Digital Control Tower – Instantaneous Visibility, Granularity and Decision Support for an LNG Mega Project

Abstract

Objectives/Scope Cloud based end to end digital project management platform with digital control tower, as fundamental technologies of the fourth industrial revolution, have enormous potential to improve real time visibility, productivity, collaboration, data sharing, efficiency, predictability, decision power and sustainability in the construction industry. Throughout the lifecycle of capital / mega projects, the engineering, construction, operations, and maintenance stakeholders face numerous issues, including the lack of trust and visibility, inefficiencies, and the fragmentation of the information value chain into fragile data silos. Digital control tower aimed to narrow down the time, budget and quality & safety challenges of a capital project by having overall / end to end control of project from initiation phase to handover and operations phase of the project. Methods, Procedures, Process Digital control tower provides systematic, 360-degree view of project details along with real-time analytics spanning from design engineering, pre-construction planning, onsite execution, action tracker, construction services, equipment's, quality, budget and safety (leading and lagging indicators). Stakeholders involved throughout the project lifecycle (i.e.: owner, engineering team, pre-construction and planning team, construction management and site team), enables instantaneous connectivity from the top floor to the shop floor for seamless communication by reducing waste time. Digital control tower also enables bird's eye view for real time project performance monitoring and progress, it also enables week wise look ahead task for better monitoring and control, also narrows down the issues or concerns to an activity, area or person. The control tower can create the customizable necessary discipline/function dashboards available to all relevant roles and stakeholders without limitation. Results, Observations, Conclusions Digital Control Tower leverages Artificial intelligence, Machine learning and Blockchain technologies to seamlessly capture, maintain and process fragmented data set into intelligent predictive analytics which helps the project stakeholders to take right decision on right time, so as to avoid any kind of delays in project. Novel/Additive Information Digital Control Tower is not a standard dashboard, it's an integrated digital ecosystem where stakeholders can drive projects with real time data for decision making.