Team Hexagon Asset Lifecycle Intelligence

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Hexagon Live, asset life cycle intelligence, asset performance management, industrial innovations, digital asset solutions, smart 3D design, SDx2, P&IDs, data synchronization, enterprise asset management, compliance, AI assistant, asset twin library, machine learning, maintenance records.

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Scott, welcome to the Industrial Talk podcast with Scott MacKenzie. Scott is a passionate industry professional dedicated to transferring cutting edge industry focused innovations and trends while highlighting the men and women who keep the world moving. So put on your hard hat, grab your work boots and let's go well, hello

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right? Great, great having a good show. Absolutely. Yeah, tonight is the last day, though we're all it's been a long

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week, but it happened a little let down a little bit.

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Yeah, it's been a great week. Yeah, it's been a great week,

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and it's so fun, because the reality is, is that that the innovation is here, and what, what hexagon, what I see hexagon do, is that they lead. They're the tip of the sword leading that innovation really focused on the success of of clients. This is not just puffy stuff, and sounds great and looks good. On a you know, piece of paper. No, this is real stuff. We've been kicking the tone again in action, right? Take us through all right, good. Well,

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we're here in the interactive art gallery, and we've got an art piece here. And with this is, this is really to represent visibility, and it's allowing folks to understand the visit visibility value driver, and it's artwork is really a means for us to be able to allow our customers here to understand what we do with respect to visibility, and it means something different to everyone, right? You just get this piece of art and you see something someone else lets this piece of art see something totally different, and that represents all of our solutions, right? What do you need? How can we best serve and that allows them to lead them to the pod where we can demonstrate visibility and all of our solutions. Okay, we're going to start here in productivity, though, in that particular pod, and give you a demonstration or an explanation of our smart 3d 3d design solution and how we integrate with our STX two products as well, to allow you to manage the data, contextualize it, share it, and keep it always, ever, ever, Evergreen.

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Evergreen. I like that. Let's go. Okay,

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look at this. All

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right. Just gave a little bit of an intro to smart 3d, and STX two, and let's grab

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this. Is he going to be running with it? He is not you. Yep, you run with it. Just hold it. It'd be fine. He's gonna now we're now go ahead, talk to us. Yes,

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yeah. So here we are looking at the integration with smart 3d and SDx two, which is basically a part of the whole integration, 2.2 from design tool perspective. Uh huh. So in here, what happens is that you've got your schematics, which is the P and IDs, P and IDS got it, yep. And your s 3d model, right has data synchronization, which is continuous data synchronization. What we talk about right is that the data comes in from P and ID and S 3d into SDH two. So that's the first part, where we get the data, we contextualize it, and then the correlation of the data.

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Let me ask you real quick, when I say p and IDs, I always see this big stack of paper. Are you taking that big stack of paper and digitizing it and making it or are we just sort of going the

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digitizing part is basically the smart P and IDs.

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Want to make sure it's got to get that way? Yes, and you can use legacy or existing P and IDs that are always there on the rack that are pretty static. Quite frankly, nobody goes back and just sort of updates the P and ID. They don't.

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Yeah, you're going to put them into the smart P and Id first, there you go. Absolutely. That's your digital data, right? Which has a database in the back end, and that information can get continuously synchronized to SDx two, which is the digital platform, the single pane of class, yep, you know. So you can see your PN IDs. You can see your Lyd model. And once you have that information and in in SDx tool, then you can create some other tasks, like internal task, internal actions. Like, for example, there this piece of heat exchanger which is old, it has to be replaced, yeah, manufacturer is no longer supplying that equipment. So now you create that internal action saying that replace this equipment because it's aged, and I need a new manufacturer for this, right? So this information goes then this information is an internal action which is taken up by the designers. And within s 3d when they get into S 3d they will replace that equipment with the new equipment as a digital model, right? And then your 3d model and your P and ID is correlated with each other. So that correlation breaks, because now you are replacing the equipment, so you got to recorrelate that, yep, and then the data synchronization, yep, it's going to happen in the back end, where it's going to push that information back to SDx two. So that's where the 5c come into the picture. And the correlation part is one of the five C's, which is the design solution.

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Why is this important? What? What's the business rationale? I can I can see it. I want you to explain a little bit about Yes.

