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The systems you already run:
- EAM / CMMS
- SCADA, OT & IoT sensors
- ERP transactions
- BIM & GIS engineering models
- System event logs
Two twins, one operation
A twin is simply a living, data-fed model of something real — current enough to trust and detailed enough to test decisions against. The process twin shows how your work actually flows — rebuilt continuously from the systems you already run. The digital twin of the asset shows the physical thing — its condition, configuration and history — current enough to trust for capital, maintenance and risk decisions before money is committed.
Don't take our word for it — drive it.
An interactive demonstration of asset-value thinking — condition, risk and intervention trade-offs you can play with.
VCG Advisory built an advanced Digital Twin for Sunwater, enabling real-time monitoring and predictive management of Queensland’s water infrastructure. Integrating BIM, GIS, and SAP S/4HANA, the solution delivers powerful analytics, optimised asset performance, and improved customer experience. The platform provides stakeholders with a unified, data-driven view — turning operational insights into actionable decisions.
The asset operating model stream
The operating model for long-lived assets — and the intelligence to optimise their performance, risk and capital across the whole lifecycle.
The problem we solve
Asset-intensive organisations carry enormous value on the balance sheet and enormous risk in the field — yet capital and maintenance decisions are too often made on incomplete information, fragmented systems and gut feel. We build the operating model, the maturity and the digital intelligence to make those decisions with evidence.
What this service covers
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Asset operating model & ISO 55000 alignment
Design the policies, strategy (SAMP), processes, roles and information flows that an effective asset management system needs — aligned to ISO 55000/55001/55002. Connect strategic asset management planning to day-to-day operational reality.
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Asset management maturity assessment
Benchmark current capability against the IAM Maturity Scale and the GFMAM 39 Subjects, identify the gaps that matter most, and build a sequenced improvement roadmap that is fundable and defensible.
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Lifecycle cost, criticality & RCM
Bring rigour to capital and maintenance decisions: lifecycle cost and NPV analysis, asset criticality assessment, and reliability-centred maintenance strategy — so spend follows risk and value, not habit.
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Digital Twin & asset intelligence
Build living models that simulate scenarios, test interventions and optimise asset performance before capital is committed — from BIM-anchored asset information through to real-time operational twins, governed by the CDBB Gemini Principles.
Explore the asset demo live →Twins that mirror the real thing
We design digital twins that mirror real-world processes and systems — not theoretical models. By combining operational data, process intelligence and simulation, a twin lets you test scenarios, evaluate trade-offs and predict outcomes before committing to change. Risk goes down; decision quality goes up.
- Predictive insight into operations — see problems forming before they surface in the monthly report.
- Risk-free scenario testing — trial maintenance strategies, investments and operating changes on the twin first.
- Improved asset and process performance — decisions tuned against real behaviour, not assumptions.
- Better planning and investment decisions — trade-offs evaluated with evidence before capital is committed.
Proof
For a major defence estate with a $65B+ asset portfolio and $4.5B+ annual operating budget, we led the digital transformation of the enterprise business processes underpinning asset and estate management — using process mining to diagnose value leakage and a digital twin anchored to a unified operating model, value framework and performance dashboards.
The twin is the AI substrate.
AI recommendations about assets are only as good as the model of the assets they reason over. A current, data-fed twin gives AI the context it needs — and gives you a way to test its recommendations before you act on them.
The twin technology stream
Twins, asset data engineering and EAM/OT — the asset picture current enough to trust.
What sits underneath
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Asset data engineering
The unglamorous half of every twin: condition, configuration and history engineered into data current enough to trust — so the model reflects the asset, not the backlog of unentered work.
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EAM / OT
The systems of record the twin feeds from — IBM Maximo, IFS, Hexagon, SAP PM — connected to the operational picture so maintenance, capital and risk read from the same truth.
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Twin platforms
Bentley iTwin, AVEVA, Azure Digital Twins and Esri — BIM-anchored asset information through to real-time operational twins, governed by the CDBB Gemini Principles.
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Decisions it changes
Interventions tested before capital is committed, maintenance targeted by condition and criticality, and a defensible line from asset data to the capital case.
Our accelerator: the Asset Management Digital Twin (AMDT) with QDIS diagnostics
We bring a build accelerator to every asset-twin engagement. AMDT creates a living digital twin of physical assets by integrating SAP asset and maintenance modules, IoT and operational telemetry, predictive AI models, and process mining across maintenance workflows; QDIS adds diagnostic intelligence, anomaly detection and performance optimisation on top.
- Reduced unplanned downtime
- Improved reliability and lifecycle performance
- Predictive work-order optimisation
- Faster root-cause identification
- Improved compliance reporting
- Increased return on capital assets
The result is a performance control tower — from reactive operations to intelligent resilience. Advisory shapes and assures the engagement; VCG Digital builds and enables the accelerator.
BIM and public-infrastructure policy compliance → See how process mining works — live demo →Client outcomes with this instrument
- Sunwater — advanced digital twin for Queensland water infrastructure
- State transport — digital twin strategy & MVP (Sydney Rail)
- Parks Victoria — digital engineering strategy, ISO 55001 / ISO 19650
- Fonterra — twin-driven sustainability across manufacturing sites
- Commonwealth — whole-of-nation digital twin concept