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It’s Personal: Apollo Protocol – The Human Capital Hack

Here’s a summary of some of the outcomes of our fourth Apollo Protocol Hack and information about what comes next. We’re at the end of our 4-month, 8-event marathon and, to be honest, a bit tired! The team has been overwhelmed by the volume of interest from across the built environment, manufacturing and tech sectors in our Apollo Forum hacks. It's time to take stock, review the huge amount of learning and start the next stage of our journey. But first, let’s look back on the Human Capital Hack and what we learned. Why have we been hosting Hack Events? Over the last four months the Apollo Protocol have hosted eight in person and online Hack events exploring four different themes relating to cross sectoral digital twins and information management. These Hacks formally launched the Apollo…

Su Butcher in Asset Management
Trusted Data is Key: Apollo Protocol – The Circularity Hack

Here’s a summary of some of the outcomes of our third Apollo Protocol Hack and information about how you can join the next one. We’re three hacks in, three themes explored. What strikes me most about attending and participating in these interactive events is how much we need to learn from each other. When we fleshed out each theme in the Apollo Protocol white paper last year, we knew that there were opportunities for learning, but we’ve learned so much more about the value of cross-sector understanding of the major challenges facing manufacturing and the built environment today. By bringing together professionals with a keen interest in a theme, the practitioners working on the coal face and tech specialists who understand the value of data, we benefit from a deep and revelatory understanding…

Su Butcher in Asset Management
Apollo Protocol: The Human Capital Hack - join us to investigate digital skills in manufacturing and the built environment

We've now reached the final of four hack events organised by the Apollo Protocol for manufacturing, built environment and tech professionals to explore the four key themes outlined in our White Paper, The Apollo Protocol: Unifying Digital Twins Across Sectors. This one is about digital skills and how we manage human capital. We are inviting business leaders from manufacturing and the built environment, including engineers to join us to answer these questions: How can you become better informed about digital requirements for the future? How can you get your staff educated to enable them to participate in a future digitised company? How are you going to get in people with digital skills to help your company digitise? What digital skills will you need? A re you concerned about…

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Performance in the Built Environment: Apollo Protocol – The Performance Hack

Here’s a summary of some of the outcomes of our second Apollo Protocol Hack and information about how you can join the next one. As we gathered at the AMTC for the in-person hack day, it was perhaps ironic that a digital twin helped us get there. Snow had caused major disruption overnight, and without the near real-time evidence provided by Google Maps’ live traffic feature, many of our delegates would not have had the confidence to set out to join us. As it turned out, we still had healthy numbers, further boosted by attendance at the online hack three days later. Google Maps’ live traffic feature is a digital twin. Source: Hertfordshire Highways 12 December 2022 The Performance Theme Performance is evaluating whether what we intended to happen, is happening. This theme is so…

Su Butcher in Functional Safety
Value is a Network: Apollo Protocol - The Value Hack

Here’s a summary of some of the outcomes of our first Apollo Protocol Hack and information about how you can join the next one. Why are we talking about Value? Aligning the Value Chain is the first theme that The Apollo Forum discussed. All our activities as professionals are linked to the value we place in them, and to create any change in our activities we must address value as a core factor. Companies provide value that is seen in discrete parts and locked-up between processes. However, reducing the scope of value into these small segments inhibits our ability to articulate value generated across organisations and supply chains. In The Apollo Protocol White Paper, we set out the challenge of identifying a single value chain of data and information management. Both manufacturing…

Su Butcher in Functional Safety
Register now for The Apollo Protocol: The Value Hack (Sheffield, UK or Online)

There's still time to join us at The Value Hack at AMRC's Factory2050 in Sheffield on Thursday. It's a must-attend if you want to explore the value of extending digital twin capabilities into the built environment. Not sure what a digital twin is? Might be the time to find out - read more below: REGISTER NOW https://bit.ly/ApolloProtocolValueHackSheffield The way manufacturing and the built environment approach value is different. This first Hack event will identify use cases for data and information management across the sectors, in order to explore how blockages in value transfer can be overcome. Who should attend? We are seeking a diverse audience from across the manufacturing, construction, property and built environment sectors, including but not limited to: Technical or…

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Cross Sector Digital Twins: Apollo Forum: The Value Hack – how to join us

Following the successful launch of the Apollo Protocol white paper last week and the announcement of an Innovate UK funded launch of the Apollo Forum, we are delighted to announce that registration for The Value Hack is now open. Please read more below about the event and why you should attend. You can watch the live launch and announcement here . A Single Value Chain Asset owners, manufacturers and others interested in overcoming barriers to cross-sector collaboration in digital twins and information management are invited to participate in a series of ‘Hacks’ across the country, starting on 17th November at AMRC’s Factory 2050 in Sheffield. Each of the Hacks will follow one of the four themes; the first one, The Value Hack will focus on aligning the value chain. The way manufacturing…

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Next steps for Apollo Protocol to be revealed at Live Launch Event

The team behind The Apollo Protocol white paper, which calls for a common language across digital twins, are to reveal details of how they will begin to set up The Apollo Forum at a live streamed launch event on 25 October from 3.30pm. Since its launch last month, The Apollo Protocol has attracted critical acclaim and enthusiasm from the digital twin community in manufacturing, construction and the built environment, and the technology sector. Downloads of the white paper proposing the cross-sector approach to digital twins have exceeded expectations, and a Network for participants has been set up on the Digital Twin Hub. At a live launch later this month, the team behind the initiative will reveal details of how the Apollo Forum will begin its work. Currently, the manufacturing and built…

Su Butcher in Functional Safety
IET Built Environment Panel celebrates its projects at UK Construction Week

To celebrate the work of the IET’s Built Environment Panel a session on the UK Construction Week main stage last week looked at how bring together disparate voices can help enable change. Chaired by Su Butcher of Just Practising Limited, the session included Patricia Massey, BEAMA’s Digital and Technology Manager, alongside Paul Surin of IBM, Neil Thompson of the Construction Leadership Council (and chair of the Built Environment Panel) and Geoffrey Brown of the UK Government’s Office for Product Safety and Standards who are forming the new construction product regulator. The aim of the IET’s expert panels is to bring together different voices across engineering and beyond, to explore ideas and solutions and share these with the industry and with government, supporting their work and…

Su Butcher in Functional Safety

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