Accelerate your digital transformation journey to operational excellence

As market and margin pressures drive the need for continuous improvement when operating industrial assets, digitally transforming key processes to increase operational excellence becomes more vital to compete and win.

Asset owners need to unlock the potential of data to improve operator situational awareness and achieve operational excellence. But sharing asset data across internal and external stakeholders for improved collaboration, productivity and quality is easier said than done. And to be used effectively for better-informed, real-time decision-making, the data must be presented in a unified, role-based view from the connected worker in the field to the C-suite at headquarters.

This task can seem daunting, which is always out of reach in an industry where human error and information-related deficiencies are leading causes of incidents and unscheduled downtime that cost hundreds of millions of dollars annually.

“Hexagon empowers you to construct and operate more profitable, safe and sustainable industrial facilities”

The right digital transformation strategy, however, can address the many challenges in operating industrial assets:

• Maximizing production uptime and asset availability
• Reducing the potential for accidents during day-to-day operations, as well as planned or unplanned maintenance work
• Improving communication and data sharing across shifts to avoid operational disruptions
• Remaining compliant with safety-related operational processes and reporting
• Meeting regulatory and oversight requirements for managing business practices and communications
• Deciding on a “build or buy” strategy for digitalizing and modernizing key business processes
• Achieving rapid time-to-value for technology investments
• Documenting the business value created by technology change
• Reducing the inventory of applications used in operating a facility to reduce management costs
• Reducing the complexity and cost of integrations as digital drives more data creation

Elevating your operations through digital assets

Hexagon accelerates the digital maturity of industrial assets to enable improved operational integrity and performance, transforming your facilities into more autonomous and sustainable digital assets. With Hexagon, asset owner operators can normalize dispersed, unstructured and structured data to reduce operational risk, increase efficiency, decrease downtime, remove value leaks and meet internal and external compliance requirements.

By making the vital information from paper documents and archaic, siloed technologies more integrated, sharable and accessible in real time, Hexagon helps unlock the full potential of your data to enable the continuous analysis and actionable insights needed for smarter assets and improved operational excellence.

Hexagon solutions provide the power to leverage data wherever and whenever it’s needed dynamically. With Hexagon j5 Operations Management, paper-based forms and spreadsheets are standardized and transformed into easy-to-use, digitalized work processes. At the same time, Hexagon AcceleratorKMS ensures safe, reliable and repeatable operations through its rich knowledge management capabilities that deliver the information and training needed to get the job done efficiently and safely.

With PAS AlarmManagement™, you can easily implement industry-wide best practices to streamline and improve your alarm systems and operator effectiveness. PAS ControlWizard™ and PAS TuneWizard™ work together to monitor, assess and tune your control loops to ensure optimal performance, robust control and improve overall safety and reliability. PAS InBound® helps you create a master database of operational limits. With it, you can ensure alignment across all your sources of record and analyze your performance against those limits. PAS IPL Assurance® provides visibility into your Independent Protection Layers (IPL), making it easier to assure your operations are safe to run. And the PAS PlantState Integrity™ platform is interoperable with j5 Operations Management Solutions, adding further value to organizations investing in a digital transformation roadmap guided by Hexagon. Companies can further enhance information connection and interoperability by aggregating operational data and enabling a digital thread framework with HxGN SDx®. This central asset lifecycle information management (ALIM) solution is strategically designed to capture, organize and link large volumes of information, in context, and provides web-based access to your authorized personnel.

Hexagon also helps to ensure corporate Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) standards and practices are defined, implemented and driven through plant management while complying with local, state and federal rules and regulations.

All these capabilities are powered by Hexagon technology that ensures an integrated, seamless and collaborative experience that empowers users to:

• Leverage engineering and operations data to deliver more efficient, productive assets while ensuring regulatory compliance and managing EHS risk
• Share asset data across departments and stakeholders to improve collaboration, productivity and operational excellence
• Create a unified view of all operational data for more informed, real-time decision-making

Be confident in your operational excellence

With solutions that work seamlessly and flexibly across the entire industrial asset lifecycle, Hexagon’s ability to deliver digital your way unlocks increasing value in the processes you need to modernize the most — so you can achieve the priority outcomes your business needs to succeed. 

Oversee operations to ensure process safety and production goals are met
• Drive continuous improvement and process optimization
• Ensure adherence to company policies and procedures

Expedite the digital transformation of paper-based, high-risk, operational procedures and work processes
• Drive continuous improvement and process optimization
• Ensure adherence to company policies and procedures

Implement regulations and guidelines for strategic support and guidance
• Track and report issues
• Recommend courses of action to ensure compliance and resolve issues

Prevent operator fatigue
• Oversee staging and development of all production supervisors and staff
• Ensure safe operations and adherence to regulatory requirements

Bringing it All Together — Your Smart Digital Reality™

Maximizing the value of these new digital capabilities is your Smart Digital Reality, where Hexagon delivers a unified, role-based view of the physical and digital realities across your industrial facilities.

This integrated view delivers improved real-time visibility into asset performance, safety, security and quality, to enable better-informed decisions that increase productivity, operational integrity, profitability and sustainability of your industrial facilities.

It is fueled by the Digital Backbone, our engine for interoperability, intelligence and innovation that connects data across the entire industrial asset lifecycle, enabling you to achieve more with digital twins, third-party software and legacy systems.

Your Smart Digital Reality — powered by Hexagon Enables:

• Improved collaboration
• Accelerated innovation
• Smarter decision-making
• Increased productivity
• Predictive insights into potential disruptions
• Improved operational integrity
• Increased sustainability of your industrial facilities
• Heightened security against external or internal threats
• Greater resilience and more asset uptime
• Safer facilities and fewer accidents

Discover how Hexagon can help you unlock your data’s potential to achieve operational excellence.