The learning for Nextspace Partners comes in the article concluding comment: “Next up for Aker BP and Siemens is Ivar Aasen 2.0, which involves upgrading “to the latest and greatest of new technology,”as the platform has been operating for almost 3 years and technology moves fast.”

So the author’s perspective is that the technology cycle in this space is 3 years – for the new to replace the old. Given that, with this article now 3 years out of date, why read it? Because despite increased hype and genuine advances in technology, the same broad challenges and business objectives context remain.

One of the key aspects of this article is contained in this quote: “While the idea of a digital twin has been around for a while, only recently has it been put to work on a large scale on platforms and other big floating structures.”

The staging ground for the article is the NorthSea, three operators (Total, Aker BP, and Shell) with twins being provided by (Emerson/Aspen, Akselos, and Ivar Aasen) and key benefits being:

• fewer commissioning roadblocks
• improved structural simulations
• better-integrated systems
• helping achieve sparsely manned platforms

Other topics discussed are:

• personnel training
• safety systems
• delivery schedules
• budgets
• modeling libraries and system integrations
• process simulation identifying issues
• automated maintenance
• monitoring and extension of asset lifetime
• condition-based sensor data / real-time processing
• remote monitoring, automation and reduction of human resource
• scaled dynamic data (90,000 tags)

We’d recommend this read and will be on the lookout for updated information and outcomes with regard to these scaled interactive digital twins.