Digital twins of complex technical systems for management of built environment

Nikolai Bolshakov,Alexander Fedotov,Vladimir Yadykin,Vladimir Badenko,Alberto Celani

doi:10.1088/1757-899x/869/6/062045

Abstract

The development of digital technologies captures a significant part of the economy and production, as well as business and management processes. Asset owners are given the opportunity to become additionally owners of digital assets, while the need for conceptual approaches and digital asset management is growing. With the increasing application of Building Information Modelling (BIM) for asset management within architecture, engineering, construction and owner-operated (AECO) sector, BIM-enabled asset management has been increasingly attracting more attentions in both research and practice. The problem associated with the development and production of facilities is related to the discrepancy between as-built as-designed and as-is facilities or complex technical systems. During the stages of design, construction, operation and maintenance (O&M), the actually manufactured (i.e. as-built) complex technical object (or production infrastructure) differs, sometimes significantly, from the designed (as-designed), and at the same time inconsistency between the created production and production infrastructure within which it should operate grows. Solving the problem of discrepancy between the actually created and designed facility or the complex technical system, in the absence of digital technologies, requires considerable time for the so-called “trial operation”, during which the discrepancies are eliminated and a mechanism for managing production and production infrastructure in real conditions is developed. With the development of the digital economy, the need for digitalization of asset management is growing. An analysis of existing information technologies shows that there is a possibility of reducing the cost of production and operation of an asset by concentrating the main costs at the design stage. The article discusses basic approaches to organizing the lifecycle management of technical systems, production and infrastructure in the context of global digitalization which become a useful tool for reduction of trial operation time. Further directions of research are formulated

Highlights

If we consider asset management in the context of the lifecycle [19], the introduction of information technologies will significantly reduce the costs for the owner throughout the entire lifecycle of the facility, concentrate consideration of all possible risks and costs at the design stage, and minimize possible additional costs at the production stages and operation [20]
The information model of the asset can be considered as a resource controlled by the company and capable of bringing economic benefits in the future, which means the digital model of the object itself acts as a digital asset
Digitalization of the economy leads to an increasing spread of the lifecycle contract both in real estate management [22] and in asset management in general

Summary

Introduction

This article reveals the essence of the described problem, and offers basic approaches to organizing the lifecycle management of complex technical systems, production and production infrastructures in the context of global digitalization. The main tasks are: 1) analysis of the nature of the discrepancy between the actual production process and the technical documentation for the production system at different stages of the lifecycle of objects; 2) based on this analysis, the formulation of basic approaches to the management of complex technical systems in the context of digitalization of construction and production, and, 3) the justification and formulation of areas for further research

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