Breaking down data silos: Enriching your digital twin with connected asset intelligence

Posted: September 08, 2025

In today’s industrial landscape, digital transformation is creating more data than ever. While data volume is exploding, much of that data remains disconnected, locked in silos across departments, formats, and systems. This fragmentation makes it difficult to gain a complete view of your assets, leading to inefficiencies, costly rework, and poor decision-making. Data is a powerful tool, but to harness that power, you must break down data silos into a single, trusted source of information. With AVEVA™ Asset Information Management (AIM), it’s possible.

The foundation of a smart digital twin

AVEVA AIM lays the groundwork for a successful digital twin strategy by harmonizing asset data, such as documents, 3D models, tag data, or laser scans, across engineering and maintenance, all into one common data hub. This centralized, contextualized repository enables teams to access the right information at the right time, supporting better collaboration and faster, more confident decisions.

Built on standards, ready to scale

To ensure data quality and reliability, AIM supports global information standards. With these standards baked in, organizations can assess and trust their data, ensuring it’s consistent, complete, and compliant from design through to operations. Its open, neutral architecture makes it easy to integrate with third-party systems, partners, and analytics platforms so you can scale with your digital transformation journey.

Visualize everything, all in one place

With AIM data accessible in CONNECT, AVEVA’s cloud-based industrial intelligence platform, users can visualize interactive 3D models, P&IDs, drawings, and even real-time data from AVEVA™ PI System™—all in a single view. This powerful visualization unlocks industrial intelligence, bridging the gap between the physical and digital world and enabling operations, maintenance, and engineering teams to collaborate on the same contextualized dataset.

Driving business outcomes across the lifecycle

Whether you're building a greenfield facility or modernizing a brownfield site, AIM delivers tangible results across every phase of the asset lifecycle:

• Capital projects: Stay on time and on budget with continuous handover planning
  • Maire Tecnimont achieved a 20% cost savings by adopting an information management approach from the beginning of their project.
     
• Handover: Seamlessly transfer digital twin data into operations for faster readiness
  • Roslagsvatten achieved a 40% reduction in handover costs.
     
• Steady-state operations: Enable proactive maintenance and reliability with a full view of operational and maintenance data
  • PETRONAS improved engineering and operational data preparation, data loading, and data contextualization time by 30%.
     
• Brownfield modernization: Overlay point-cloud scans onto existing models to close documentation gaps and accelerate digital twin creation
  • Bruce Power improved walkdown efficiency by 30% and saved 1,000 hours in data retrieval.

Proven results in the field

Roslagsvatten used AVEVA Asset Information Management to digitalize its water and wastewater operations and anchor its OT and IT ecosystem, reducing handover costs by 40%, improving efficiency, enhancing asset management, enabling faster upgrades, and creating a future-ready, flexible system.  McDermott, meanwhile, leveraged AIM to connect its asset data to streamline project execution and improve product quality, realizing €15 million in savings. Rob Kennedy, Global Leader of Digital Twin Service Offerings at Wood, notes, “AVEVA Asset Information Management is a key solution to building a digital twin…It brings together data from all different systems, integrated and contextualized.”

Are you ready to break down data silos, enrich your digital twin, and unlock actionable insights with AVEVA AIM and CONNECT?