EMBRACING A DIGITAL-FIRST CULTURE

Change management was an important consideration during the adoption of InEight at CS Energy. People who were accustomed to the flexibility of creating their own spreadsheets had to adapt to working in a uniform way in InEight.

As Wes Horwood explains: “When you’re using Excel and Outlook, it’s quick, it's easy, it's done. But the problem is that your Excel sheet doesn’t look the same as my sheet, which is different again from the other fellow’s sheet. We now have the mantra: ‘If it's not in InEight, it doesn’t exist.’ I can look at dashboards on my iPad and it’s the same information that everybody else is looking at – that's really helpful.”

The InEight solutions at CS Energy form part of a wider business transformation journey that includes 3D digital models, which will improve the ability to visualize projects in new ways. CS Energy is actively upskilling its own workforce to transition to a digital engineering approach, moving from Building Information Modeling (BIM) level zero to level two for the current greenfield projects. InEight will play a significant role in maximizing the benefits of streamlined workflows.

“We want to work smarter, not harder,” concludes Wes Horwood. “After we move to BIM level two, we may go down the path of building digital twins of our energy assets. Global research suggests that going digital can unlock between 5 and 15% cost savings, and InEight forms an essential part of our business transformation strategy to benefit from those savings.”