The A-Z of Industry Insights • Kongsberg Digital

The A-Z of

Industry Insights

Your essential guide to mastering the language, terms and concepts used by Kongsberg Digital – and our industries.

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Analytics

We all know analytics. To be more specific, analytics in technologies like a dynamic digital twin help turn raw information into actionable knowledge, contextualising information within the specific operations and roles of energy professionals.

Analytical capabilities like performance metrics, predictive trends, and efficiency benchmarks empower users to navigate the complexities of the energy landscape for smarter decision-making.

APIs

Pronounced letter by letter (ay – pee – eye) – that’s how the cool people say it – Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) facilitate seamless data exchange and communication between the Industrial Work Surface and external systems and applications. They play a vital role in accelerating the interoperability and extensibility of digital twin ecosystems. APIs also allow for the development of custom applications, features and technologies that support scalability as the energy landscape evolves.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

You probably know what AI is. All we’ll say is… it’s some next-level stuff. The Industrial Work Surface uses AI algorithms to analyse vast datasets, recognise patterns and derive valuable insights relevant to stakeholders and knowledge workers.

AI helps power workflows like predictive monitoring and simulation, allowing you to anticipate potential challenges, optimise the use of resources and improve overall operational performance. It goes beyond automation, enabling technologies like digital twin to adapt and learn from real-time data to support energy and maritime professionals in making informed, data-driven decisions.

Asset Management

The oversight and optimisation of physical and virtual assets throughout their lifecycle to ensure maximum efficiency and minimal risk. In the Industrial Work Surface, a cornerstone of asset management is the creation and maintenance of a digital twin of physical assets, ensuring a digital representation that mirrors the real-world asset’s status, behavior and conditions.

Automation

The systematic integration of intelligent processes to streamline and optimise operational workflows. It’s not all robots and machines, though. Keeping the human in the loop, the Industrial Work Surface leverages algorithms and machine learning capabilities to perform routine tasks and data analysis, working towards more autonomous decision-making processes for mundane and resource-intensive tasks. Automation helps energy professionals focus on strategic aspects of their roles by reducing repetitive actions and the need for manual intervention

See also: Autonomy, AI, Human in the loop

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Autonomy

A system’s capacity to operate independently and make decisions according to algorithms, learnings from historical data, and predetermined rules. No free roaming robots here, it’s all data driven.

Autonomy allows the Industrial Work Surface to carry out tasks, simulations, and analyses without constant manual oversight or intervention. This independence extends to responding dynamically to unexpected changes and optimising processes in real-time.

See also: Industrial Work Surface

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Blockchain

Not just a chain of blocks. It’s a decentralised and secure distributed ledger technology that enhances transparency and traceability in energy-related data exchanges by building a tamper-proof system that records and verifies transactions across a network of nodes. Smart contracts can be implemented to automate and enforce transactions with predefined rules and agreements, improving compliance monitoring and ensuring contractual obligations.

Business Process Management (BPM)

The systematic design, execution, monitoring, and optimisation of workflows and processes to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness throughout the energy ecosystem. In human speak – the Industrial Work Surface gives energy companies a single digital environment for BPM to foster agility, efficiency and adaptability in response to the evolving demands of the energy industry.

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Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

A comprehensive approach to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions by capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) produced from industrial processes, transporting it, and storing it securely underground to prevent its release into the atmosphere.

Carbon Intensity Index (CII)

Within the maritime industry, the CII is a metric designed to measure and quantify the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions produced per unit of cargo transported or distance covered in maritime operations.

To help operators and ship owners comply with CII ratings, the Industrial Work Surface offers workflows including vessel monitoring, route optimisation, and performance benchmarking to compare the carbon intensity performance for different vessels, routes, and operational strategise.

Cockpits

We don’t sell airplanes. We mean a specialised dashboard designed to show users an overview of priority areas, upcoming tasks, and recently completed workflows – a real-time, centralised snapshot of critical information that can be customised to your liking with widgets.

