Digitalization Moves Forward in Pharma Equipment and Processes

Digital technologies that could meet these new challenges and aid manufacturing scale-up and speed to market, such as automated digital data collection and augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) remote collaboration tools, were already available and had been adopted by some, but the new demand spurred greater adoption. "There is a cultural aspect to digitalization because it's a significant investment that results in changes to the operational structure of a facility;it is beneficial when the digitalization comes from the top," explains Yvonne Duckworth, automation engineer and Industry 4.0 subject matter expert at the CRB Group, a life sciences engineering and construction company. Machine sensors and process analytical technology (PAT) instruments can communicate directly with data collection systems using the NoT. Efficient development and tech transfer for mRNA vaccine manufacturing The data analysis and clear communication allowed by digital tools has demonstrated its benefits for process development and technical transfer, making time to market faster.

Engineering in a Crisis: Observing Students' Perceptions of Macroethical Responsibilities during Pandemics and Natural Disasters

When the ethical responsibilities of engineers are discussed in classrooms, the focus is usually on microethics, which concentrates on individual decision-making, rather than macroethics, that addresses broad societal concerns. Pandemics (e.g., COVID-19) and natural disasters (e.g., hurricanes, derechos) have presented unique opportunities to observe engineering macroethical responsibilities, because unjust social, economic, and environmental systems have been brought to the forefront amidst the responses (e.g., inequitable transportation access). In this paper, we consider pandemics and natural disasters through the lens of engineering macroethics, aiming to understand students' perceptions about the macroethical responsibilities of engineers. In the fall of 2020, we deployed a survey to undergraduate engineering students at two universities (n=424). Students were asked to discuss what they perceived to be the role of engineering professionals in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters. We used a qualitative content analysis to explore the macroethical responsibilities mentioned in students' responses. Many of these responses include considerations of infrastructure resilience, resource distribution, and community equity. Logit models were used to identify which sociodemographic factors were associated with responses that included macroethical responsibilities, revealing engineering major (specifically, civil engineering), employment status, gender identity, and family size, among others as significant factors. The implications from this study include recommendations on curricular content, and identifying which student sociodemographic groups would especially benefit from macroethical content in coursework. © 2023 American Society of Civil Engineers.

Soft Skills of Latin American Engineering Professors: Gender Gap

The importance of soft skills in the professional work of an engineer is becoming increasingly important, even more so since the emergence of Covid-19 boosted the digitization of all professional sectors. In order for future engineers to acquire this type of skills, it is necessary for engineering professors to have an optimal level of technical and transversal skills. This article analyzes the assessment made by a group of engineering professors about their degree of development of soft skills and describes gender gaps in these assessments. Based on a self-created survey to evaluate different families of soft skills relevant to engineering education, a sample of 284 Latin American engineering professors reported: 1) high evaluations of their soft skills and 2) the existence of gender gaps in the families of work behavior and social skills in favor of females. This gap is especially wide among participants younger than 45 and older than 65 in the social skills family. In addition, females also rate their work motivation skills higher, except in the 55–64 age range.

An Approach of Skill-Based Education for Industry-Ready Electrical Engineers: Power Electronics Course as A Case Study

Recently, and particularly after the Covid19 pandemic period and during teaching different courses, it has been noticed that most of the undergraduate engineering students have rising the type of questions such as ''Why we are learning this particular course?'' and ''What are the main benefits and direct impacts of such course on our future carrier? Also as a direct impact of the new available job requirements, it becomes most importance to prepare future engineers to thrive in recent dynamic changing in employment landscape. Hence for students who want to compete and involved in promising working opportunities, it is important to bridging the gap between teaching courses and the industry requirements by focusing on the concept of ''Industry Ready Engineers Since most of recent jobs concentrate on specific required competencies, the author believes that it is important now to give more focusing on the skill-based learning methodology. This paper introduces an approach focusing on group categorization for the recent specific required skills of electrical engineers;then how to involve these skills in specific teaching courses. The main objectives of such approach is to intentionally improve such group skills (one by one) throughout the all program courses in order to introduce a final graduated engineer with great working readiness skills. The approach is validated and evaluated on teaching the power electronics course 1 as a case study. © 2023 IEEE.

