Overview - Digital Transformations (DT) continue to change our products, systems, services, and the way we work. Will we be ready for this future? To tackle the challenges we will present the "A to Z" guide for DT, including the digitalisation of SE practices.
Context - In a global context, we will be moving towards model-based approaches, knowledge sharing will be exponentially increasing, digital technologies such as AI, autonomy and digital twinning will be incorporated into the various engineering disciplines as they better evolve to adjust to a dynamic world with increasing complexity. Collaborations and interactions will be paramount, largely through the management of the digital thread, enabled through the tools and environments of the digital ecosystem. To do this, the enterprise workforce will need to be diverse, agile, efficient, possibly distributed, and more strongly recognise knowledge as an asset. This level of transformation can be confusing, difficult to identify and even harder to implement.
Purpose - To navigate a DT, guidance is required from behaviour adoption, technology evolutions, to new/tailored practices and tools, balancing the need to change with the constraints of the enterprise. This guidance must be tailorable to apply to different system projects.
Approach - A combination of workshops, and industry experience across multiple domains and countries with real life examples are used to illustrate this topic. Many of the guidance points will resonate with participants whether in industry, academia or government, as we all undertake a DT at some level in our enterprises.
Insights - The takeaways for participants are 1) understanding of what is involved in a DT; 2) A to Z guide on DT, that is completely tailorable, to add to an engineer's toolkit; 3) mapping examples of the guide to 30 common SE practices.