Collaboration

What happens when users are given technology that creates a synergistic environment where they can share insights and contribute to cross-team decision-making processes. Industrial Work Surface capabilities that foster collaboration include a chat function within the digital twin, document sharing and annotation features, and the ability to share the same operational view with multiple users to discuss, share, and learn from available information.

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Community

The Kongsberg Digital Community is a hub where you can find product updates, access training materials and engage in discussion groups to share insights, give feedback and seek guidance about our software solutions.

Visit our Community →

Condition Monitoring

The continuous (seriously, it’s 24/7) and real-time assessment of the health and performance of physical assets, equipment, and systems to ensure optimal operation and proactively address potential operational issues.

Connected Worker

An empowered professional whose daily tasks and decision-making processes are augmented by seamless access to collaboration tools, real-time data and contextual insights within an AI-infused digital twin environment. Remember to plug in and recharge your batteries!

Contextualisation

The process of interpreting and presenting data in a way that makes sense to the role, task and operational context of the user. Key aspects include role-based insights, operational relevance, data integration to enrich the worker’s context, and a user-friendly interface.

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Co-innovation

Collaborative and mutually beneficial partnerships between our company and energy/maritime stakeholders to drive innovation, solve industry challenges and co-create impactful software solutions.

Co-pilot

We don’t train pilots. We mean the concept of providing users with tailored dashboards that serve as their command center, offering an easy-to-use interface to navigate and manage operations and workflows related to the user’s specific context.

Create vs. Compete

The future is a place of change, where things are not like they were yesterday and will change again tomorrow. Competition is about winners and losers, but creation is about bringing something new into the world. To create a better tomorrow that is safer, smarter and greener – we need to focus on building creation and supporting creators, together.

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Data

Information derived from various sources like sensors, IoT devices, historical records, documents, and external databases. When ingested into a single source of information, this data can provide a comprehensive and holistic view of the energy ecosystem within a digital twin.

By incorporating real-time data streams, energy professionals can make decisions based on the latest operational conditions, trends and recommendations displayed within the digital twin.

Taking it one step further, advanced analytics tools and simulation capabilities can process and analyse immense volumes of data to extract valuable insights and patterns for more informed decision-making and optimisation of energy-related processes across the value chain.

See also: DataOps, Real-time, Optimisation

DataOps

The development, deployment, and management of data operations within the digital twin environment. What do you get? Efficiency! Quality! Reliability!

Some interesting things related to DataOps that you’ll hear us talk about include data integration and automated workflows. Stay tuned!

Digitalisation

The art of converting your analogue processes and information into a digital format, adopting digital technologies to change the way you work for improved workflows and increased automation. The focus here is on optimising individual processes within your org. It’s a start… but next up, you’ll need to transform.

Digital transformation

The brave, strategic step that you and your company take to leverage technology for optimisation, automation and decision-making across business models, operations, processes, teams and experiences. This goes beyond individual processes and requires you to reimagine how you work today. Buckle up – it’s going to be a wild ride!

Digital Twin

A virtual representation of a physical asset, system or process. Think of it as an exact digital copy that includes an overview of data from sources like sensors, IoT devices, historical records, drawings and systems. A digital twin is typically static, while a dynamic digital twin (see below) includes real-time data and simulation capabilities to help predict the behaviour of the physical counterpart.

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Digital Performance Model (DPM)

A collection of digitally designed industrial organisation assets framed within a holistic strategy (focusing on high-frequency, low-value actions) linking data and humans to decisions and outcomes through the power of AI. The result: Complete real-time visibility across your portfolio and the business intelligence necessary to make rapid, high-quality decisions that drive greater performance and profitability.

Intimidated? Don’t worry, we’re here to help you build the blueprint and find a DPM that works for your business.

Dynamic Digital Twin

Your traditional digital twin made better. A dynamic digital twin continuously evolves and adapts to real-time data inputs, providing a dynamic and responsive way to deal with complex workflows and critical issues through a single environment – the Industrial Work Surface.