Co-designing with engineers for community engagement in rural Uganda

Co-design is seen as crucial for designing solutions for resource-constrained people living in developing countries. To best understand their needs, user engagement and co-design strategies need to first be developed. In this Design Practice Brief, a process of co-design was created and used to understand ways telecommunication engineers could engage with rural communities in Uganda. It reports and reflects on (i) the experience of co-designing with nondesigners and (ii) creating a co-design structure and developing co-design methods of engaging with community members living in developing countries. In doing so, it offers a format and case study for future practitioners facilitating and conducting co-design with nondesigners and contributes to a knowledge gap in the reporting and reflection of co-design practice. This case study is unique as the co-design practice was achieved remotely (online), crossed disciplines (designers and telecommunication engineers) and cultural boundaries (European and African). It finds that in co-designing with nondesigners, preparation and structure are key, with acknowledgement and management of cultural and discipline differences.

Replacing Exams with Project-Based Assessment: Analysis of Students' Performance and Experience

This study seeks to investigate whether project-based assignments can lead to better student performance and learning experience compared to traditional examinations. In an engineering course of soil mechanics, the traditional mid-semester and final exams were replaced by project work which was related to a real-life site investigation. Student performance was evaluated on the basis of student marks whilst student feedback was analysed to understand student experience with project-based assignments. The results indicated that the student average mark for the projects was greater than the average mark for the exams. In addition, their learning experience improved after the exams were replaced with the project-based assignments because students were able to see practical applications of the course content. However, a few issues, including feedback to students delivered at the end of the term, increased teacher's workload, and the effect of COVID were also identified.

Teaching Geology in Higher Education Institutions under COVID-19 Conditions

Teaching geology under COVID-19 pandemic conditions led to teaching limitations for educators and learning difficulties for students. The lockdown obstructed face-to-face teaching, laboratory work, and fieldtrips. To minimize the impact of this situation, new distance learning teaching methods and tools were developed. The current study presents the results of an empirical study, where distance learning teaching tools were constructed and used to teach geology to university students. A mineralogical mobile phone application was used to replace laboratory mineral identification and a flow chart to replace laboratory rock identification. Additionally, exercises on faults and maps were developed to fill the gap that was created as field work was impossible. A university course on geology was designed on the basis of the constructed distance learning teaching tools, and more than 100 students from the Department of Civil Engineering attended the course. The results show that the proposed tools helped the students to considerably understand scientific information on geology and supported the learning outcomes. Thus, it is suggested that the teaching tools, constructed for the purposes of the study, could be used in conditions when distance learning is required, or even under typical learning conditions after laboratories, as well as before or after fieldtrips, for better learning outcomes.

Facial Affect Recognition in Depression Using Human Avatars

This research assesses facial emotion recognition in depressed patients using a novel dynamic virtual face (DVF) collection. The participant sample comprised 54 stable depressed patients against 54 healthy controls. The experiment entailed a non-immersive virtual reality task of recognizing emotions with DVFs representing the six basic emotions. Depressed patients exhibited a deficit in facial affect recognition in comparison to healthy controls. The average recognition score for healthy controls was 88.19%, while the score was 75.17% for the depression group. Gender and educational level showed no influence on the recognition rates in depressed patients. As for age, the worst results were found in older patients as compared to other cohorts. The average recognition rate for the younger group was 84.18%, 78.63% for the middle-aged group, and 61.97% for the older group, with average reaction times of 4.00 s, 4.07 s, and 6.04 s, respectively.

Potential impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the future of travel demand

The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically cut the amount people travel, with possible long-term effects on demand. Greg Marsden of the University of Leeds says civil engineers need to reconsider how they plan future transport infrastructure accordingly.

Educational Technologists during the COVID 19 pandemic: Recommendations for the post-pandemic Latin American University

During 2020, in the context of the health emergency caused by COVID19, Universidad de la República (Udelar) already had installed capacities (human and technological) that allowed it to continue teaching activities uninterruptedly. This was possible thanks to different factors that gave continuity to the educational processes of that year: the consolidation of the Virtual Learning Environments (VLE), as widely used spaces throughout the educational community, the deployment of highly trained human resources in charge of the VLE in each educational technology service and a basic technological infrastructure. This article tries to give an account of the state of the human resources associated with the educational technology services, its main characteristics. In addition, an approach to what has been the development of their tasks in the context of a health emergency is presented. A mixed methods study was carried out during the second semester of 2020 and first semester of 2021. The results obtained show a consolidation of the educational technologists role in the university. A greater visibility of the tasks they perform due to the increase in demand by the educational community caused by the Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) was highlighted. However, no significant increases have been made in the assigned workloads or in new hires to enable a greater response from the educational technology services around the digital education activities during COVID 19 ERT. Analysis and recommendations on educational, organizational and technological dimensions can be extended to other Latin American universities to face the challenge of post-pandemic digital education. © 2022 IEEE.

