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Only with full visibility companies can identify the need to purchase carbon credits and also carbon negative options .

Modifying plants

What is more , to be able to address your carbon footprint challenges , you will need to speed projects from concept to full capacity production . For the engineering and building stages , companies that adopt a data-centric approach with a rigorous lifecycle simulation see the best results . A unified approach allows your engineers to quickly evaluate hundreds of scenarios and optimise the project design according to your goals .

The latest technology also allows you to minimise project risks and ensure your plant is delivered on budget and schedule with an effective handover to operations . This is a critical aspect for maximising the return of your investments in digital technology .

If you have a reliable access to your plant data and effective modeling capabilities , you should also be able to identify if an upgrade is required to manage your GHG emissions and energy usage . So the unified approach can be used for greenfield and brownfield projects .

Currently , companies struggle to access all the relevant data that exists , aggregate it to see the bigger picture , and make it meaningful to users outside operations . And it can be expensive and time-consuming to share data with colleagues and trusted partners .

The first step is certainly having visibility of the carbon footprint . Data sharing across your ecosystem can be beneficial to your company so as to suppliers , customers and partners . Only with full visibility companies can identify the need to purchase carbon credits and also carbon negative options .

This can be addressed with a fully managed cloudnative solution that enables knowledgeable experts who can enrich data streams with metadata and context to help other users understand and make sense of the data . From this it ´ s possible to create a master planning to develop a roadmap for net-zero . Using data to make better decisions is more and more a core function of business and society . Data is increasingly helping us solve complex problems such as managing and optimising resources to address scope 3 emissions .

Beyond managing data of your value chain , CAPEX projects will be required to build the critical infrastructure to support carbon capture and underground storage , CCUS , green hydrogen production and utilisation and the circular economy . In this case , the value of a digital approach is even higher as more agility and collaboration among multiple stakeholders are required .

Empowering the connected workforce

By combining your operations and engineering data , you ’ ll be able evaluate options to upgrade your assets to even further reduce your GHG emissions , or be able to incorporate flexibility in the energy mix so clean energy usage can be maximised .

You want to make sure you can extend the benefits of your digital investment in the engineering phase by ensuring the digital twin is properly handover to operations . When the data delivered at the end of the project can be connected to real time operational data , it can be used to guide further improvements on the plant ´ s operations and maintenance .

Finally , we need to remember that none of this is possible without duly empowering the workforce . By digitally enabling our teams , they will learn faster , work smarter and hence have greater insights , leading to better productivity and an improved worklife balance .

Digital technology is the number one enabler for engineers in the office , operators in the control room , field workers on the plant floor , anytimeanywhere remote workers and , of course , the leadership team which requires deep 360 degrees visibility into the enterprise .

Extending the digital twin benefits across the value chain

The biggest challenge that industrial companies will face is probably to address scope 3 emissions . Managing upstream and downstream emissions is not an easy task .

Cloud-enabled and AI-driven applications are critical to enabling the workforce and attracting and retaining talent to the industrial environment . The digital twins of the future will empower low-carbon remote working , safe and productive working styles , real time carbon insights , and augmented decision making for optimised carbon footprints . p

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