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So the business rationale behind that is that most of the times the design tools are used from an engineering perspective. But now with the with SDx two and SD continuous data synchronization information coming in, it can be also used in maintenance and operations aspect for sustaining Beautiful.

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Now you've got other organizations, other departments, other yes individuals able to access sort of that record of of the right record,

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yes, and also whatever tasks that come from maintenance and operations aspect, which you can code, which you can have as an inform app based on the tag for the equipments within SDx two. Yeah. So now you've got your P and IDs, you got your 3d model. You've got different reports, like PDF documents, Excel sheets coming in, the maintenance records come in, the operational records come in, and all of them are at one central location, which is the SDx two, which is the single pane of cleanse. So now you get to see everything on. One tablet. Now, you're not looking for information which is siloed, but it's all at one central location.

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But I'm, I'm an existing business. Yes, I want to get to there, and I want that, right? So you're going to take me through that journey and get me to the point where I have that, that common record that everybody knows that's accurate, right and right, right?

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Yes. So for that purpose, there are two parts here, right? The first part is the infrastructure, which means that you've got your design solutions. Now let's assume that design solutions are on prem, with most of the customers that they're also going to smart cloud, but again, assuming that they are on prem, so that's where the connection has to be. Initially, you have to build the connection to SDx too, so that the synchronization happens, and it's all done through web APIs. So it's a secure way of sending the information, because, you know, with it's got a client security client ID, so it kind of goes in a secure way, right? Yeah, and then once it gets in there, then you can leverage that data, utilize the data from multiple perspectives. So and SDx two is 100% SaaS only. It's a multi tenant solution, and it the data is stored in Kubernetes cluster as nodes, and it's containerized. So it's very easy to scale up and scale down. Based on the architecture, the way it is built. How do people

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get ahold of you? That's a great explanation. What would if somebody says, I want to talk to you? How do they get ahold of you? Are you on LinkedIn?

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Yes, so I'm on LinkedIn. My name is Rahul Shinde. I'm the Senior Solutions Consultant at hexagon for 3d modeling fabrication cloud solutions based in Houston, Texas, yeah, and my email id is Rahul touch in there@hexagon.com Well,

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thank you very much. That's an excellent explanation. So I'm gonna hand it back over to Kyle. Kyle, thank you.

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Thanks all appreciate that. We're gonna take a walk over to the other side, and we're going to we're gonna look at our digital asset

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solutions. Everybody has the same everybody has the same shoes. You didn't tell me that.

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I thought that's why you brought them. No, let's take a walk. Oh, yeah, let's go. We'll go talk about some of our digital asset solutions. Oh, I get that. They're going to support our operations, maintenance and cybersecurity, like

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this place this, this is so spacious, and I like the fake wood because it looks like wood, but it feels great. It feels wonderful. That's

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important on day three,

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absolutely okay, what do we

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got? Let's see what we got here. Let's see where, who's not with a customer. Here's a great

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one. Oh, everybody's favorite talk, hexagonia. Any

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chance you could give us a 62nd Run? Second run through of what hexagon EAM is and does and the value to our customers absolutely.

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And that's enterprise asset management, right? Did I say that? I get that right. That's correct. But why is it under compliance?

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Well, we are a highly configurable system, so compliance can be many things nobody wants to talk about, absolutely. But compliance could span around, you know, government compliance. It could be industry compliance, yep, it could be, you know, standards like ISO standards. We could also look at compliance from the security standpoint, right, compliance with different clouds. Oh, right. So we're able to configure the system. Some of our implementation accelerators include the ability to be compliant with our ISO standards maintenance practices for pharmaceutical industry. So there's many ways of being able to approach compliance, and in this case, we're actually looking at being able to stay compliant with our permits. So we're looking at a permit to work dashboard, we can see things like, what are are the types of permits that we have, basically being able to manage all the work, the activities that's going on within this facility. But EAM really all about asset management. Oh, yeah, work that goes around managing those assets. How can we help to, you know, support preventive maintenance schedules, be able to draw down risk from those assets, the risk of failure, those costs that are associated to them. So that's really what EAM is about. An asset could be anything. It could be, you know, anything that we can touch.

