BIM + SIM = Turning MegaProjects to MegaSuccesses

MegaProjects are MegaChallenges

Are you a stakeholder for an on-going or a new megaproject? It could be an new airport, a hospital, a stadium, a highway or  manufacturing facility with tens of thousands of assets. Project teams may be relying on a first class BIM Solution to manage your project, which is great, yet, you want to do better when it comes to the mega challenges of project cost, schedule and quality. Why? Simply, there is always room for improvement.
How to do better?
1.  Go beyond BIM with BIM+SIM
Why? Because SIM (System Information Model) can combine BIM asset data with critical EIT (Electrical, Instrumentation and Telecommuncation) asset information.
2. Improve the way your project teams collaborate over the entire project lifecycleWhy again? Because project teams develop enormous amount of data with various software applications used by different disciplines. This includes BIM data that describe thousands of assets, asset design data and project activities, supplier and cost data, schedule and work step data, construction, commissioning and handover completions, etc. Along the way, for this “tzunami” of data, quality, consistency and proper use suffers. Lack of data consistency and lack of adequate collaboration leads to frustration. And as time passes, finger pointing and confrontations begin. Procurement department blames Engineering, Construction blames both, and, at the end of the project lifecycle, Pre-commissioning and Handover blame everyone else.Digital Asset Delivery over the entire Project LifeCycle can help using Deming’s PDCA principles.Until now, there has not been a single framework that can bring together all tag - based, asset design data and project activities information in near real time, thus empowering effective collaboration for project teams.
Digital Asset Delivery, powered by DAD software and Deming’s Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) framework, can help megaproject teams and stakeholders do better. All project data comes together in a comprehensive, cloud-based environment, so that everyone can see, from anywhere in the world, and from any device (laptops, tablets and smart phones), all information about who did what, when and how, under a sustainable project governance framework for project data management.
Digital Asset Delivery combines BIM + SIM asset data from all disciplines and project activities over all phases of a megaproject lifecycle. Even with multiple contractors, projects and locations involved, this “game changer” approach can provide consistent information and collaboration globally including multi - contractor interface management.
Benefits from Cost, Schedule and Quality savings in megaprojects can be in the range of tens of millions of USD.

Industry 4.0 and Digital Asset Delivery

Industry 4.0 Challenges

In a 2017 article, Chemical Processing states that, while Industry 4.0 looks at the modes of production (such as moving toward modular production units for appropriate processes), the initial focus for IIoT tends to be more on connectivity, Big Data, and analytics to improve production asset availability and performance. Enter Digital Asset Delivery. This is about each asset original data (engineering), its lifecycle activity data (engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and maintenance. It is also about “as - built” data.
All of this is Big Data.
And what about  connectivity? Design of  process, piping, electrical, instrumentation and telecommunication systems originate in different engineering applications and their inter - connectivity is missed. Yet, there are more connectivities. Business processes and work steps, data flows, applications and functional blocks, organizational structures reflected in business process modeling swimlanes. And there is more. Procurement and construction activities, cost data, schedules, etc. All these systems are interconnected and can be linked back to assets. Make them tags. How can all this data come together? How can Industry 4.0 be realized with so many silos of data and people? How can people collaborate under such circumstances? Can all this data be integrated into a single environment? How can this be done when in most cases it is not clean data and when there are inconsistencies all over the data? Such situations can not even facilitate data analysis. All this leads to analytical paralysis.
Digital Asset Delivery for Industry 4.0
Until now, there has not been a single framework that can bring together all tag - based, asset data and project activities information in near real time to serve Industry 4.0 initiatives.
Digital Asset Delivery gives the SIMPLIFY-INTEGRATE-COLLABORATE-ACHIEVE foundation for Industry 4.0 initiatives to bring the required asset and activity data in simplified forms, integrate it and serve users for collaboration over the lifecycle of any asset and in any project, for greenfield or brownfield, for small or megaproject. And this is done without  engineering  having to abandon their engineering tools.  Digital Asset Delivery targets collaboration tailored to Industry 4.0 requirements. This is about sharing all information from planning and scheduling of tag - based activities for engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning for electrical, mechanical, instrumentation, cables, piping, etc.  And for maintenance too. This is SIM - System Information Modeling. Each tag in the SIM has activities. And each activity complies to Deming’s  Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) methodology, so that everyone can see, from anywhere in the globe, all information of who did what, when and how, under a sustainable governance framework.
Digital Asset Delivery combines tag data from all disciplines and tag activities to facilitate Industry 4.0 initiatives. Digital Asset Delivery takes into account all of the systems involved for all disciplines, their connectivities, involved people and departments, their workflows, associated documents and more. This is the Industry 4.0 System Information Model. And this is what saves cost, schedule and quality.
Where and how to start? Learn about Digital Asset Delivery, Industry 4.0 SIM, PDCA and SICA (SIMPLIFY-INTEGRATE-COLLABORATE-ACHIEVE) methodologies as part of an in - house  workshop towards achievement of excellence in asset and project lifecycle management, and, last but not least, for Industry 4.0 initiatives.