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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: Data and collaboration, operations and maintenance
Description: The operations and maintenance (O&M) sector has changed significantly since the inception of the 3P, or public private partnership, model in the 1990s. Once, these contracts merely assigned O&M responsibilities. Today, clients want suppliers to help them implement specific social and environmental values.
This is changing the way O&M contractors work. They must collaborate closely with clients, making sure they understand the client’s aims, and that they can fulfil these. To do that, they must have a deep understanding of an asset. A digital twin built alongside a project, can enable this understanding at...