A Virtual Reality Lab for Automotive Service Specialists: A Knowledge Transfer System in the Digital Age

Under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an accelerated transition from the traditional form of knowledge transfer to online learning. Our study of 344 automotive students showed that the success of this transition depends on the readiness to introduce special digital tools for organizing knowledge and conducting practical forms of classes. In this regard, a modern digital form of organizing and transferring knowledge to automotive service engineers in the form of virtual laboratories was developed and presented in the article. The work scenarios, functionality, and minimum technical requirements of virtual laboratories as software systems are described and reviewed in the paper. The rationale for the effectiveness of the application, based on the results of using 109 university students in training practice, is presented as a result of the research. An analysis of the distributions of the student survey results and their training progress revealed differences at the p = 0.05 significance level. This confirmed the hypothesis that the use of methods for teaching engineers special disciplines and language skills using VR technologies is much more effective than the traditional one. An increase in students' interest in learning was revealed, and their performance improved markedly. This proves that the immersive nature of VR technology makes it possible to better assimilate the studied material, increase the level of motivation of future car service specialists, and also allow the organization of the transfer of knowledge online. The very process of knowledge transfer becomes the point of acquiring new digital competencies necessary for high-tech industries. © 2023 by the authors.

IN THE Wake

ASQ survey shows how job seekers, employers alike leverage online tools and new credentials to navigate a sometimes-choppy, challenging job market created by COVID-19 Maybe you're a quality professional wondering whether your career is all it can be. To learn more about those effects, ASQ sent out a pulse survey to 7,400 members in March to reach below the surface and take a closer look into how this historic phenomenon is affecting hiring practices and career development in the quality arena. [...]the infographic, "The Next Wave" (pp. 20-21), highlights the valuable ASQ resources that can help improve your abilities and credentials, buoying your chances for a successful job search or promotion. An estimate from late March had 44% of U.S. citizens currently seeking a new position.1 The pulse survey suggests, however, that the wave of resignations may not be slamming the quality profession as hard as it has hit other parts of the economy.

Tolerance limits for mixture-of-normal distributions with application to COVID-19 data

Tolerance intervals (TIs) are widely used in various applications including manufacturing engineers, clinical research, and pharmaceutical industries. TIs can be used to construct limits of control charts for monitoring quality characteristics. For manufacturing processes where multiple factors may contribute to defects or multiple-stream processes, a mixture distribution of several suitable probabilistic models may be a better choice than a simple distribution for modeling the data. TIs for the normal mixture distribution have been studied in the literature. This article reviews the TIs of the normal mixture distribution, the applications of the mixture distribution, and the control charts of the mixture distribution. A rule for constructing modified two-sided TIs of the normal mixture distribution is summarized, and this rule may be extended to construct modified two-sided TIs for general mixture distributions. The feasibility of using TIs to build control charts for mixture distributions is also discussed. A real data example of coronavirus disease 2019 is used to illustrate the method by linking the TI to control charts. This article is categorized under: Statistical Learning and Exploratory Methods of the Data Sciences > Clustering and Classification. © 2023 Wiley Periodicals LLC.

