Back in the pre-COVID days, the Zoom communication platform had on average 10 million daily participants. By April 2020, the communication system now holds more than 300 million daily meeting participants. Although today, we are not fully working from home – except in some     countries –, we are still working in a hybrid way. With hybrid working becoming the norm, we can definitely say that online meetings are definitely going to stay.

In addition to saving you time, the “Let’s have a visio” approach also has the benefits of getting the important information right away, bringing a large crowd of stakeholders together but also reducing your carbon footprint, which is appealing to a company in terms of costs but also ESG – Environmental, Societal, Governance.

Fine, we are saving time when it comes to meetings but is there also a solution for field activities? The answer is yes. Do you remember the article on Quadrica’s ViSu that we published back in October 2021? Yes, the one on a digital twin solution used by EDF France. EDF also uses ViSu – that they recently acquired – for their engineers so they can collect data from the digital twin instead of going on-site. Again, it saves time. As useful as it is, you would still be bound by the limitations of the software itself.

For some activities, you would need to see the real components / equipment / processes in front of you, with your own eyes. This is especially true when as an SLC or prime contractor, you need to inspect some equipment being made at a manufacturer’s site. If you could do it remotely, budget and time-wise, it would be extremely interesting, especially if the product is coming from a country far from yours. Today, you’re in luck, at inTechBrew, we’ve found a solution and guess what? It has already been deployed in the nuclear industry.