Chartered & Registered Professional Engineer with extensive multidisciplinary experience and leadership in high hazard industries coupled with Internationally recognised professional skill set. I turn numbers into value.
Predicting, and optimising asset performance (in either the design or operate phase), requires an intimate understanding of operational variables, their associated causes, and holistic understanding of consequences. 41 years ago this month, a 12m class yacht (Australia II) won the America’s Cup, with a revolutionary “winged” keel being a key factor in its winning. The winged keel design reduced tip vortex, a turbulence experienced in conventional keels from the pressure differential between the windward (low pressure) and leeward (high pressure) sides. The acknowledged designer of the winged keel, Ben Lexcen, having left school at 14, essentially learned skills such as hydrodynamics “on the job” through observing and optimising operational variables. He often remarked that Australia II is a “whole boat, not just a keel”. Modern aviation now uses “winglets” in a similar fashion! So, lesson for optimising asset performance – digitalisation provides some insight, however the real benefits stem from reconnecting people with equipment performance and the valuing of performance intimacy. https://lnkd.in/eq38pfXr
Great point about Digitilisation benefits. The story of Australia 2 resonates with me, as I got to see it as a 9-year old in Perth WA, soon after the historic win. I remember it was a very big deal for Australians and Perth in particular. Something that connects Digitisation and Australia 2 was that way back in 1982 CFD techniques were used to develop it.