{"id":79416,"date":"2020-07-16T11:37:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T10:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=79416"},"modified":"2020-07-16T11:39:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T10:39:48","slug":"asset-owners-digital-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction-news\/bim-news\/asset-owners-digital-twins\/79416\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital integrator to boost asset performance digital twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bentley.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bentley Systems<\/a> has announced its Acceleration Fund has launched The Cohesive Companies to act as a digital integrator to help infrastructure asset owners upgrade their enterprise environments to leverage digital twins<\/h2>\n<p>The Cohesive Companies will act as a digital integrator to help infrastructure asset owners upgrade their enterprise environments to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/bim-news\/digital-twins-infrastructure\/70121\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> leverage digital twins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It will enable digital representations and simulations of a physical asset, synchronising digital context (current existing conditions), digital components (engineering content), and digital chronology (lifecycle change management).<\/p>\n<p>The new business venture will include the services team from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bentley.com\/en\/products\/brands\/assetwise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bentley\u2019s AssetWise<\/a> business and the offerings of Bentley, Cohesive, and IBM\u2019s Maximo to support the digital transformation of infrastructure owner-operators.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cohesivesolutions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cohesive Solutions<\/a> is the largest North American reseller of IBM\u2019s Maximo enterprise asset management (EAM) software.<\/p>\n<p>Cohesive Solutions\u2019 domain expertise and consulting capabilities can now be extended to advance EAM to infrastructure digital twins.<\/p>\n<h3>Going digital for asset performance<\/h3>\n<p>As digital integrators for infrastructure asset performance, The Cohesive Companies\u2019 unique charter is the convergence, through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/bim-news\/digital-twins-light-rail\/76313\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">digital twin<\/a> cloud services, of digital engineering models (ET), with IT and OT, for infrastructure and facilities assets.<\/p>\n<p>Asset performance digital twins can provide continuous operational insights, enhanced through machine learning, for reliability, efficiency, compliance, safety, resilience and decision support to adaptively sustain and advance fitness for purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Noah Eckhouse, SVP Bentley Systems and CEO of The Cohesive Companies, said: \u201cInfrastructure asset owners know their success in going digital is based on both technology as well as experienced and dedicated resources for change management.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited to fully meet the opportunity for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/asset-management-built-environment\/62094\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asset performance<\/a> digital twins with Bentley Acceleration Fund\u2019s substantial commitment to this digital integrator venture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuilding on Cohesive Solutions\u2019 25-year history while launching Cohesive Asset Performance with a large team of seasoned Bentley AssetWise consultants, The Cohesive Companies have hit the ground running, ready to drive change and deliver positive outcomes!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>George Lowry, President, Cohesive Solutions, commented: \u201cThe Bentley Acceleration Fund\u2019s digital integrator initiative for advancing infrastructure\u2014by combining world-class software with best practices consulting, in going digital for asset performance\u2014completes the reach of our mission, from the start, at Cohesive Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur founders are delighted to now extend our scope, as a long-standing IBM Business Partner, to include advancing Maximo with Bentley\u2019s digital twin cloud services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pierre de Wet, GM and VP of Cohesive Asset Performance, said: \u201cThe formation of The Cohesive Companies, as digital integrators, created an opportunity to bring my global team of AssetWise services professionals into the mix, with a specific focus on asset information, performance, reliability, and analytics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m excited to join Noah and George to broaden our digital integrator capabilities and to offer a deeper range of services for AssetWise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Terrence O\u2019Hanlon, founder and chairman of <a href=\"https:\/\/reliabilityweb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reliabilityweb.com<\/a> and producer of 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