Digital Enablement Framework
The structural base for scalable industrial digitalization
Industrial companies want to scale digitalization and AI, but are often held back by fragmented data, inconsistent engineering structures, and solutions that don’t connect across the asset lifecycle. Many initiatives stall after pilots because the underlying digital foundation is not built for scale.
The Digital Enablement Framework addresses this challenge by providing a structured, standards based foundation for industrial digitalization. It is designed for asset intensive industries with complex production environments that need reliable, secure, and lifecycle consistent data to enable digital twins, advanced automation, operations intelligence, and AI at scale.
Rather than adding another platform or tool, the framework helps organizations establish a future proof digital structure that reduces rework, improves decision making, and enables sustainable performance improvements across design, construction, operations, and modernization.
The Digital Enablement Framework is AFRY’s structured, standards‑based approach for preparing industrial companies to scale digitalization, including AI, across the full asset lifecycle. Rather than a product or software platform, it is a set of philosophies, standards, practices, and guidelines, applied through AFRY’s consultancy and advisory services. It provides the modular building blocks required to establish a robust, future‑proof digital ecosystem for organizations with industrial production and manufacturing plants.
Key benefits:
This unified foundation enables scalable use of digital twins, connected completion, remote operations, operations intelligence, and advanced automation and control. It reduces lifecycle friction, strengthens decision‑making, improves data quality, and creates reliable continuity across disciplines and phases.
At its heart, the Digital Enablement Framework strengthens the very purpose of digitalization: enabling industrial operations to perform at higher speed, with greater profitability, improved sustainability, reduced environmental impact, enhanced safety and security, and consistently superior quality. By establishing a solid, standards‑driven structural base, the framework makes these improvements achievable in a reliable, repeatable, and scalable way across the entire plant lifecycle.
Key features:
The Framework is delivered through consultancy engagements tailored to industry and maturity. AFRY typically follows four phases:
- Discovery
- Pilot
- Scale
- Activation of Digital Use Cases.
Each phase emphasizes lifecycle continuity, reduction of rework, and long‑term sustainability.
Utilizing internationally recognized standards such as ISO 19650, ISO 15926, IEC/ISO 81346, IEC 62832, and IEC 62443, the framework ensures that information is consistent, traceable, secure, and machine‑understandable across design, construction, commissioning, operations, maintenance, and modification. It unifies engineering structures, lifecycle information, intelligent diagrams, vendor data, knowledge graphs, and contextualized data and signals from sensors, control systems, and IoT devices into a coherent Structured Digital Plant Model and Single Source of Truth.
- Provides a scalable foundation for digitalization by structuring fragmented industrial data into contextualized, lifecycle‑aware, and operationally meaningful datasets
- Enables industrial plants to operate faster, more profitably, more sustainably, safely, securely, and with higher quality
- Combines AFRY’s engineering heritage with digital expertise to apply the framework pragmatically and at scale
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