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EIC Survive & Thrive 2024
EIC Survive & Thrive 2024
69 Success Stories July 2024
Story type #transformation (main category) #digital, #technology
Kongsberg Digital
Benefits
Transformation through a digital-first approach at LNG Canada Yorinde Lokin
James Maguire
Growth Manager, Digital Energy, Kongsberg Digital
Digital and Business Transformation Manager, LNG Canada
How is Kongsberg Digital thriving? Kongsberg Digital, a leading provider of industrial software, was established in 2016 and is part of the wider Kongsberg Gruppen, a technology company with over 200 years of history. With this strong backing, it is able to leverage its parent company’s expertise to ensure it develops and integrates the latest digital technologies into process industries to digitally transform ways of working and enhanced workforce productivity. Kongsberg Digital’s Industrial Work Surface (IWS) platform, a dynamic digital twin, brings together data transformation, simulation, analytics, workflows, performance management, and AI to enable clients to work digitally to drive faster higher quality business decisions. The platform leverages digital in a synergistic way to better frame, assess, evaluate, and convert data patterns to actions and results. Kongsberg Digital’s Industrial Work Surface balances a digital workspace with data management and scalable transformation to deliver business value. The challenge - Since 2019, Kongsberg Digital has been working with LNG Canada, a major liquefied natural gas (LNG) project under construction in Kitimat, British Columbia. Once complete, LNG Canada will be the country’s first large-scale LNG export facility and an important provider of natural gas to the global market. The facility, designed to be the world’s lowest carbon-producing LNG plant of its size, is located in a pristine but very remote area where the nearest airport is over 40 miles away, and the closest energy infrastructure hub is in over 800 miles. This drives an extreme focus on efficient movement of people and materials and efficient execution of work. The solution - In 2019, LNG Canada and Kongsberg Digital sat down to reimagine how work could be done differently, following an innovative and digital-first approach. The need for efficiency, remote visibility and ability to collaborate from multiple dispersed locations is what led LNG Canada to investigate digital solutions and rethink and redesign processes following a digital-first approach. LNG Canada implemented Kongsberg Digital’s Industrial Work Surface platform as a single point of entry for all asset staff regardless of their work location. Since its introduction, IWS has become a crucial
asset for LNG Canada. As an operational digital twin throughout the construction of the asset, the IWS digital twin makes information readily available to all personnel, from frontline workers to senior leaders and maintenance planners. It connects the field with leadership, equipping frontline workers with the necessary tools to improve their effectiveness, engagement and job satisfaction. Critically, IWS offers the remote capabilities that enable LNG Canada’s disparate staff to follow what is going on at the asset in real-time from hundreds of miles away. High-quality contextualised notifications from the digital twin help to diminish the time lapse for decision-making and addressing problems by ensuring that people in different locations can provide technical support in real time. Not only is the IWS digital twin breaking down siloes and increasing collaboration in this manner, but it has also been used to deliver training and readiness exercises. By enabling the workforce to familiarise themselves with LNG Canada’s way of working, it ensures that operational activities are efficient and cohesive. Furthermore, IWS provides a holistic view of the cumulative risks at the site, while the digital twin offers AI-powered search capabilities, and its copilot feature allows for more effective and faster decision-making loops. Using Kongsberg Digital’s IWS as an operational digital twin during the construction has already proven to be incredibly successful, as direct feedback from LNG Canada shows. Roland Robinson, Senior Digital Specialist at LNG Canada, commented: “We have seen people with more than 25 years of experience in the field telling us, ‘This is the first time that something has been delivered to us that actually makes our job easier’.” Equally, Shawn Baxter, Asset Excellence Manager at LNG Canada, stated: “Our challenge has always been how to effectively connect people to work and to other LNGCers across multiple working locations. We’ve addressed the challenge with Kongsberg Digital’s AI-embedded digital twin. By connecting contextualised data from dayto-day frontline operations up to leadership and on to joint venture participants, data and information can be used throughout the or-
▸ Capabilties of Krongsberg Digital’s solution proved and well-received by client. ▸ LNG Canada’s safe and sustainable operations secured.
Key findings For industry ▸ Make digital investment without forgetting about the human element. ▸ Be curious about what technology can do for your business and build the right skills internally.
Kongsberg Digital at a glance: Key products and services: digitalisation and software solutions. Main industries served: ▸ Oil and gas – 85% ▸ Offshore renewable energy – 5% ▸ Onshore renewable energy – 5% ▸ Carbon capture – 5% Headquarters: Lysaker, Norway Year established: 2016 Number of employees: 1,300 Revenue: £111m Revenue from exports: N/A
ganisation to provide real-time insights and improve collaboration.” Without question, this technology has laid a robust foundation for several decades of safe and sustainable operations at the LNG Canda, ensuring its long-term efficiency and resilience.