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PLANT ENGINEERING

Digital twin:

adding more value

In plant engineering, millions of data
are generated, changed, updated

and documented through the years.
This costs a lot of money, time and

know-how. And then what? The plant
is delivered and in operation, but the

documentation lies dormant in various
files or even cardboard folders. With

every repair or plant optimization that
is not added, the plant loses more of

its value. Yet up-to-date plant data
opens up a wealth of opportunities for

value creation From the FEED phase and P&IDs to detail engineering and automation, the digital twin
grows together in EB’s central data model

The Digital Twin not only maps the entire plant
Reinhard Knapp, Head of Global Strategies
Aucotec reality with all logics and associations
“across all disciplines, but can also grow
consistently in the lifecycle of the plant with all its

he most important prerequisite for physical changes
being able to use these opportuni-
ties is the principle of “data instead
of documents”. This requires a single terfaces. A digital twin that is only a static snapshot
source of truth (SSoT), in which all would do as little justice to the value of the data as
T data from basic, process and detail keeping it in discipline-oriented containers.
engineering to the control system configuration are
united in a versatile model – this is the only way that
documentation can become a comprehensive digi-
tal twin. It not only maps the entire plant reality with Half the reality - twice
all logics and associations across all disciplines, the work
but can also grow consistently in the lifecycle of
the plant with all its physical changes. Every entry, Still widespread are chains of special tools that can
which includes every change, is immediately visible give a discipline-specific representation e.g. only
to all those involved, without manual transfer or in- P&IDs with containers, pipes and flanges or only

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