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the report authors believe the UK can become a world leader in the fourth industrial revolution, improve its current lacklustre productivity levels, generate high value jobs, and, ultimately, support economic prosperity. With a vision for industrial digital
technology adoption now set out, process industries looking to take access some key digital technology solutions that can pave the way to enhanced performance and future competitiveness.
THE DIGITAL ENTERPRISE AND THE DIGITAL TWIN All process companies are under a balancing act between the need for more quickly to market while satisfying individual customer requirements, and at the same time comply with legislative constraints and ensure process safety and high product quality. Meanwhile, keep rising to control costs. To satisfy commercial and
operational ambitions to provide individual solutions for customers, a reduction in plant maintenance responsibilities or improve plant availability, the answer lies in the digital enterprise. The digital enterprise involves the
integration of hardware, software and services programmes to record and intelligently leverage the vast quantities of data that processes can create. Companies can also take a further digitalisation step towards linking the virtual and real production worlds through the simulation of machines and plants courtesy of digital twins. The to individual customer requirements with small batch sizes, calls for the use of simulation solutions along the entire value chain. This is where the digital twin comes
into its own, precisely duplicating and simulating the properties and performance features of a physical product, a product line, a process or a complete plant in the virtual world
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before a single screw needs to be picked up in the real world. A central data platform and high
performance network components are the basis of a digital twin that can be used to map and optimise an entire plant lifecycle. The common data platform enables all of the disciplines involved in a project to generate a common data model. This permits most of the processes usually carried out in sequence Likewise, for plant availability
objectives, the digital twin can drive availability and reliability of a process plant, the mechanical assets must be monitored since they are often the prime cause of unplanned downtime. Simple communication between the control system and the maintenance tool, plus access to all plant data via the digital twin, accelerates predictive maintenance and repair measures. The result: an optimised plant.
A STRATEGIC PLATFORM To further support businesses towards a digitalised and connected future, MindSphere provides a cloud-based, open operating system. Created by Siemens, it is a strategic technology platform that allows industrial process customers to connect their machines and physical infrastructure to the digital world, and harness data volumes from intelligent devices to drive operational manufacturing options and upscale
The MindSphere platform provides
powerful real time data analytics and connectivity capabilities, tools for developers, applications and services, enabling users to evaluate and use data streams, enhance performance and optimise asset bases.
Not only does MindSphere connect
real things to the digital world, it also enables powerful industry applications and digital services to drive business success, including support for an open platform partner ecosystem that can develop and deliver new applications.
In the past 10 years, consumers have
productivity leaps in the manner in which they purchase and travel thanks to their own digital journey. It is now industry’s time to reap the rewards of the innovative advancements in cloud connectivity, data storage and computing technology that sit at the heart of the powerful digitalisation
time for process industries. It is the foundation that will transform how process companies can plan asset and plant management more intelligently, link together disparate elements of gain a technology edge over the competition.
Mike Houghton is managing director – Process Industries and Drives, Siemens UK & Ireland.
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