that
enables individuals and teams to understand
how their day-to-day actions match
up with long-term corporate goals.
Putting a digital line of sight in place is
essential when seeking to achieve business
objectives and efficiently deploy
scarce resources. This process is necessary
for organizations to execute in order
to excel in the future and deal with their
younger workforce – digital natives who
are inexperienced but expect access to
information at their fingertips.
With the massive amount of data
involved in managing assets, it is imperative
that line of sight is digitally supported,
ideally through an evergreen and
immersive digital twin.
The Backbone of a Good Asset
Management System
Connecting as-designed, as-built, and
as-operated information to the digital
twin in an open, connected data environment
enables management to make
fast and accurate decisions, and workers
are more productive when they
know the reasons behind their daily
activities.
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