See also: Industrial Work Surface

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Ecosystem

We also talk about an ecosystem of digital twins, a network that allows digital twins to coexist and interact. That means information and insights can be shared between interconnected digital twins to create a comprehensive, collaborative, and intelligent digital representation of the entire energy landscape.

Efficiency

The optimisation of processes, technologies and operations to achieve the highest level of productivity, cost-effectiveness and sustainability for industries, workers and society. Think of it as being able to do more with less, faster.

Enablement

The process of empowering individuals, teams and organisations with the resources and tools they need to achieve their goals in the best way possible. Paths to enablement include providing training, support and access to relevant technologies and information. Digital twin is an enabler for the energy transition. The Kongsberg Digital Community platform is an enabler for helping you make the most of the technologies we offer.

End-to-end

A comprehensive and integrated approach that covers the entire lifecycle of something, from inception to completion. This is a good one, so forgive us for using it in different contexts.

We talk about end-to-end processes and workflows, meaning users can do a task from start to finish within the Industrial Work Surface.

We also talk about end-to-end across the value chain, which involves seamless coordination and optimisation of all the interconnected steps within the energy domain.

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Energy Management

The planning, monitoring and optimisation of energy resources and consumption within an organisation or across the industry. Energy management is an enabler for sustainability goals that aim to reduce waste and ensure efficient energy use.

Energy Transition

Be part of something bigger. The energy transition is the global shift from traditional, fossil fuel-based energy systems towards an energy mix that includes more sustainable and low-carbon alternatives. We’re talking energy efficiency and shaping the future of work for safer, smarter and greener ways of working.

ETCA (Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam)

A collaborative community situated in a state-of-the-art, sustainable building, symbolizing a shared ambition to provide innovative solutions for the energy transition. Together with Shell, Kongsberg Digital has a team stationed at ETCA to contribute to solving the world’s biggest energy challenges through technology, collaboration and co-innovation.

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FieldTwin

FieldTwin by FutureOn is a cloud-based digital platform that helps Integrated Energy Companies make smarter and faster decisions throughout the lifecycle of projects – it’s also where you can design offshore wind farms and hybrid energy systems to build in a digital red thread from the start of your project.

Fleet Management

If you’re a shipowner or a midstream operator, we don’t need to tell you what fleet management is. What we can tell you is that a digital twin can help you monitor and manage your fleet by providing new data insights and recommendations for maintenance and optimisations to increase your operational efficiency.

See also: Vessel Insight (maritime), Industrial Work Surface (energy)

FutureOn

A tech company that develops and delivers digital twin technology to the energy sector and is a leading player in planning, engineering and lifecycle optimisation. FutureOn operates independently, with Kongsberg Digital as its majority owner.

Future Digital

A series of B2B events where senior executives from the oil and gas, energy and utilities industries convene to discuss important industry topics and exchange ideas on implementing digital twin and AI-related solutions. Look out for panels featuring Kongsberg Digital speakers and thought leaders – we’re at every event!

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Future of Work

At Kongsberg Digital, we use technology to shape the future of work – completely transforming how, when and where we work, all driven by tech. With our Industrial Work Surface, industries can transform their old ways of working to improve efficiency, sustainability and performance while keeping humans in the loop and harnessing the power of AI to transform their data.

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Generative AI

Generative AI learns to create new and unique content by understanding data patterns, unlike traditional AI systems that rely on pre-existing data. A digital twin enhanced with Generative AI provides advanced contextualisation, offering users a more flexible and intuitive approach to interacting with extensive data sets.

Generative AI means we can provide you with capabilities like sophisticated chatbots, copilots and advanced search functions to help you work more effectively, especially when information is available in a central environment (like our Industrial Work Surface).

Greener

Greener is one of the pillars in our mission statement safer, smarter, and greener.
Greener is about creating and implementing technology that reduces environmental impact, improves sustainability and enhances resource efficiency. Kongsberg Digital provides technology that:

Reduces carbon emissions through CCS
Optimises energy consumption through AI-driven recommendations for operational optimisations

Helps companies design and manage assets sustainably for the long term

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Historical Trend Analysis

Historical trend analysis involves examining past data over a specific period to identify patterns, trends, and correlations. This analysis helps in understanding how variables or factors have evolved over time, providing insights for forecasting future outcomes or making informed decisions based on past trends.

