NextPlant: our way to Digital Transformation To help its EPC clients succeed in their digital transformation, Maire Tecnimont has launched its NextPlant platform, a portfolio of digital solutions and services that, becoming a source of differentiation and competitive advantage, creates cost-competitive EPC processes and unlock value for plant owners.
At the same time, by developing an ecosystem of qualified partners, Maire Tecnimont is expanding its digital portfolio (NextPlant) to include products and services that can reduce the operating costs of industrial plants, helping to increase their sustainability by lowering CO2 emissions (for example by using process optimizers), reducing the risk of accidents affecting people and the environment through predictive maintenance, facilitating the transfer of skills and creating new job opportunities (such as advanced training systems).
The Group’s digital transformation program has two main areas. The first is the digitalization of our own core processes in several different ways: by using digital enablers to increase competitiveness by reducing costs for Maire Tecnimont Group companies and for their customers, and by speeding up the bidding process and project execution.
SUSTAINABLE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Digitalization of our own core processes enabled us to guarantee business continuity during the pandemic. During the spring of 2020, meetings on the Group's collaboration platform (Teams) increased from a few hundred to over 3,000 events per day. The second main element is to create a digital advantage as an EPC contractor by incorporating digital services for new and existing clients by improving plant productivity, by reducing operating costs and by increasing plant sustainability. We are identifying new value based on technologyenabled offerings; improving customer experience and therefore our business proposition; deploying opportunities to enhance the generation of In-Country Value (ICV) in the regions where we do business. The portfolio as a whole contributes to reduce the Total Cost of Plant Ownership (TCO) that we can offer our clients. Our progress has allowed us to better manage our EPC work sequences, leading to improved control of project execution in time and quality, and also greater control of HSE aspects during construction. 26
Digital transformation plays an important role in all sustainability issues. On the one hand, it dematerializes the physical concept of the workplace in favour of remote working, while on the other, it makes information and data fully transparent and accessible, eliminating role and generation gaps as well as gender and disability gaps. Our digital transformation is therefore intertwined with our sustainability strategies. Three quarters of our digital solutions support transparency and inclusiveness. Seventy percent of these solutions support good HSE practices and C02 reduction. And 25% support knowledge and skills transfer in the countries where we do business. The Covid-19 pandemic made us experience major changes in many of the basic aspects of our working environment: our concept of the workplace, the way we relate to each other and our colleagues’ work-life balance. Remote working for office staff is just part of this shift. By dematerializing work processes, remote digital solutions also significantly reduce the environmental impact of the Maire Tecnimont Group's activities and of the operational plants. Digital transformation also encourages the transfer of know-how to local workers in the countries hosting our projects; for example, remote collaboration tools
