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Susan Smith
Susan Smith has worked as an editor and writer in the technology industry for over 16 years. As an editor she has been responsible for the launch of a number of technology trade publications, both in print and online. Currently, Susan is the Editor of GISCafe and AECCafe, as well as those sites’ … More » Co-Venturing Defines Bentley PartnersNovember 23rd, 2018 by Susan Smith
Dr. Horst Kayser, chief strategy officer, Siemens AG, presented a keynote in London at the Bentley Year in Infrastructure 2018 conference in October on the position of Siemens in the world of business. Siemens has gone from a PLM company to software company, and is now rated number two in its space, just behind SAP. It is the largest industrial manufacturing company in European industry, with a focus in the areas of Energy, Healthcare, and Infrastructure & Cities.
Their offering MindSphere, part of the company’s Omnivise digital solutions portfolio, is the cloud-based, open IoT operating system that connects products, plants, systems, and machines, enabling you to harness the wealth of data generated by the Internet of Things (IoT) with advanced analytics. This solution covers the entire power plant, from combustion and steam turbines as well as associated generation and pumps, motors, transformers, valves, switchgears, and other equipment that impacts the plants reliability and performance. At the conference, Siemens and Bentley Systems announced an integrated asset performance management (APM) solution for power plants, a joint technology and service solution, comprised of their complementary offerings. This solution is designed to hasten the digitalization of power plants and provide intelligent analytics with a range of new state of the art offerings and managed service solutions. Siemens and Bentley announced PlantSight digital twin cloud services, a solution to enable up-to-date, as operated digital twins, synchronizing the real plant and its engineering representations, for greater efficiency in process plant operations. Additionally, disparate data sources can be integrated to create holistic digital context for aligned digital components. Dr. Kayser said that Siemens has come a long way in the area of discrete manufacturing. “There is clearly a divide between plant data management and enterprise data management,” he said. “With Bentley and Siemens’ cooperation, we can remove the barrier between plant and enterprise data. We can combine data with Teamcenter for intelligent plant.” Bentley’s Digital Twin technology provides them with a production infrastructure collaboration platform. Siemen’s Teamcenter software is a modern, adaptable product lifecycle management (PLM) system that connects people and processes, across functional silos, with a digital thread for innovation. The breadth and depth of the Teamcenter portfolio means that you can solve more of the tough challenges required to develop highly successful products. From the easy, intuitive Teamcenter user interface, people across the organization can take part in the product development process more easily than ever before. The next step is to use Bentley’s asset performance management, experience and ability to visualize infrastructure in the Digital Twin. Siemen’s focus on the turbine can grow it to the entire plant so they can run more efficiently. Some of the key points about Siemens include:
Strategic Partners Speak Out In a Strategic Partners panel discussion moderated by journalist Antony Oliver, featuring Ray O’Connor, chief executive of TopCon, Trudy Norris-Grey, Worldwide Local and Regional Government Business Leader, Microsoft; Andreas Geiss, CTO and vice president, Strategy, Siemens AG Digital Factory, and Markus Schaffhauser, Atos Global Business and Platform Solutions CTO spoke about the importance of “co-venture” in industry – working together rather than doing everything separately. Now it becomes “digital co-venture” with partners. Following on that theme, Oliver asked about how we might identify and reform the “infrastructure laggards of industry.” O’Connor responded, “It’s difficult to change industry. How do we change developed products? At TopCon we’re bringing contractors and developers together, designing instrumentation that can give a continuous representation of reality. We’re seeing it accelerated in businesses such as John Deere, Caterpillar, who are getting involved in digital representations of reality.” Schaffhauser of Atos said that “Digital twins is leading technology and inevitable, and our partnership with Bentley is a perfect combination. Bentley’s software meshes well with our expertise in digital transformation, to now provide innovative services for industrial and infrastructure asset owners.” Norris-Grey of Microsoft said “Bentley is a big partner with 365. It’s all about the ability to collaborate, which is essential to harness the power of devices. There are one million devices deployed per hour. This is the industry that can make the most of it.” Geiss of Siemens said “Bentley PlantSight provides up-to-date digital twins merging with real plans and real devices, tapping different data pools. MindSphere allows for IoT to plan answers to questions you didn’t know before.” Geiss also added that asset and devices remain unconnected. O’Connor said that there are cultural changes to be addressed. “We need to bring more tech-savvy people. We suffer on the construction side, create a mandate. Really at the end of the day, what you want is an owner’s manual and a parts manual. Digital twins can drive the development of tools.” Oliver asked how it was going with getting people to migrate to the cloud. Norris-Grey of Microsoft said, “it’s about the trust we have in how our data is stored and used. All have to embrace and be able to trust and continue to communicate.” “It has more to do with mind shift,” said Geiss. “We have to rethink every element of the business and transform dark data into actionable data.” Travel, lodging and some meals for the Year in Infrastructure Conference were provided compliments of Bentley Systems. Tags: 3D, AEC, architects, architecture, Bentley Systems, BIM, building design, building information modeling, CAD, collaboration, construction, design, engineering, engineers, infrastructure, laser scanning, reality capture Categories: 2D, 3D, AEC, AEC training, AECCafe, architecture, Bentley Systems, BIM, building information modeling, Cloud, collaboration, construction, engineering, file sharing, infrastructure, integrated project delivery, Internet of Things, IoT, managed services, MEP, mobile, plant design, project management, rendering, simulation, site planning, sustainable design, Year in Infrastructure 2018, YII 2018 |
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