
Master the architecture and design of digital transformation systems, including prerequisites and current information technology. Explore integration techniques, deliverables, and real-world cases in oil and gas and utilities.
Trace the background of IT and digital systems from early methods to ERP and integrated control systems, and note the shift to agile, open source, cloud, IoT, and industry 4.0.
Identify and secure prerequisites for digital transformation projects, including the right resources and team, established standards and design tools, and coordinated cross-discipline processes with vendors, quality control, and testing.
Trace current IT and automation systems—from distributed control and excess to mac and proposed MDC—and their move toward edge computing and cloud for digital transformation.
Examine the broad mix of digital transformation technologies and applications across sectors—IoT and field systems, ERP, CMS, APM, AI and big data, mobility, blockchain, fintech, metaverse, and integration tools.
Explore engineering and information technology approaches to systems design and architecting, from data collection and analysis through detailed design, procurement, testing, and rollout, using CAD, ERP, and digital twins.
Identify the main digital transformation project deliverables, including conceptual design reports, site survey reports, and integration and feed documents, and outline early tendering strategy implications.
Assess how existing systems and brownfield projects affect design, integration, obsolescence, cost of ownership, data migration, and change management within a unified digital transformation.
This lecture provides tips for designing digital technology projects, including assembling the right team, defining scope, data collection, and adopting an up-down master plan with cost-benefit analysis for phased solutions.
Explore integration techniques and tools across field to enterprise levels, including middleware, adapters, API calls, and database-to-database methods. Highlight real-time data, orchestration, publish-subscribe, and service-oriented architectures in modern digital projects.
This part of the “Digital Technology & Transformation course”, is part III (Architecting & Designing Digital Transformation projects & Systems”, which is the technical and design part, intended for IT professional, engineers and technical managers, who want to know more about the technical, design, engineering and technology aspects of Digital Technology, solutions and projects. It follows parts I & II, which covered; introduction to this technology & projects, and covered its applications in over twelve sectors. This part shall help participants in understanding the underlying technology, design methods, challenges, architecting, integration requirements and techniques of such complex and advanced solutions. It covers over thirteen lessons, each ends by a quiz. This part also explains the difference between the “engineering” way vs “IT” way in designing and delivering these projects and the characteristics, pros and cons of each. It also discusses; design optimization, QA/QC issues, testing and site works. At the end, it gives brief explanation of real Digital Transformation projects and examples, which were done or led by the instructor in different sectors.
The course discusses also risks and challenges, gives very important tips for the success of these projects, based on over forty years of experience in automation, IT and Digitization, beside teaching this technology in the academia.
Part IV, “Managing Digital Transformation projects”, for those who want to learn how to manage such projects, will follow soon.