PLM for Energy, Process, and Utilities
Navigate evolving consumer trends, optimize manufacturing processes, and engage customers like never before.
Process and utilities companies are under significant pressure from consumer demand and regulatory bodies. The shift towards renewable energy sources like solar and wind has introduced variability and intermittency, requiring sophisticated management strategies to maintain grid stability. It’s time to embrace digitalization as a catalyst for innovation and growth.
Let’s find out how we can help you achieve excellence in this dynamic, highly regulated industry.
Tell us about your organization’s challenges
Take a moment to read through the information below, and put a tick against the obstacles you’re ready to overcome. Once we know a bit more about your business, we’d be happy to put a custom demonstration together for you.
Product development
3DEXPERIENCE supports the creation of virtual twins, allowing companies to simulate and optimize product designs before physical production. This reduces time-to-market and enhances design accuracy.
Systems integration
Legacy systems, rapid technological changes, and compatibility issues complicate integration efforts. ERP system integration can pose various challenges, restricting access to essential data. Applying IoT and AI technologies, effective system integrations can enable you to optimize energy consumption while managing complex systems. A well-planned approach with expert guidance is essential to overcome these challenges and ensure seamless operations.
Regulatory compliance
Navigating the complex regulatory landscape requires significant resources to ensure compliance with safety, environmental, and consumer protection standards. This requires continuous monitoring of regulatory changes and adapting product designs accordingly, which can be resource-intensive.
Virtual prototyping
Advanced simulation technologies are used to model physical behaviors under various conditions. This reduces the need for physical prototypes but demands high computational power and expertise in simulation software.
SIMULIA offers advanced simulation capabilities that allow for virtual testing of products under various conditions. This reduces the need for physical prototypes and accelerates the testing process, leading to cost savings and improved product reliability.
Engineering services
Our comprehensive design engineering services are crafted to transform your ideas into reality with precision and innovation.
Accelerated life testing
Products are subjected to extreme conditions to predict their lifespan and identify potential failures early. This process helps in improving product durability but can be costly and time-consuming.
SIMULIIA lets you conduct virtual testing for reformulation with new ingredients, allowing companies to simulate potential recipes and determine optimal solutions quickly.
Environmental stress screening
Products are tested under various environmental conditions such as temperature, humidity, and vibration to ensure reliability. This helps in identifying weaknesses that could lead to product failure in real-world scenarios.
SIMULIA can simulate environmental stressors such as temperature, humidity, and vibration to ensure product reliability. This helps in identifying weaknesses that could lead to failures in real-world scenarios.
Failure mode analysis
Systematic analysis of potential failure modes helps in improving product design by addressing vulnerabilities. This process is critical for enhancing reliability but requires detailed knowledge of product design and operation.
SIMULIA facilitates failure mode analysis by enabling detailed simulations that identify potential failure modes in product designs. This allows companies to address vulnerabilities early in the design process, enhancing product reliability.
Engineering simulation services
Our simulations evaluate how structures respond to various loading conditions, revealing regions of potential failure, resonance issues or stability concerns before physical prototyping.
Manufacturing
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform supports BIM Level III with multidisciplinary modeling and attribute management. It offers a collaborative model based on data management in a PLM context, enhancing coordination across teams.
Raw material sourcing
A lack of predictability in raw material availability and prices can disrupt production schedules. Companies must develop strategies for sourcing alternative materials or securing long-term contracts to mitigate these risks.
3DEXPERIENCE supports supply chain management through integrated planning and collaboration tools that help manage sourcing strategies and mitigate risks.
Logistics optimization
Efficient logistics management is crucial for minimizing delays and reducing costs. Companies use advanced analytics and real-time tracking to optimize supply chain operations.
DELMIA real-time visibility into production data and synchronizing manufacturing operations with enterprise systems. It enhances logistics management by integrating shop floor activities with broader enterprise processes.
Robotics integration
Implementing robotics can significantly enhance production efficiency and precision. However, it requires substantial investment in technology and training for employees to manage and maintain robotic systems.
