Engineering to a Connected Environment

Technological disruption is here and the ability to embrace and harness it is the way forward. Digital Transformation is a process and to be successful, it is critical to get started. The companies that have successfully initiated this transformation get buy-in​ from stakeholders, plan for the big picture and take small steps to get there.

Borton-Lawson’s sister company, Precise Visual Technologies, is a comprehensive technology and business consulting group that focuses on operational optimization through digital transformation. PVT’s goal is to prepare clients to operate in a business environment that is technologically advanced and digitally connected.

The PVT team created and utilizes an assessment tool to help determine a client’s digital maturity level. Take the short survey to find out where your organization falls on our Digital Transformation Curve.

Digital Transformation

Borton-Lawson’s Digital Transformation Curve depicts the increased Return on Investment (ROI) over time as an organization’s assets are digitized, modeled and used to simulate events and processes. The ultimate goal of this digital transformation is to dynamically mimic processes in real-time.

A constant flow of new technologies is allowing industries to tie data from the onset of design through operations and maintenance. Clients are realizing long-term value in their investment when they ‘engineer for a connected environment’ rather than just seeing the design phase as a means to get to construction. Clients are asking us to deliver designs that can be assimilated into their Asset Management Systems and Building Management Systems; to seamlessly transfer knowledge between employees and to optimize communication and collaboration between all departments.

They are asking us to assist them in mitigating risk by simulating events digitally before they occur in the field. They are asking for the ability not only to diagnose systems but forecast what will happen in the future.

The companies that we see leveraging technology and getting the highest returns are being driven by executive leadership who understand that an innovative culture is critical to growth and even survival.

So where are you on this curve?

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Borton-Lawson’s Technology Journey

Borton-Lawson has undergone its own digital transformation throughout the last decade. Our firm has moved from operating in a 2D static environmental to virtualizing events through AR and VR. We are now also working clients on living models of their actual facilities by enabling real-time monitoring through compiling various data streams and integrating it into their management systems.

2D

  • Simple Graphics
  • Manual Data Extraction
  • Burdensome Iterations

2010

3D

  • Leverage Scanning
  • Improved Visualization
  • Collaboration & Verfication

Automation

  • Clash Detection
  • Bill of Materials
  • Parametric Relationship
  • Intelligent Iterations

Virtualization

  • AR/VR
  • Portal or Web Access
  • Remote Monitoring
  • Knowledge Transfer

Living Models

  • Simulations
    • Asset Health Monitoring
    • Virtual Consultation
  • Live Data Updates
    • Custom Applications
    • Big Data Metrics
    • Connected Assets
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James Tomaine, PE
Executive Director, Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority