Overview
Learning from other owner operators, the customer wanted to use intelligent design tools to achieve a digital twin of the facility while overcoming the pitfalls of traditional project execution information handover strategy and processes.
Challenges
Given the large scale of the capital project and the different EPCs located around the globe, the owner faced a few challenges, including:
- Ensuring standardization and compliance to standards and requirements across multiple EPC’s.
- Maintaining the ability to create a single source of truth for operations and maintenance to use through the lifecycle of the asset.
- Ensuring data consistency and quality assurance.
- Enabling design reuse for future projects.
- Cost effectively populating operations and maintenance (O&M) systems (Maximo, SAP, etc.) in time for commissioning and startup.
- Moving away from traditional document handover at project end.
Solutions
The customer partnered with ReVisionz to establish their digital project execution strategy and implementation of intelligent design tools.
The intelligent design tool execution strategy consisted of centrally hosting and managing the tool environments for all EPCs, providing common technology solutions while ensuring standardization and compliance with customer standards and requirements.
The tools were also integrated with an asset information management and BI dashboard reporting solution to ensure consistency and quality assurance across design tools and other business systems, including master tag and document registry, document management systems, and more.
Outcomes
Centralized Design Tools
EPCs used the customer’s centrally hosted intelligent design tools, creating a single source of truth and streamlining the information handover process and commissioning system population.
Cost and Flexibility Gains
Ownership of engineering tool databases reduced information handover and master data population costs by 50% and allowed the customer to control their engineering data independently of EPCs.
Improved Project Monitoring and Cost Savings
Enhanced visibility and access to engineering data enabled the company to monitor project progress effectively and defend against EPC change orders, saving millions.
Optimized Material Management
Implementation of a Corporate Material Catalog and 3D model integration reduced restocking costs, minimized project delays, and secured bulk purchasing discounts.