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The Industrial Work Surface is a unified digital workspace built for heavy-asset industries. It gives your teams a better way to visualise, orchestrate, and automate complex work at scale, enabling more productive, cost-efficient, and reliable operations through a single, intuitive interface. The Industrial Work Surface is one solution for endless opportunities.

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Industry Solution Templates
System of Work
System of Engagement
Data Ops

Industry Solution Templates

Explore new ways of working with our tailor-made industrial solution templates. Unlock your potential with industry-leading solutions designed to help you enhance workflows, take charge of operations, and elevate organisational productivity.

System of Work

The Industrial Work Surface is where people come to make progress, get the job done, and execute business processes in the metaverse. Reimagining work means facilitating end-to-end processes more efficiently. "Work" refers to a broad range of activities involving various processes and actors, including analytics, optimisation, planning, management, and operations.

Execute business processes in the metaverse.
End-to-end work processes.
Analytics, optimisation, planning, management, operations.

System of Engagement

The System of Engagement allows you to interact and collaborate with data, models, and individuals, execute tasks and complete actual work. Its capabilities range from built-in rich collaboration features, advanced contextual and time-based annotations, and adaptive user experiences driven by activity patterns and AI to integrated asset exploration with asset explorer, asset search, query builder, visual filtering, and overlays.

Execute business processes in the metaverse.
Interact with the data, including self-service of advanced cross-domain data exploration, visualisation, annotation, and modification workflows.
Enable users and personas with different needs to be served optimally from the same underlying data.
Standardise asset exploration, information gathering and visualisation for global access.

Data Ops

DataOps

The DataOps capabilities built into the Industrial Work Surface accelerate the realisation of business value by creating predictable delivery and change management of data and data models. DataOps automates the designing, deploying, and managing data delivery with appropriate levels of governance, using metadata and various enrichment and contextualisation methods to enhance the usability and value of data through the highly dynamic and “business real-time” Industrial Work Surface.

Our capabilities include:

Self-Service tools
Contextualisation Engine
Data Modelling, Integration, Quality management

Embrace the future of work with the Industrial Work Surface

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System of work

Facilitate end-to-end work processes – including analytics, optimisation, planning, management, and operations – in a radically more efficient way. With persona management, responsibility-aware application workflows, and self-service work process management, the Industrial Work Surface applies a human-centric approach to your work/operations.

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AI in work

Tap into the power of AI to enhance, improve, and evolve your industrial work processes. By combining AI-powered search with Asset Co-pilot augmentation, you can enable faster and more effective decision-making loops through instant access to information. Leverage generative AI to support and expedite various tasks, including data ingestion and contextualisation.

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Simulation in work

Access real-time, high-fidelity simulations of your process facilities with our cloud-based platform. This enables your industrial teams to quickly identify bottlenecks and opportunities that can help you improve day-to-day operations.

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DataOps

Empower data and analytics teams to seamlessly observe, test, and automate the tools, data, processes, and environments within their entire data analytics organisation. Combine your data products, platforms, and cornerstone systems. Equip your experts with invaluable insights from your data, drive innovation, and maximise operational efficiency.

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WorkOps

Connect, aggregate, and contextualise data from various sources – such as Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems – to create new and more effective workflows. Eliminate the need to switch between multiple siloed expert systems and empower collaboration between multidisciplinary teams. Enable users to create data-driven workflows that connect data, insights, analytics and users. These workflows replace existing processes and manual tools, allowing remote work, remote assistance, and improved collaboration.

Address the significant challenges industrial organisations face

Slow decision-making

Problem-solving and decision-making can be too slow, ineffective, and resource-intensive.

Lack of access to centralised data

There is no single source of truth accessible to stakeholders across the organisation.

Unable to generate valuable insights

Disconnected apps and data make it challenging to generate game-changing ideas.

Too many applications

The average user signs in and out of over seven different systems daily.

Work and data are siloed

Different business areas pursue their own agendas and goals, so work and data become siloed.

Siloed business areas

Work silos prevent people from collaborating as much as they could be.

Maximise business performance and drive more value

Built with our proven technology, the Industrial Work Surface delivers measurable value to organisations competing in energy, utilities & renewables, and maritime sectors.