PREFACE

This publication consists of the peer-reviewed papers from the National Conference on Science, Engineering and Technology (NCSET 2020), which was organized by the School of Electrical Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai during the period from May 11-12, 2020. However, due to the COVID 19 pandemic the conference was held Online. The main objective of NCSET 2020 is to provide an opportunity for our research scholars to exchange their research outputs and innovative ideas in different domains of Science, Engineering and Technology, ably guided by our faculty members. This proceeding will include presentations on the niche research areas in the above disciplines.The inaugural session of the conference had the felicitation address by Dr.V.S.Kanchana Bhaaskaran, Pro-Vice Chancellor, VIT Chennai. The conference was inaugurated virtually through the zoom platform on May 11, 2020 by the Chief Guest of the event Mr.Balaji Selvaraju, Founder and Managing director Prominds Global Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Hyderabad. The chief guest elaborated in detail on the long term skills to be acquired by post graduate engineers and research scholars especially under the prevailing Covid 19 pandemic situations. The conference had two keynote Speakers. The first keynote address was delivered by Mr.Karnam Sathiskumar, Managing Director, Engineering Par Formulations, Chennai. He shared about his experiences at VIT Vellore as an undergraduate student of Mechanical Engineering. The second keynote speech was by Mr.V.K.Arunshankar, who is a Trainee Engineer at Danfoss Electric Drives Division, Orgadam Chennai.This year NCSET 2020, had more than 175 participants from VIT Chennai. A total of 171 research articles were submitted and based on the double-blind peer review process 75 full length papers were accepted to be published with Journal of Physics IOP Conference Series. The evaluation of all the papers was performed based on the reports from anonymous reviewers.We would like to take this opportunity to deeply express our heartfelt appreciation to Dr. G. Viswanathan, Founder and Chancellor, Vellore Institute of Technology;Dr. Sekar Viswanathan, Vice President, Vellore Institute of Technology Chennai Campus;Dr. Sandhya Pentareddy, Executive Director, Vellore Institute of Technology Chennai Campus;Dr. Anand A. Samuel, Vice Chancellor, Vellore Institute of Technology;Dr. V. S. Kanchana Bhaaskaran, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Vellore Institute of Technology Chennai Campus;Dr.A.Peer Fathima, Professor and Dean, School of Electrical Engineering;Our special thanks to all our Keynote Speakers, Session Chairs, all the Committee Members and Reviewers involved in the technical evaluation of conference papers.VIRTUAL DISCLAIMER FOR NCSET 2020:• As it was uncertain about when COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions across the globe would end, the conference was conducted in virtual mode considering the safety of the participants.• The conference was not postponed to a later period because the scientific community cannot share their research findings and there would have been a delay in publishing their research work.• The virtual conference was organized by Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai during May 11& 12, 2020 using video conferencing platforms like Microsoft Teams and Zoom.• The conference had 2 keynote speakers;each delivered their talk related to the theme of the conference.• The School of Computer Science and Engineering had a total of 22 Tracks, School of Mechanical and Civil Engineering - 6 Tracks, School of Electronics Engineering - 8 Tracks, Business and Management - 4 Tracks.• At the end of the keynote session, audiences were provided time to clarify their doubts with the speaker and a member from the organizing committee summarized and thanked the speaker.• With regard to the paper presentation, the panel members (session chairs) and audience were given the opportunity to ask questions to the authors regarding their research findings for a duration of 5 minutes.• NCSET2020 had 175 participants from VIT Ch nnai Campus and Eminent Keynotespeakers from India.• All the submitted papers were initially screened for plagiarism using TURNITIN software and only those papers which had less than 10% plagiarism were selected for presentation in the conference. Moreover, all the presented papers were double blind peer reviewed by two reviewers and the authors were instructed to submit the revised manuscript based on the reviewers comments.• NCSET2020 has been conducted successfully during May 11 & 12, 2020. The next edition of the NCSET2020 is planned on November 2020.Best Regards,Editors,Dr.A.Peer FathimaDr.L.PremalathaDr.N.Senthil Kumar

Identifying the Impacts of COVID-19 on Chilean Construction Projects

The construction industry has been highly disrupted by the pandemic as the development of construction projects must be adapted due to policies to minimize the spread of COVID-19, such as social distancing. As the construction industry contributes approximately 7% of Chilean GDP, it is important to identify and understand the impacts the construction industry has suffered due to the pandemic context. This study aims to identify the impacts of COVID-19 on Chilean construction projects. This study is enabled by data from 40 semi-structured interviews collected between May and November 2020 with multiple stakeholders working on projects during the pandemic, namely construction managers, construction engineers, and laborers of construction work. This study's results are obtained by categorizing the impacts of COVID-19 on Chilean construction projects, performing content analysis to the data collected. We found that the impacts of COVID-19 on construction projects can be classified in nine categories, being the categories with the most coded responses the following: economic impacts, productivity, and the stop and delay of construction projects. Additionally, the impacts from COVID-19 were identified to reach multiple levels, namely at the company, project, workers, and suppliers and subcontractors' levels. The most coded excerpts regarding the impacts of COVID-19 were found at the project and workers' levels. This study is a first step that identifies the impacts suffered by the construction industry due to pandemic conditions;understanding these impacts may guide the most appropriate plans and policies of decision-makers in the fight against COVID-19 in the construction industry. © 2023, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering.