Our solutions blend historical trend analysis with machine learning, AI and real-time data, culminating in predictive recommendations. We’re basically giving you a superpower to see the future!

HSE

HSE refers to ensuring the protection of human health, safety and environmental conservation during operations. It goes hand in hand with our mission statement of safer, smarter and greener. Enabling more offsite work, achieving faster emergency response times, being data-driven to prevent breakdowns and using digital twin simulations for safer training and operations – rest assured, HSE is always top of mind, and we go the extra mile to make sure it’s built into our technology.

Human in the loop

Kongsberg Digital believes that even though AI and Machine Learning help people do better, it’s essential to keep humans in the loop. That’s why we design our software in a way that keeps you at the center of the decision-making process, equipped with all the information you need to make the best choices every time. It’s all about you, dear reader!

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Hybrid Machine Learning

At Kongsberg Digital, we have worked for years on implementing Hybrid Machine Learning – a practice that combines Machine Learning with synthetic data from 1st principles physics-based simulation models. With our Industrial Work Surface, you can apply hybrid machine learning capabilities to run predictions and “what if” analyses of multiple operational scenarios. Neat, right?

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Industrial Work Surface

Where the magic happens. The Industrial Work Surface makes asset data more accessible and meaningful to humans and machines by connecting systems, historical and real-time data in a single digital environment that can be accessed from any location in the world. With information, alarms and operational recommendations available in just a click, users can plan, manage and execute end-to-end workflows and make more informed decisions. For operators, it’s a unified interface for monitoring and controlling operations in an analytical way that can tie operations back to business value.

Industry 5.0

Industry 5.0 represents the next evolution of industry following Industry 4.0. In Industry 5.0, advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and automation are integrated with a strong focus on human collaboration, creativity and sustainability.

Remember we mentioned the human in the loop? That’s the focus of Industry 5.0: to leverage human skills, intuition and empathy alongside technological capabilities to drive innovation, efficiency and social responsibility.

Insights

Insights refer to valuable or meaningful understandings gained from analysing data, information or observations. In the Industrial Work Surface, insights are delivered in intuitive interfaces – the cockpits we mentioned – helping users narrow down relevant information and get an instant overview of alarms and events that require immediate action. Better insights lead to better actions!

Integration

Integration involves linking different software applications, databases or hardware systems to enable seamless communication, data exchange and interoperability. We prioritise seamless integration of our solutions into customers’ existing tech stacks by offering agnostic solutions and utilising APIs – let’s keep things inclusive.

Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to a network of interconnected devices or objects embedded with sensors, software and other technologies that enable them to collect and exchange data over the Internet. What does that mean for you? You can connect collected data in a single place to enhance monitoring, decision-making and operational efficiency – for oil and gas sites, renewable energy projects and maritime operations.

Interoperability

Integration and interoperability are related concepts in the tech world, but they refer to slightly different aspects of system compatibility and communication: Integration merges functionalities, while interoperability enables seamless interaction between systems. To make life easy for you, we do both. Seamless data flow between systems and equipment, presented in a user-friendly manner, is a cornerstone of our products.

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Journey

When we talk about journeys, we’re usually referring to your digital transformation journey – the process of incorporating powerful, sophisticated digital tooling to change the way you work and augment human decision-making with AI and technology. Don’t worry, we’re here to help you make sure it’s a success.

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Knowledge worker

A knowledge worker deals with generating, analysing and applying knowledge as part of their job. We’re talking about our thousands of users who rely on the Industrial Work Surface for insights and decision-support in their daily work, combining their knowledge with AI- and technology-assisted decision-making loops to make our world a better place.

See also: Industry 5.0, Industrial Work Surface

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Kognitwin®

Imagine a digital twin of an asset – like an upstream, midstream, downstream or chemical facility – where you can monitor operations, calibrate settings and apply changes to make it run safer, smarter and greener. Meet Kognitwin®!