DELMIA includes capabilities for integrating robotics into manufacturing processes, enhancing efficiency and precision.
Sensor-based quality control
Sensors are used to monitor production processes in real-time, ensuring consistent quality standards. This technology helps in early detection of defects but involves significant setup costs.
DELMIA simplifies the management of equipment layers by automating real-time data collection with distributed machine control connectivity. It enables sensor-based quality control by providing visibility into machine operations across multiple locations.
Availability of training
Continuous training programs are essential to keep the workforce skilled and productive. This requires investment in curriculum development and training infrastructure.
PLM services
TECHNIA offers on-demand, continual, and custom training programs. Discover a wide range of courses and training delivery methods designed to suit each individual and any organizational requirement.
Knowledge transfer
Effective knowledge transfer from experienced workers to new employees is crucial for maintaining operational continuity. Companies often use mentorship programs or digital tools to facilitate this process.
Light My Way provides a guided and interactive learning environment that empowers users to quickly familiarize themselves with the platform’s features and functionalities.
Operational efficiency
Predictive maintenance
By analyzing data from equipment sensors, companies can predict when maintenance is needed, reducing downtime and extending asset life. This approach requires investment in IoT technologies and data analytics capabilities.
3DEXPERIENCE supports predictive maintenance through IoT technologies that analyze sensor data to predict equipment maintenance needs.
Condition-based monitoring
Real-time monitoring of equipment conditions allows for maintenance based on actual wear rather than scheduled intervals, optimizing maintenance resources.
3DEXPERIENCE supports real-time data collection and analysis capabilities.
Process efficiency improvements
Companies seeking to optimize processes in order to reduce energy consumption may find they have to redesign systems or implement new technologies.
DELMIA improves process efficiency by integrating manufacturing operations with enterprise systems, allowing for streamlined processes and reduced energy consumption.
Renewable energy integration
Integrating renewable energy sources like solar or wind into operations helps reduce carbon footprint but involves challenges such as storage solutions and grid compatibility.
LCA (lifecycle assessment) technologies support renewable energy projects through integrated analytics, design, and simulation tools.
Emissions reduction
Energy, process, and utilities companies are required to implement technologies or processes that reduce emissions to meet regulatory requirements, which requires detailed expertise and specific toolsets.
SIMULIA provides tools that optimize processes for lower emissions and compliance with environmental standards.
Engineering simulation services
Achieve superior performance with engineering simulation services. Predict and analyze product designs under various stresses and dynamic effects.
Waste management
Developing effective waste management strategies is essential for minimizing environmental impact while complying with regulations, often requiring innovative solutions or partnerships.
3DEXPERIENCE supports waste management through integrated planning tools that facilitate efficient resource use and waste reduction.
Digital transformation
Sensor networks
Deploying extensive sensor networks enables real-time data collection across operations, enhancing decision-making capabilities but requiring robust data management systems.
3DEXPERIENCE supports sensor networks by enabling real-time data collection across operations, enhancing decision-making capabilities through robust data management systems.
Data analytics
Advanced analytics provide insights into operational efficiency and potential improvements but require skilled data scientists and investment in analytics platforms.
Remote operations
Enabling remote operations increases flexibility, but requires reliable communication infrastructure and cybersecurity measures to protect remote access points.
3DEXPERIENCE helps to simplify remote operations by providing reliable communication infrastructure and cybersecurity measures to protect remote access points.
Augmented reality
AR technologies enhance training by providing immersive learning experiences and assist in complex maintenance tasks by overlaying digital information onto the physical environment.
3DEXPERIENCE virtual twin technologies enhance training and maintenance processes through immersive learning experiences.
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This page lists some of the most common challenges in the Energy, process and utility industry. If all of this sounds a lot like your business, don’t worry, you’re not alone!
How do we know? We’ve worked with hundreds of businesses across Energy, process and utility industries, and we’ve solved all of these challenges before. We’d love to work together with you to implement a solution that set you up for success.
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