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Hi Tom,
I am not sure there is a specific answer, most organisations I speak too are really strong in certain areas and less mature in others.
Water companies for example have extremely mature operational systems, with scaled telemetry and detailed twins of sites with real time / historical information, alarms, event management, analysis etc etc. I guess what limits the value is that these systems are often segregated, intentionally for resilience and security, however many water companies are starting to ‘join the digital dots’ to enable whole catchment optimisation rather than individual sites, which is amazing and hopefully represented in the presentation.
What is really encouraging is the recognition of the value to enterprise, Network Rail for example have a very ambitious plan to join the dots across their enterprise, with some excellent capability already being deployed. They see the value in using the information from across their business to aid strategic decision making, where as much of the insight today in many organisations is at the tactical level.
HS2 are another great example of a forward thinking enterprise who are developing some incredible digital twin capability and expanding their thinking all the time, such progression is very encouraging.
The sheer amount of progress with BIM as the foundation is really very impressive, I think as an industry we can be very self critical and sometimes miss the amazing work underway.
None of this could be done without collaboration and all clients are mature enough to ask for support where needed, this behaviour then feeds down into the supply chain. In alliances and JV’s it is best person for the role and this works, makes sure the right expertise is available to drive the right outcomes.
Hope that helps !
Kevin
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