Our digital twin platform integrates real-time data, advanced analytics, and simulation capabilities to create digital replicas of physical assets, enabling predictive maintenance, performance optimisation and decision support.

Kognitwin® Grid

Kognitwin® Grid is our digital win for power grids, where data, technology, and people come together to solve problems – enabling operators to maximise the value of their existing grid. It’s where you get a holistic overview of your grid and its components, it’s where you can forecast bottlenecks and voltage deviation and it’s where you can develop a future-proof grid by running long-term grid scenarios.

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Kongsberg Digital

Reportedly the best company in the world! Kongsberg Digital is a subsidiary of the Norwegian technology company Kongsberg Gruppen, with a long, long history (over 200 years).

Specialising in digital solutions tailored for maritime, energy, and utilities sectors, we bring transformative technology and unparalleled expertise to the table. From boosting productivity to fostering growth and sustainability, we’re here to redefine what’s possible for industrial companies worldwide.

K-SIM

Our digital solution that’s specifically tailored to collect, analyse, and harness data from onboard systems and sensors in real-time. From proactive vessel maintenance to elevated decision-making, K-SIM is used by maritime operators worldwide to optimise performance and ensure regulatory compliance.

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LedaFlow®

LedaFlow Technologies DA is a company comprising four partners: ConocoPhillips, TotalEnergies, SINTEF and Kongsberg Digital. Positioned as the preferred multiphase flow assurance provider, it’s an advanced software solution that enhances decision-making accuracy and cost-effectiveness through precise flow predictions. LedaFlow® helps you operate more sustainably, supporting net-zero and greenhouse gas reduction goals by facilitating the development of carbon capture and storage technologies.

Lifecycle planning

Lifecycle planning involves managing a product or project from start to finish, considering factors like cost, performance, and sustainability at each stage to ensure success and value realization.

We help customers build in a digital red thread from construction to operations – seamlessly integrating with existing digital ecosystems and emerging technology to cover all asset lifecycle stages. From platforms to pipelines, our solution provides a single environment for operators to execute work from start to finish.

LivePlan

LivePlan is our cloud-based solution for optimising day-to-day operations for industrial facilities. It integrates all relevant planning and execution data into one dynamic environment, adding layers of live re-planning functionality, automated schedule optimisation algorithms and much more.

LNG

Liquified natural gas (LNG) is a promising alternative to conventional energy sources like oil and coal. Did you know that LNG development companies can leverage a digital twin from the construction phase through to operations? LNG Canada has used our operational digital twin during the construction phase of their project, and it will remain with the facility throughout its lifecycle to support maintenance and operations functions. A friend for life!

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Machine Learning

Computers that learn from data and make decisions on their own – pretty cool, huh? Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) that involves developing algorithms and models so that computers can learn from data and make predictions or decisions without being explicitly programmed to do so.

In our Industrial Work Surface, you can use machine learning and hybrid machine capabilities to run “what if” analyses across various operational scenarios and find the most optimal operational parameters.

See also: Artificial intelligence, Hybrid Machine Learning

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Navigation

How can you direct a vessel at sea or on other waterways to reach a desired destination safely and efficiently if you’ve never done it before? We level up maritime training with cloud-based simulations – our tech, powered by advanced physics and hydrodynamic modeling, gives students ultra-realistic experiences, just like in real life.

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Net-Zero

The compass toward a sustainable future! Net-Zero refers to the balance between the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere and the amount removed or offset, resulting in no additional contribution to global warming. CCS technology offers a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial processes, transporting it and securely storing it underground to prevent atmospheric release (pro tip: you can learn more about this by checking out LedaFlow®).

See also: Zero Emissions, LedaFlow®, CCS

New ways of working

Modern workplaces are evolving, and we see technology as the key driver for future possibilities. We apply game-changing technology and a digital performance model (DPM) approach to some of today’s biggest challenges across key industrial sectors, enabling customers to improve their ways of working. This means better efficiency, more collaboration and a more sustainable future. New ways of working are all about a technology-driven future – while keeping humans in the loop, of course!

