More companies are looking to leverage the combination of engineering data and real-time operations data for a more sustainable future. However, too many companies try to rely on just build it and the added value will come when trying to achieve this engineering and real-time data integration. To a large extent, a company s engineering data has historically been used as static reference to provide context for the real-time operational data. This has required manual alignment of the meta data (reference data about data) to keep everything in synch. Moving forward, if we were to start to combine the engineering and real-time data in a common set of platforms with automatic alignment, this would be more flexible and faster to react to changes, thus increasing speed to value. We recognise the importance of establishing context and a trusted foundation for exploiting real-time data by aligning the meta data. However, we ve previously not focused on how to dynamically achieve this alignment to establish a changing context along a digital thread. This is the next stage to driving value exploiting the ability to combine and align between engineering and real-time data along different dimensions within a changing environment.
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Speaker
Simon Coombs
Simon Coombs, Managing Director, Industry X Digital Manufacturing & Operations at Accenture
Over 35 years working with Asset- and Energy-intensive industries
Leading digital transformation programmes to drive performance and regulatory change
Executive Sponsor for Accenture s relationships with OSIsoft and Aveva
Over 35 years working with Asset- and Energy-intensive Industry clients. IT/OT digital expert.
Water, Gas, Electricity Utilities, Upstream Oil&Gas, Refineries, Chemicals, Metal industries. Now branching out into Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals and Infrastructure markets.
Utilities: Generation/Production, Distribution, Retail, Metering.
Low Carbon Energy - nuclear, biomass, EfW, wind, smart grid
Strategy, Change Management, Transformational programmes, Outsourced Services, Digital solutions architecture and delivery
Started as a control & power engineer for nuclear; then management consulting roles; business development of an automation and real-time IT system integrator; now within the leadership team at Accenture for Industry X.0.
Previously owner/executive management team successfully growing a VC-backed, UK system integration company focused on Energy and Utilities, with successful sale to a Strategic Buyer.