Information audits of over 50 organisations indicates that crucial key business information is not where you think or wish it was. How do identify enterprise information management and leverage existing information stores and IT investment?
Applying IIOT to improve asset management in process - Yong The and Dr Anasta...Anastasia Govan Kuusk
The paper defines the current digital transformation elements and challenges the traditional extension of people, process and technology in the IT/OT, ISA-95 based convergence (north to south view) with the growing influence of IIoT that can provide a sensor view of the asset seamlessly to the corporate office. Advancements in hardware, software, sensors and network communications warrants revisiting to ensure the holistic view of data governance and organizational maturity that includes next generation concepts such as the introduction of fog computing, used in facilitating data access from next generation sensors at the edge into historians and beyond into the cloud for advanced analytics. Therefore, an increasingly holistic next generation maturity models needs to be considered when embarking on this digital transformation journey (east to west view).
AUTOMATING DATA FOR IIOT ASSET MANAGEMENT & CONTROL - A HOW TO FRAMEWORKAnastasia Govan Kuusk
The paper describes an evidence based construct hierarchy for engineering asset management based organisations to effectively bridge the great divide of operational (OT) and information technologies (IT) for data driven, automated asset management decision making. The research followed an interpretive epistemology conducted as case studies of seven mining, utility and defence based organisations and over fifty Technology and Engineering practitioners to establish TOP constructs through Delphi study survey rounds and interviews. The research findings suggests that end to end technology governance from asset to office is a complex, holistic, information governance driven system. The research highlights that governing of technology, organisational process and people (TOP) constructs in such a complex holistic system of converged OT and IT technology environment is beneficial to Engineering Asset Management (EAM) based organisations for value chain automation by consistently governing data. Without a framework to manage the complex system constructs organisations are unable to achieve timely, reliable, sustainable automated decision making and cost effective use of existing technology staff, hardware, software, networks and governance processes. The research findings prioritised TOP information governance based constructs across applications, telecommunication networks, data, tag and people management aspects of organisational ISA95/MES technology stacks. The resulting framework is an easy to apply conceptual framework for practitioners
Research results indicating steps and success factors for integrating operational and information technologies particularly for organisations that have critical asset infrastructure such as power stations, control and managed remotely using technology such as SCADA.
Operational and Information Technology convergence in asset intensive organis...Anastasia Govan Kuusk
Analysis of first round questionnaire results completed, second round currently underway. Results indicate same standards, open source solutions and planning are what practitioners indicate are the consensus regarding how, why and when organisations converge operational and information technology
Information audits of over 50 organisations indicates that crucial key business information is not where you think or wish it was. How do identify enterprise information management and leverage existing information stores and IT investment?
Applying IIOT to improve asset management in process - Yong The and Dr Anasta...Anastasia Govan Kuusk
The paper defines the current digital transformation elements and challenges the traditional extension of people, process and technology in the IT/OT, ISA-95 based convergence (north to south view) with the growing influence of IIoT that can provide a sensor view of the asset seamlessly to the corporate office. Advancements in hardware, software, sensors and network communications warrants revisiting to ensure the holistic view of data governance and organizational maturity that includes next generation concepts such as the introduction of fog computing, used in facilitating data access from next generation sensors at the edge into historians and beyond into the cloud for advanced analytics. Therefore, an increasingly holistic next generation maturity models needs to be considered when embarking on this digital transformation journey (east to west view).
AUTOMATING DATA FOR IIOT ASSET MANAGEMENT & CONTROL - A HOW TO FRAMEWORKAnastasia Govan Kuusk
The paper describes an evidence based construct hierarchy for engineering asset management based organisations to effectively bridge the great divide of operational (OT) and information technologies (IT) for data driven, automated asset management decision making. The research followed an interpretive epistemology conducted as case studies of seven mining, utility and defence based organisations and over fifty Technology and Engineering practitioners to establish TOP constructs through Delphi study survey rounds and interviews. The research findings suggests that end to end technology governance from asset to office is a complex, holistic, information governance driven system. The research highlights that governing of technology, organisational process and people (TOP) constructs in such a complex holistic system of converged OT and IT technology environment is beneficial to Engineering Asset Management (EAM) based organisations for value chain automation by consistently governing data. Without a framework to manage the complex system constructs organisations are unable to achieve timely, reliable, sustainable automated decision making and cost effective use of existing technology staff, hardware, software, networks and governance processes. The research findings prioritised TOP information governance based constructs across applications, telecommunication networks, data, tag and people management aspects of organisational ISA95/MES technology stacks. The resulting framework is an easy to apply conceptual framework for practitioners
Research results indicating steps and success factors for integrating operational and information technologies particularly for organisations that have critical asset infrastructure such as power stations, control and managed remotely using technology such as SCADA.
Operational and Information Technology convergence in asset intensive organis...Anastasia Govan Kuusk
Analysis of first round questionnaire results completed, second round currently underway. Results indicate same standards, open source solutions and planning are what practitioners indicate are the consensus regarding how, why and when organisations converge operational and information technology