See also: Digital Performance Model, Human in the loop, Future of Work

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Optimisation

We use this word a lot, because it’s a big part of achieving energy efficiency and maritime excellence! We see it as the act of fine-tuning performance to get the best results possible, aiming for maximum efficiency and effectiveness while minimising waste or inefficiencies. For vessels, this could mean using less fuel and identifying more optimal routes. For energy operators, benefits include improved just-in-time maintenance, more efficient performance recommendations and enabling remote work to reduce on-site staffing.

Open Standards

These are publicly available guidelines or protocols developed collaboratively to ensure compatibility and interoperability across different technologies. The benefit? Smooth-as-softened-butter data flows through a common framework for data organisation and exchange.

An industry example: WITSML, the industry standard for transmitting drilling, completions and workover data between organisations in the oil and gas industry. Our solution SiteCom® is compliant with the latest WITSML 2.1 and ETP 1.2 standards.

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Partners

Our company has always valued and appreciated partners, from developing KogniTwin® Grid together with Microsoft, SINTEF and other players in the power industry to partnering up with StormGeo to transform how performance data is gathered, analysed, and utilised for maritime customers. We offer access to third-party applications to maritime customers through the Vessel Insight marketplace and actively engage with innovation partners on the energy side.

Predictive analytics

It’s like a crystal ball for businesses – using past data to foresee future events! Predictive analytics involves using historical data, statistical algorithms and machine learning techniques to identify patterns, analyse trends and forecast future outcomes or behaviours. The Industrial Work Surface facilitates predictive analytics, helping to mitigate potential operational risks across the value chain.

See also: Industrial Work Surface

Performance

In our world, the term means two things:

The efficiency and reliability of our software systems to execute tasks, process data and generate results.
One of the main benefits that digital twins and AI bring to industries, businesses and workers, is improving performance for individual workers and operations.

Performance Monitoring

Don’t wait for problems to arise – catch those little problems before they become big headaches! Performance monitoring refers to the continuous observation, tracking, and analysis of processes, systems, or data over time to assess performance – and by using our products, you benefit from a single interface for performance monitoring of any asset or vessel.

The Industrial Work Surface is where you can see the state of equipment and processes in a user-friendly virtual environment and use these insights to take actions that can maximise performance while improving efficiency.

Predictive Maintenance

Take action to prevent costly unscheduled deferment and unplanned downtime. Maintenance is about taking care of things to keep them working smoothly. It involves regular checks, fixes, and preventive actions to prevent breakdowns. Of course, a site has thousands of parts that need to be kept in check. That’s why our solutions help you monitor equipment and plan and schedule maintenance from any location.

Armed with the latest real-time operational data and using the capabilities that make our solutions smart, our software even helps you predict equipment failure and implement just-in-time maintenance for maximum efficiency.

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Quality

One of our top priorities – for you and for us! Our solutions are designed, developed and deployed with top quality in mind, ensuring that you get technology infused with domain and technical expertise. A commitment to quality leads to more reliable, safer asset and vessel management.

Query

A query enables users to extract relevant information and perform analysis or processing tasks. Our new AI chatbot in The Industrial Work Surface is the perfect place to make queries, allowing users to input simple text questions and get insightful responses backed by real data.

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Real-time

Real-time refers to the immediate or instantaneous processing, transmission or display of data, information or events as they occur – without any significant delay.

Real-time insights are key in our solutions; from training maritime students and crews through real-time simulation to improved rig and overall operational performance by getting real-time predictions using SiteCom®. Real-time = instant data, instant action!

Remote monitoring

Remote monitoring involves the real-time observation, tracking and management of equipment, systems or processes from a location that is physically distant from the monitored assets.

KogniTwin® is a great example; Imagine a digital twin of an energy asset that enables people to monitor an asset’s system processes and equipment from anywhere in the world.

