For many Owner Operators and EPCs, the drive to ‘go digital’ has been firmly in their sights for some time, but an uncertainty around how to kickstart the process – or what the next steps might be towards achieving digital maturity – have stalled progress.
Here, Steven Bruce from Idox reviews the progress made to date by engineering companies, the challenges still being faced across the oil and gas (O&G) and energy and utilities sectors, and why a digital approach may be the key to leaner operating costs and improved asset management.