An examination of productivity, employee well-being, and remote work in a post-Covid-19 environment

This research examined productivity, employee well-being, and remote work from a post-pandemic perspective. Earlier research used a theoretical and practical approach to this problem. By using the Social Exchange Theory (SET), as introduced by Homans in 1958 as the foundation for this study, and by adding both the ego-depletion approach and the positive organizational behavior (POB) theory, the author was able to provide perception into how software engineers view productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic. This quantitative correlational approach permitted a more in-depth exploration of computer engineers' attitudes and views locally and globally. The emerging themes of this research include perception, understanding, and the lack of communication, which can cause the overall goal to be unclear. While not all research hypotheses were proven within the study, the research does bring to light the measures needed to clarify and define productivity. The analysis showed both connections and contrasts in how software engineers think. Although some may perceive that geography determines perception, the study provides similarities to common beliefs centering around the topic. While there is a relationship between productivity, employee well-being, and remote work among software engineers, the small relationship is only relevant when comparing productivity to remote work. There is no association between productivity and employee well-being among software engineers and signals no significance as evaluated by productivity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)

Systematic Literature Review of Students' perception of Employability Skills

CONTEXT Over the years, research investigating how engineering education contributes to the employability skills of students has led to the adoption of scenario-, problem- or project-based learning being implemented as effective methods for developing skills. Measuring student perception has emerged as an effective tool to gain insights into how changes to engineering curricula can contribute to various skills and attributes of engineering graduates. The COVID-19 pandemic has, however, disrupted teaching methods, making student engagement challenging. The effectiveness of teaching methods is dependent on the students' engagement level, which in turn translates into developing their employability skills. PURPOSE OR GOAL In order to pave the way for the post-pandemic approach towards improving the employability skills of engineers, it is important to gain a comprehensive understanding of the existing literature in this area of study. Thus, the aim of this study is to conduct a systematic literature review of undergraduate engineering students' perceptions of employability skills. APPROACH OR METHODOLOGY/METHODS Utilising the PRISMA protocol, a systematic review of the existing literature will be performed, looking at student perception of employability skills. The review will look at peer-reviewed research reporting on post-secondary engineering education in the last 20 years. Highly relevant papers will be chosen based on the protocol and reviewed. ACTUAL OUTCOMES Throughout the literature on this topic, a recurring theme is that employability skills are not well-defined, and a range of reference frameworks are used, such as accreditation requirements, 21st century skills and global engineer skills. The review found that the employers perceive that graduating engineers' non-technical skills are inadequate. In response, universities are constantly evolving their curricula and teaching methods to address this gap. Mismatches are identified in terms of the student perceptions of important employability skills and the perceptions of universities and industry employers. Internships, job placements, and problem- and project-based learning have found their place in helping undergraduate students to develop their skills. Suggestions for future work include a comparison with other professional degrees and how engineering education has deviated from these other degrees. CONCLUSIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS/SUMMARY The effect of COVID-19 on engineering student's employability and how long it will persist is currently unknown. This study contributes to the understanding of student perceptions about employability skills before the pandemic to understand the state of play when the COVID-19 disruption to teaching and learning occurred. It adds to the growing body of knowledge on engineering education focussed on employability skills and will help develop this field progress as we emerge from the pandemic. Copyright © Karthikaeyan Chinnakannu Murthy and Tania Machet, 2021.

A Digital Transformation Journey for a Mature using Production Technologies and Innovation Principles

A novel solution was proposed in Ecuador to transition from reactive to a proactive way of working into a collaborative environment. This new workflow is supported by a portfolio of three production technologies that integrates live and historical information by combining the edge intelligence strength (for each production element connected to IoT platform) and the cloud insight to enhance the field operational efficiency. Technology that reduces carbon footprint and increases people's efficiency through automation of repetitive tasks. The main challenge that required an integrated and smart solution was the existence of silos, meaning that all production chain elements were disconnected. The solution consisted of a portfolio of three technologies. First, connecting all production chain elements to one unique gateway and Edge platform: all data were consolidated to perform asset surveillance, monitoring, and controlling of electrical submersible pump (ESP) parameters from any vendor. Second, creation of an autonomous system aiming to avoid gas blockage on ESPs. Third, deployment of Production Engineering Orchestrator, fully completed and in continuous improvement, easing collaborative, day-to-day analysis for production, operations, and exploitation engineers We achieved remarkable results with Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud insights implementation;for instance, travel reduction of 18%, personnel efficiency increase (production operations 7% and surveillance engineers 25%), 47% events detection increase, 32% well uptime increase, and 2.14 t carbon dioxide emissions reduction (22.6%). Because of the outstanding results achieved from IoT adoption, new applications were deployed in other projects. With automated annular gas handling, production challenges related to high gas/oil ratio wells were solved. Solution consisted in delivering an automated ESP gas-handling process by using a securely connected, solar-powered skid to optimize well performance, production was increased by 12%, field visits reduced by 94%, and valves manipulation decreased by 97%. Other applications are also running in parallel, to expand the concept of intelligent asset solution. For the production engineering workflows orchestrator, the native implementation is completed, where the highest business impact workflows are included, such as smart production surveillance, waterflooding optimization and ESP surveillance. Insights are shown in "production overview". It is also possible to follow up oil and water producing wells, task modules, customized maps and graphs, sanity check processes, and well model calibration (including the paraffin curves). The integration of these three digital production technologies to improve artificial lift surveillance, production surveillance, and waterflooding optimization workflows is already deployed and showing tangible benefits. Currently, a mature field project is currently working in a collaborative environment, promoting a new proactive operational philosophy that avoids early pump failures, reduces downtime, field trips, personnel exposure due to the COVID-19 pandemic and supports the environmental commitment towards the carbon footprint reduction. Copyright © 2022, Society of Petroleum Engineers.