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Remote Work

If you’re still confused about remote work, did you just wake up from a four-year nap? Since the pandemic, remote work has taken off like a rocket – and we couldn’t be more grateful. The Industrial Work Surface enables remote work by being a single source of truth for people working from different locations in the world – so you can visualise, contextualise, plan, manage and execute field production operations digitally from any location, at any time, 24/7. And not just that, but you can move people out of harm’s way by limiting the number of workers that are deployed to hazardous work environments. Priceless!

Rig Manager

Rig Manager® is our unique integrated rig management software solution developed to meet the many challenges of managing offshore installations. It’s never been easier to improve drilling vessel management and make daily operations more efficient.

Risk Mitigation

Risk mitigation involves identifying and addressing potential risks to minimise their impact. Are you looking to sharply reduce accidents and injuries? Simulation is the perfect way to skill up for safety success, helping to familiarise workers with standard operating procedures and risk mitigation measures in a safe environment.

Routing

One of the mysteries of the universe: the optimal way to get from A to B. With Vessel Insight, you can access effective data-driven routing strategies that help reduce fuel consumption and consider weather patterns, equipment performance and other operational data points.

See also: Vessel Insight, HSE, Simulation

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Safer

Safer is the first pillar in our mission statement: safer, smarter, and greener. It includes enabling more offsite work, achieving faster emergency response times through training, using simulation to play out situations and mitigate risk, and being data-driven to prevent breakdowns through our game-changing solutions.

See also: Smarter, Greener, Remote Work, Simulation

Smarter

Smarter is another pillar in our mission statement: safer, smarter, and greener. Here’s an example: Instead of navigating between half a dozen systems to complete one task, it’s smarter to bring it all together in one end-to-end digital workflow. That’s the type of forward-thinking benefit we strive to offer through our solutions.

Sea-to-Cloud

Sea-to-Cloud is Kongsberg Digital’s exclusive maritime event, bringing together industry experts to discuss insights on industry trends, challenges, and opportunities and share how our solutions are helping them shape the future of work.

See also: Vessel Insight, Future of Work

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Simulation

Simulation refers to the replication of real-world processes, systems or events using computer software, mathematical models or physical models. Our specialty? Incorporating mathematical and physical simulation models into our software.

With the Industrial Work Surface, you gain access to high-fidelity, real-time simulations reflecting your process facilities’ current state. This is the superpower you need to identify and optimise day-to-day operations safely and more effectively.

Single Source of Truth

Engineers deal with too many systems and applications that are disconnected — and often outdated. One source of truth is like the go-to place where everyone knows they can find reliable data for making decisions, avoiding mix-ups and mistakes that come from using multiple sources.

The Industrial Work Surface enables you to connect data, assets and all your experts in a digital twin that facilitates more effective end-to-end operations, in an intuitive and user-friendly way.

See also: Industrial Work Surface

SiteCom®

SiteCom® is Kongsberg Digital’s solution for safer and more reliable well operations and improved decision-making.

A quick summary of some main SiteCom® benefits: enhance well operation planning, optimise offshore well procedures and rig automation, enable real-time monitoring and integrate real-time analysis support.

Situational Awareness

Situational awareness is the ability to understand and interpret relevant information about one’s environment in real-time. It’s also something we value in our solutions: through 3D modelling in the digital twin, users get visual representations of key facilities and can gain a quick understanding of the current status, upcoming tasks and any issues worth addressing immediately.

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Sustainability

Kongsberg Digital’s vision is to digitalise the world’s industries. Our work towards this vision is our most important contribution to a more sustainable world. Why? Because digitalisation is a key enabler for more sustainable operations in all industries. From a more sustainable fleet with Vessel Insight to safer and more sustainable operations with simulation and delivering net zero through digital twin and CCS technology – sustainability is at our core.

See also: Net-Zero, Vessel Insight, LedaFlow®, Kognitwin®

Systems of work

A system of work outlines the procedures for carrying out tasks. We give customers the Industrial Work Surface, an environment that embeds systems of work for the future – ones that help businesses connect strategic objectives with resource coordination and a structured way to follow operational inputs, actions and outputs that occur across the business every day.

