New Cloud-Service for digital twin

Siemens and Bent­ley Sys­tems announced today the intro­duc­tion of PlantSight, result­ing from devel­op­ment togeth­er based on their high­ly com­ple­men­tary soft­ware port­fo­lios. PlantSight is a dig­i­tal solu­tion to ben­e­fit cus­tomers through more effi­cient plant oper­a­tions. PlantSight enables as-oper­at­ed and up-to-date dig­i­tal twins which syn­chro­nize with both phys­i­cal real­i­ty and engi­neer­ing data, cre­at­ing a holis­tic dig­i­tal con­text for con­sis­tent­ly under­stood dig­i­tal com­po­nents across dis­parate data sources, for any oper­at­ing plant. Plant oper­a­tors ben­e­fit from high trust­wor­thi­ness and qual­i­ty of infor­ma­tion for con­tin­u­ous oper­a­tional readi­ness and more reliability.
Every real-world oper­at­ing plant is char­ac­ter­ized by cumu­la­tive evo­lu­tion, both to its brown­field phys­i­cal con­di­tion and to the var­ied types and for­mats of the­o­ret­i­cal­ly cor­re­spond­ing engi­neer­ing data. Accord­ing­ly, as-oper­at­ed dig­i­tal twins must reli­ably syn­chro­nize reflec­tions of both the phys­i­cal real­i­ty and its vir­tu­al engi­neer­ing rep­re­sen­ta­tions, com­pre­hen­sive­ly and accu­rate­ly. More­over, fur­ther fre­quent changes are inevitable. With PlantSight, every process plant own­er-oper­a­tor can real­ize the ben­e­fits of as-oper­at­ed dig­i­tal twins – with­out dis­rup­tion to their exist­ing phys­i­cal or vir­tu­al environment.
For process indus­tries, char­ac­ter­ized by ongo­ing cap­i­tal projects, the effec­tive­ness of dig­i­tal twins depends upon the integri­ty and acces­si­bil­i­ty of as-oper­at­ed infor­ma­tion pre­sent­ed and con­tin­u­ous­ly updat­ed in trust­ed 2D schemat­ic and 3D mod­el for­mats. PlantSight pro­vides all stake­hold­ers with cloud/web-enabled vis­i­bil­i­ty and access into exist­ing data and tool inter­faces, assur­ing that changes are time­ly and accu­rate­ly cap­tured and managed.
With PlantSight as-oper­at­ed dig­i­tal twin cloud ser­vices, oper­a­tional and project-relat­ed engi­neer­ing data is aligned seam­less­ly. All dis­ci­plines and stake­hold­ers have imme­di­ate access to con­sis­tent rep­re­sen­ta­tions. Espe­cial­ly for brown­field instal­la­tions, the time and effort to fed­er­ate and com­plete asset infor­ma­tion will be sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduced, with plant doc­u­men­ta­tion kept up-to-date, and its qual­i­ty accord­ing­ly improved.

“I believe that Siemens’ and Bentley’s new­ly-devel­oped PlantSight ser­vices will estab­lish a foun­da­tion for next-gen­er­a­tion asset infor­ma­tion and per­for­mance man­age­ment. For as-oper­at­ed dig­i­tal twins, this aug­ments the actu­al plant by inte­grat­ing oper­a­tional data with oper­a­tional intel­li­gence dash­boards, immer­sive oper­a­tor train­ing sim­u­la­tion, and links with appli­ca­tions such as process sim­u­la­tion, asset strat­e­gy, and reli­a­bil­i­ty. The ben­e­fits of the envi­ron­ment will increase with the num­ber of microser­vices provided.”
Valen­ti­jn de Leeuw, Vice Pres­i­dent ARC Advi­so­ry Group