3 months

Time-to-Value

An asset has a typical digitisation time of 3 months, enabling rapid scaling across the enterprise.

85%

Users are more efficient

With one system to plan, execute and close out work, 85% of users feel more efficient.

20,000

Users worldwide

At-scale delivery of digital twin technology to integrated energy companies.

See why industry leaders are adopting the Industrial Work Surface

Companies like yours use the Industrial Work Surface daily for better decision-making that helps maximise business performance and drive value across the organisation.

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“For me, the strength of Kongsberg Digital’s simulators is the visualisation.”

Andreas Johannesen

Senior Engineer, Ops Process
Equinor

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"Simulators help learners remember things better."

Svein Gunnar A. Haugen

Process Technician, Operations Process
Equinor

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"Crew members had never done this operation live, but I had been training for it on the simulator."

Knut Bolme

Process Engineer and Simulator Instructor
Equinor

Make your industrial vision a reality

Want to help your heavy-asset organisation gain a competitive edge? Contact us to discover how the Industrial Work Surface can help you reach new levels of intelligence and productivity.

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The Human-AI Partnership: How AI High-grades Work and Replaces Repetitive Tasks in Heavy Asset Industries The Human-AI Partnership: How AI High-grades Work and Replaces Repetitive Tasks in Heavy Asset Industries

Let's reframe the discussion around AI replacing human jobs and focus on its power to unlock time for problem-solving and strategy execution.

When opening Kongsberg Digital’s annual tech event, The Tomorrow Show, CEO Shane McArdle asked the audience if they had ever used ChatGPT and every hand went up.
While it's human to wonder whether advanced technology like AI will make your life better or worse, AI isn't new - it's been here a while, and you're likely using it more than you think.

“AI will eliminate the tasks you don’t like doing anyway” –

Shane McArdle

In our world of energy and maritime, AI has joined the industrial transformation journey by revolutionising data analysis and improving the human-technology experience, with digital twins and the Digital Performance Model as driving forces.

McArdle shared some thoughts on AI when he recently sat in on the Tech Exec Talk podcast with Adam Soroka, CEO of Cavendish Group.

“Machine learning and AI will eliminate those tasks you don’t like doing anyway—for example, searching for information or looking for a specific word inside a PowerPoint. AI will automate tasks, not remove jobs—that’s where I see the short to midterm with AI”

Humans at the center of technology

Did you know that decision effectiveness drives 95 percent of company performance?

When Pascal Bornet, the award-winning expert in AI and automation, entered the stage at The Tomorrow Show, he explored how to determine which decisions should be supported, augmented, or automated by AI.

But what does this mean, and how can AI enhance decision-making for professionals in the energy and maritime sectors?

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Example: Supported decision

AI can support the decision-maker by forecasting data-based scenarios, but humans must integrate long-term goals and community impacts, relying on critical thinking and emotional intelligence.

Example: Augmented decision

AI predicts failures and recommends maintenance schedules, with human engineers prioritising tasks based on strategic objectives.

Example: Automated decision

AI can monitor emissions data from power plants, automating a repetitive task that would otherwise require constant human attention. This category includes skills that machines can easily replicate, enhancing the quality of human roles.

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User-friendly solutions drive adoption

When discussing technology adoption, it's common to categorise users into Early Adopters, Fast Followers, and Laggards. McArdle highlights the critical role of user-friendly and intuitive technology in driving user adoption and satisfaction.

“Where we see it really taking off, is when the technology is easy to use. That “Every day, I am super excited to open up the digital twin; I want to do my work there” or “This is the only tool I use to search for information in documents”. That, for us, is super important. You must make technology fun and enjoyable, limiting tasks for people”. ‍

An example of AI in action

Typically, when using a digital twin to search for a phrase or ask a question about a tag, the twin will not return an answer. This is exactly what AI can solve. With the Industrial Work Surface, users can now use technology built on large language models (LLM) and generative AI through an easy-to-use digital interface that connects with asset and operational data.

AI is a valuable tool in heavy asset industries, automating repetitive tasks and improving decision-making efficiency. However, human expertise remains vital. Let’s embrace AI as a powerful partner, enabling companies to concentrate on high-value activities like problem-solving and strategic execution toward greater performance and profitability.

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