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Technology

Ah, technology. It’s the lifeline of modern civilization, isn’t it? We love this word because it resonates far and wide, transforming the present and shaping the future. At our core, we see technology as the gateway to innovation, allowing us to leverage cutting-edge tools like digital twins, AI and simulation to shape a better future of work for industries.

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The Tomorrow Show

.. is the place to be! The Tomorrow Show is our big annual technology event filled with insightful keynotes, panel sessions, customer stories, industry talks, product launches and more. From digital twins and AI to DataOps, simulation, automation, and beyond, we’re here to explore it all – get ready!

Visit The Tomorrow Show →

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User-friendly

User-friendly describes products, systems, or interfaces designed to be easy to use, understand and navigate by the intended users, typically without requiring extensive training or specialised knowledge – no wonder we humans can’t resist user-friendliness!

Our dedication to user-friendly tools stems from their ability to foster alignment in workplace situations and operational processes across teams. We work hard to ensure that our technology is intuitive and easy to use for users at all levels of digital proficiency.

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Vessel Insight

Vessel Insight is a Kongsberg Digital ship-to-cloud data infrastructure that gives shipping companies and ship owners a simple and cost-effective way to unlock the value of their data. Data is captured from multiple sources onboard and made available for use in other applications and services to optimise operations. Efficiency, ahoy!

Vessel Insight Marketplace

Think of it as a shopping mall for maritime operators. The Vessel Insight Marketplace is a digital platform that facilitates the exchange of data-driven solutions, services and applications within the maritime industry. It serves as a marketplace where shipping companies, ship owners and other stakeholders can access a variety of tools, technologies and insights that help them optimise vessel operations.

Vessel Performance

Vessel Performance is part of our maritime solution and promotes an evidence-based, data-driven culture of continuous improvement. It improves crew awareness of ship performance, supports environmental compliance and can assist customers in reducing energy usage, fuel consumption and operating costs. The system provides details on fuel consumption and energy efficiency levels benchmarked against historical performance and can be configured to meet specific customer needs across a wide range of vessels.

Visualisation

The all-important ability to get an instant visual overview of a physical asset – right down to individual equipment pieces – within a digital twin. And not only that, with a built-in operational cockpit you can also see alerts and alarms for upcoming work and where operational issues need immediate attention.

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Workflows

Tasks, steps or processes that need to be completed to achieve a specific goal or outcome – basically, the things that make up your everyday work life. The Industrial Work Surface is the perfect place to plan, manage and collaborate on end-to-end workflows because it’s a single place to find information, execute tasks and work with colleagues while looking at the same operational view.

See also: Industrial Work Surface

Well Integrity

Well integrity refers to the condition and reliability of oil or gas wells, ensuring they are designed, constructed, operated and maintained to prevent leaks, spills or other failures that could pose risks (to human safety, the environment, or the efficient extraction of resources). Promote safer, more reliable well operations with our product site – which gives you access to useful well data from anywhere – so you can generate better insights, mitigate risk and improve your operations.

WorkOps

A term used to describe the intersection of work management and DevOps practices. The Industrial Work Surface is a place for the planning, execution, and monitoring of work operations –for everything from offshore rigs to vessels, wind farms and power grids.

World Class

What we strive towards – in our products, partnerships and innovation. We design, develop and deploy state-of-the-art technology to heavy asset industries worldwide, ensuring world-class solutions and service delivery for our valued customers.

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Your next step

Your next step is to get in touch because we can’t wait to meet you! Visit our website for more information about our solutions and to speak with one of our experts.

Learn from Yesterday

Making world-class tech is all about continuous improvement and demands us to incorporate learnings from our company and our customers every day. We love this term because it reminds us to keep refining our technology based on domain, technical and technological insights from past experiences – both ours and those of our customers.

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Zero Emissions

The dream state we’re striving for, where no harmful pollutants or greenhouse gases are released into the environment as a result of a particular activity, process, or operation.