End-To-End Digital AWP Based Project Delivery, LNG Case Study

Objectives/Scope: An expansion multi-billion dollar LNG plant EPC project has successfully adopted end to end digital project delivery overcoming numerous challenges. The complete Engineering, Procurement and Construction works, is scheduled to be commissioned by 2025. An extension of the existing liquefaction complex comprising of six complete trains and associated facilities, meant to increase the national LNG production by 35%. The complexity of multiple inter-continental entities, systems and cultural divisions between Engineering, Procurement (in Europe) and Construction driven from Far-east had been significant and further compounded by Covid. To align all parties early using the Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) method and digitally mapping the systems and enormous data generated from each department (working in silos), were the main challenges in taking the job further from FEED in to Detail Engineering and Site Execution. The entities involved had adopted the AWP method first time for project delivery. Methods, Procedures, Process: Based on the Advanced Work Packaging (AWP) and Workface Planning (WFP) philosophy, the whole project have been managed through a highly effective building sequence based digital detailed work packages for Engineering, Preconstruction planning and Onsite installation (EWPs, CWPs and IWPs respectively). The digital collaboration between departments and teams located in multiple countries, made all that possible and has been the key to success. The JV engaged subject matter experts in AWP, and also implemented an end to end digital project delivery platform. The platform was implemented as a non-disruptive overlay to over 15 different preexisting software and tools. Their interaction into a single digital platform has been extremely important to connect and manage the various stage of the process. All the information from Engineering, Procurement and Construction flow in one unique database and interact each other. That allows all stakeholders, including the Owner, to manage and have the full visibility of all EPC phases. A huge amount of data and information centralized, digitalized and made available to all stakeholders. The flexibility in the customization of the various modules and dashboards of the system, has been imperative due to the different setups and approach to Construction from JV's companies and that's the biggest vantage to manage properly all phases of the project. Results, Observations, Conclusions: According to various analysis performed on the project schedule, the Engineering phase got a 10% reduction of manhours investment against a contemporary AWP implementation, because of taking a digital approach. The project has started to experience a schedule compression consequently in Construction activities, that have started earlier than planned. By utilizing the automatic breakdown of CWPs into IWPs, considering the crew size and their rates, has led to a significant reduction in manhours spent for the WFP activities at site and in terms of number of personnel required. The early preparation has started to reduce the uncertainties faced in the field. Construction progress details are made visible through the system and utilising some of the 3D functions, and also get a graphical representation on a colour coded 4D report. The selective account permissions, makes relevant data available to any stakeholder in an easy to use and simple manner, depending on the department and company. One can view and work only on the required portion of the total scope, reducing the time of chasing information when dealing with huge amount of data. Furthermore, it provided a great advantage to allow setting up the contractual requirements based on the visibility of information to the project leadership of each company involved. Novel/Additive Information: Conventionally, AWP implementation is resource intensive and time consuming for any new entity. Directly implementing this in mega project with companies in a JV situation is even more challenging. Taking a digital first approach and ad pting a strong framework enabled by cloud based technology has been a great advantage for all departments and stakeholders involved. The project has avoided lost time in chasing information and people, decreased the risk of common mistakes in data retrieval and have increased their productivity. The advanced planning and the interaction with the project schedule, the deliverables and the materials availability in real time has been done smoothly. Furthermore, the Machine learning based material visibility, management of various warehouses have helped implement a smooth material pull for the project. The GIS based scope management along with the various 3D functions, are being used along with machine learning to drive continuous improvement for the success of the LNG project. Copyright © 2022, Society of Petroleum Engineers.