INDUSTRY 4.0
36 ing all this normalised data – through dashboards , artificial intelligence , and automation .
When you consider all the parties working on a project , you also need to think about accountability . We ’ re tracking all the changes – everything that happens – throughout a project or throughout an entire asset lifecycle and maintaining it for as long as is needed . At Bentley , we like to draw on the analogy of a bank account . Imagine you logged into your bank account and the only information you had was the balance , with no clue how you got to that balance . Could you possibly trust it ? iModelHub has a change ledger – a timeline of change that captures everything . You can roll it back in time to see how you got to where you are , and you ’ ll be able to roll it forward in time with our recent SYNCHRO acquisition . Through 4D plans and schedules , you can roll forward into what you ’ re planning to do as well , which is amazing .
Ultimately , digital twins are going to transform the design and management of infrastructure and enable us to achieve more sustainable development for generations . That ’ s the
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