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Hey, we were talking to a company over here, and they're taking people have asked as assets, and just treating in a nice way, not not enough, but in a night that they are assets, and they have, you know, requirements, and they're managing it from from that person. So, yeah, you're right. Everything,

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From a configuration perspective, I'm old school. I've deployed a number of systems. It's always like, off the shelf. You take this system off the shelf, don't, you know, adjust it or make it, just take it off the shelf. Configurable, very flexible in that

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sense. That's what really separates us from editors. Now we, we could get into the form and function of EA there, but really what we what our basis is, is being able to have a system that can configure based off of what your processes are. Everybody's different. Everybody has different work processes. Yeah, everybody's unique. So being able to have a system that can adapt to what your workflows are, what those specific assets are you trying to manage could be and make it easy for somebody to set it up without having to code. So it's a low code, no code, approach to making it fit for what your unique business needs are. So

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when you see it going you're like, yeah, what's, what's going to be the next cool thing? Because you guys are just, I don't know, I feel like every time I have a conversation about your platforms, I feel like I'm drinking from a fire hose, because you guys are right in it, and you're always just, hey, how about and you just never stop that energy of innovation. But for me as a as just this, you know, let's say a manufacturer, it's like drinking from the fire hose. Sure What's, what's the next sort of salvo that you can see.

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What we're seeing now is you see this across the world, global AI. I see Alex, our AI assistant, being the wave of the future. Currently, Alex is just looking at EAM documentation, it's going to help you navigate the system and create maybe some configuration around the system, but we're eventually, within the next year or so, be enable it to actually look at your data. So now we don't have to utilize things like dashboards and KPIs. Now you can use your own personal assistant to understand, what are my top problem assets? What is this truly going to be costing me? What is the cost going to be in the future? So utilizing an assist assistant like that is, that's something that we see is, is, is truly going to be the future that

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is so cool. Absolutely, absolutely. Yeah, you got the tennis shoes too. Everybody's got their tennis shoes. I'm going to be Wow, that's negative. Well, that's fantastic. How do people get a hold of you, Ryan,

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absolutely you can contact me. It's ryan.mccourum@hexagon.com

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Are you on LinkedIn? I sure am. Okay, and you're active? Yeah. I mean, at least when somebody pings you, you're going to say, oh, absolutely I am happy. Oh, fantastic. Thank you very much. Pleasure. Back to Kyle. Here you go. What?

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Okay, so you learned about hexagon, EAM. Now I want to talk about j5 operations management software. Yeah, hexagon, EAM and hexagon, APM, asset performance management, how we integrate all that? It's just a lot of letters. It is it is gonna step right on.

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All right. All right. You

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are up. I've given a little intro of the three solutions. All right, we just learned about hexagon, EAM hexagon, Alex integration, our AI agent. And we want to hear about the other products that we integrate with EAM and how we can go to the next level. Yeah,

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absolutely. Thank you so much. Kyle.

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Well, thanks. It's pleasure meeting you. Good to meet you too.

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So talk to us, yeah. So my name is Matt peak. I'm a solution consultant here at hexagon for em and APM. And we're going to talk about how we can bring all of those, those two solutions together.

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Hold it. Hold it. You have enterprise asset management, yes. And then APM is, is our asset performance management, come on, yeah, but, but, come on. Is there some overlap with the terminology?

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No, maybe this. Yeah, okay, it is. That's how we we'd like to talk about how APM is not there to replace the AM, it's, it's there to enhance our capabilities around asset health, asset management across their entire life cycle. Sure, and we're going to start to bring that in with j5 as well. And a key to this is making sure that our users are experts in the solutions that give them the tools that they need to do their work on a daily basis without having to be experts in so in the scenario that we've got billing here, an operator in j5 is conducting their operator rounds on a mobile device in the same way that they've been doing the entire time. They've been using j5 as part of that, they're collecting data points within that round that APM is going to gather as part of an out of the box connection, right? So that data is going to be sent automatically and be made part of what we call a pattern protection in API. Okay, this pattern protection is looking at all of these data points that have been collected, and is actually looking for those patterns using a machine learning model that we train, that anybody can train without any coding whatsoever. It's all drag, click and drag. Yeah.

