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A new report from Mitie looks at the rise of digital transformation in M&E services. Here, Carlo Alloni, managing director of technical services, discusses the findings and the business benefits of embracing digital<\/h2>\n

Digital transformation is happening all around us. In our personal lives we\u2019re constantly connected, and it\u2019s increasingly complementing our working lives too, although some sectors are clearly more advanced than others.<\/p>\n

As an industry, there is real opportunity to be gained from digital transformation \u2013 both in terms of evolving our M&E services, identifying new opportunities and, ultimately, delivering better value for clients. In particular, we\u2019re finding that data analytics, digital twins<\/a>, automation and building management systems are creating new opportunities for predictive maintenance. So we decided to dig a little deeper and find out what facilities managers really think in our recent report, Digital Transformation: Is Facilities Management Ready?<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Downtime is money<\/h3>\n

Everyone wants their buildings and infrastructure assets to run at optimal levels, without disruption. It\u2019s a no brainer really \u2013 businesses need to be able to function. However, for many companies, minimising downtime is essential to an organisation\u2019s productivity and its bottom line. For example, if you\u2019re running a manufacturing plant, every minute lost impacts production.<\/p>\n

As the saying goes, prevention is better than the cure, so if we can pre-empt that cause, we can offer an invaluable service to clients. Such initiatives to reduce risk are in high demand, so it\u2019s unsurprising that an overwhelming 95% of respondents to our recent survey believe digital transformation will either have a high or at least medium impact on mechanical and electrical (M&E services) asset installation, replacement and maintenance over the next five years.<\/p>\n

Digital transformation offers the opportunity to gather the data we need to implement resilient infrastructure assets. That data can be drawn from a range of sources, including a business\u2019 buildings, processes and people, or from specially installed Internet of Things<\/a> (IoT) sensors. In fact, a high proportion of new mechanical and electrical equipment on the market today is pre-wired to be IoT-ready.<\/p>\n

However, the real value of digital transformation is not in the data collection. It\u2019s in analysing the data to drive real, actionable insights. It sounds simple, but the conversion to action is a step many people neglect.<\/p>\n

We already do this for many of our customers today from our Service Operation Centre in Bracknell. We create what is essentially a \u2018digital twin\u2019, an exact cloud-based replica of a customers\u2019 sites allowing us to remotely monitor and analyse the performance of their facilities. This \u2018digital twin\u2019 can monitor anything from infrastructure assets to energy management, and wellbeing and comfort policies.\"M&E<\/a><\/p>\n

Predict to prevent<\/h3>\n

When it comes to maintaining assets, knowing a certain piece of kit is likely to fail means you can prevent issues before they arise. This is transformative for M&E services. Engineering maintenance today is largely reactive and driven by human interaction, but digital transformation can change all that.<\/p>\n

In fact, we think the revolution is already here, as more than a quarter of our survey respondents (27%) claimed to have already made significant progress on digitising their \u201casset installation, replacement and maintenance\u201d. Suppliers who aren\u2019t part of the movement will surely be left behind.<\/p>\n

Reactive repair will eventually be obsolete as when an asset fails, its fix is reliant on someone noticing and logging a fault. An engineer is then called, who travels out to check on the issue, diagnoses the problem and orders apart, which can take days to be delivered, and then the engineer still has to travel back to the site again to make the repair. This involves at least two engineer journeys and many hours of asset downtime, which could seriously impact production, performance, and comfort within the business.<\/p>\n

In comparison, a predictive repair approach instead detects an anomaly by monitoring essential operating parameters and checking for anything falling outside of tolerance, such as vibration within an air conditioning unit.<\/p>\n

Analytics identify the source of the anomaly and predict component failure. A replacement part is ordered and an engineer scheduled to arrive onsite to coincide with the delivery of the part. So far, all this has happened automatically. The engineer arrives onsite, replaces the part, tests it and the asset returns to normal operation with minimal disruption.<\/p>\n

Journeys to the site and delays have been reduced and the work has been completed with zero downtime and minimal impact to the customer\u2019s site. It essentially means that you can resolve customer maintenance issues before they even happen. It\u2019s what we want to happen at our own sites, so this is exactly the level of service I think we should be providing to our customers.<\/p>\n

Bump up your BMS<\/h3>\n

It all sounds great, right? But none of this is possible without the assistance of a decent building management system (BMS) \u2013 and by decent, I don\u2019t mean it has to be flashy. An existing BMS can provide a bridge between new digital innovations and existing legacy infrastructure.<\/p>\n

A third (34%) of the people in our survey are clearly keen to leverage their BMS system, as they said \u201cautomated building controls\u201d are an essential element of delivering a digitally connected workplace. A site\u2019s assets may typically be older but, by using a BMS to connect into these legacy assets, you can monitor them without the investment of a huge capital project or needing to buy new assets with built-in sensors.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re seeing that the benefit of connecting to older assets via a BMS is particularly relevant, given that 39% of our survey respondents cited \u201clegacy system replacement costs\u201d as one of the top barriers to realising business value.<\/p>\n

However, a BMS isn\u2019t necessarily a panacea, as they can become outdated themselves, creating barriers of their own. If a system is \u201cclosed protocol\u201d, it\u2019s harder for anybody to go in and maintain it, connect to it, pull the data out, and start to run analytics algorithms. So, in order to create true connection, organisations need to ensure they have a modern open protocol BMS, which enables connectivity and software optimisation.<\/p>\n

The Connected Engineer<\/h3>\n

The potential impact of digital transformation on M&E services doesn\u2019t end there.<\/p>\n

The advent of industrial 5G<\/a> and the resulting boost to augmented reality capabilities opens up new opportunities. We\u2019re already exploring a new service called the Connected Engineer through which field engineers equipped with mixed reality smart glasses can, quickly and conveniently, draw upon a wealth of up-to-the-minute data and additional expertise.<\/p>\n

Combining augmented reality with wearables allows our engineers to do the work they need to, hands-free, yet still have up-to-date asset data without having to carry documents, drawings or manuals. They can also share what they\u2019re seeing with our remote monitoring Service Operations Centre team to draw upon additional experience, support and specific asset expertise should they need to. Essentially, it ensures an optimum, efficient right-first-time fix, which is a win for our client and a win for us.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear that there are digital transformation opportunities for M&E maintenance, repair and installation, and it\u2019s something our clients are looking for us to deliver. It\u2019s also core to us in adding value for our clients, whether that be reduced downtime or limiting the irritation of lengthy fixes on faulty assets.<\/p>\n

And digital transformation goes even further than this. It enables us to capture information, and therefore provide insights that offer benefits way beyond just maintenance to almost every aspect of the business \u2013 such as energy savings, CO2 reduction and ensuring the most efficient use of assets and space. One thing is certain: suppliers who don\u2019t use digital transformation to create tangible building and business resilience will be left behind.<\/p>\n

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Carlo Alloni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Carlo Alloni<\/strong><\/p>\n

Managing director, technical services<\/p>\n

Mitie<\/a><\/p>\n

info@mitie.com<\/a><\/p>\n

www.mitie.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Twitter:\u00a0@mitie<\/a><\/p>\n

LinkedIn:\u00a0mitie<\/a><\/p>\n

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