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Yeah, so I'm a I'm a technician. I'm out in the field. I'm running my my routines, whatever it might be. I'm looking at that motor. I'm taking specific data off of it, whatever the tools that I have, right, correct, that, but, but, but, I also have devices that are on there pulling data as well. Absolutely,

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I'm glad you brought that up. I did a PM. Is also going to be able to bring in sensor data from historians. We have out of the box connectors for OPC, UA and Aviva pi, so we can bring that information as well and make that part of protections. So while our operators are in j5 doing their regular duties there, APM is going to bring that in as well as that sensor data from those other solutions and monitor the work that we're doing in EAM, in what we call activity protections. Those are inspections, that's calibration, PMS, all those plans that's all going to be made part of a single solution. If APM notices a trend, maybe we miss one of those inspections by a given amount, we get to define what that looks like for our specific use case, those of us that are living in APM on a regular basis are Reliability Engineers, those higher level operations managers, we can either by hand or automatically create work from APM, send it to EAM, where our maintenance teams that are used to and familiar With all of the robust tools that EAM provides, right? All the planning, the scheduling, the statuses, the mobile capabilities, they're going to execute work in there, and we can reflect that work back in APM, okay,

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so what I'm hearing you say is that I've got a data tsunami, I've got information tsunami, it is absolutely you've got everything covered. What is that machine that sort of helps me as a technician is to be proactive and and insightful and know what to do, because I'm not going to just sort of look at all this data coming in. Yeah, I need something to sit there and say, Ah, here, right? Look at this. Yes, because that's why, yep, make it simple for

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me, right? So one of the ways that we're simplifying, not just that process, but also shortening the time to value, is with what we have our asset twin library in APM, so that's going to come out of the box with 202 twins based on ISO 55,000 standards that's going to include failure modes and different protections that we can put in place and use to monitor those pieces of equipment. So we know that on, say, a pump, for example, we need to do a vibration analysis right, have an alignment of the rotor, those are going to be known failure modes. We're going to have protections in place that come out of the box that we can use to get us started that much faster. So rather than having to build this all out for every single thing start to finish every single time, we can lean on that asset library, that twin library, to get us started. But again, What's critical is all of these points of data is are being captured across, yes, vast different solutions. We don't have to be experts in all of them, those j5 users that rely on that for those tools, they can still be experts in just that. They don't have to learn APM or EAM. Everybody can use the tools that they need that give them the most value. But there are no silos. They all share information.

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You have a system of record that is sort of making sure that all of that, all of that information is, has, has continuity between all of the other systems. And it's, you know, not, not some sort of reality over here and another reality over here, and it's all consistent.

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Am is can still act as that single source, yeah, about our asset history and

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our asset life. So I like it. I like it. Matt, fantastic. Much appreciated. Excellent. You don't have the same tennis shoes as everybody else. Why?

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I don't? I wish I knew I was looking forward. Yeah, she's

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but we, I, I'm all in me too. Yeah, where to come?

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I think we're gonna, we're gonna cut it there. We've given you a lot of letters. We've killed a lot of time, and we'll we might just stop right there, but we've got many more solutions we could go through. Well, yeah, but I think we've hit a couple of the highlights for you. Excellent.

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All right, how do people get a hold of you? Kyle. Kyle.Wessells@hexagon.com Let's see. But you're out on LinkedIn, because I can always create a little link in my website. It makes it easy for me to say, hey, just go out to Industrial Talk and connect with Kyle, because he's needs to be connected with because he knows what he's doing. That's Kyle. Thank you again, my friend. Thanks for your time. Great day. We're going to have another great conversation shortly. So stay tuned.

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Yeah, yeah, what did I tell you walking around chirping with all these leaders. It was a fantastic event, a hexagon live. Put that on your calendar. Look into those solutions. You cannot. You cannot let that day go by. You gotta, at least. Do your research, because they're pretty cool stuff. And it's just getting better. It's getting more focused. It is definitely in line with solving the today's challenges, and it just keeps on going. Oh, it was fantastic. All right, couple of action items. Get the ebook. Go out to industrial. Talk.com get the workbook. Go out to Industrial Talk.com connect with me. Go out to Industrial Talk.com let's have a conversation. Let's see how we can amplify your message each and every day. Let's do some webinars. Let's do some podcasts. Let's just do a lot of stuff to help you succeed, right. There it is, be bold, be brave. Dare greatly. Hang out with Team hexagon change the world. We're gonna have a great conversation shortly. So stay tuned. You.