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Accelerate Your Digital
Transformation Journey
to Operational Excellence
Hexagon’s solutions can help your operations andmaintenance teams prepare for tomorrow, today!

1Investing in a comprehensive, interoperable and enterprise-scalable digitaltransformation strategy will accelerate your continuous improvement efforts in thisever-changing economic landscape. It will also promote the long-term resilience of yourcompany’s safety performance, workforce and asset productivity and provides yourbusiness with the competitive edge it needs to perform at its best. As your trusted
digital transformation partner, Hexagon’s operations and maintenance solutions canhelp create intelligent information from disparate sources including unstructured
disconnected data, documentation and structured digital data sources and existing
databases. Hexagon’s solution also help you find and resolve duplicate data andconsolidate information to reduce operational risk, increase efficiency, decrease
downtime, remove value leaks and meet internal and external compliance. Here is how
we can work with you to implement your operational excellence digital transformation
roadmap, step-by-step.

2Step 1 Digitalize Operational Processes, Procedures and Permits
The creation of a solid operations management data ecosystem by digitalizing
your operational processes, procedures and permits is a strong first step on
the road to digital transformation. Critical asset, situational, qualitative andquantitative information should be captured, structured and stored digitallyand more importantly, organized and made available to support safety-criticaloperational processes. j5 Operations Management Solutions can take yourshift, operator round, personnel, safety, maintenance and process informationand make it visible and viable to users across the entire organization. This
on-premise, or SaaS, solution is designed to foster greater communication,coordination, transparency and knowledge transfer between teams that in turnleads to improved safety and productivity, reduced operational risk and a more
empowered and engaged workforce. j5 Operations Management Solutions
offers a unique, straightforward digitalization approach with its patented
spreadsheet-like configuration environment. This distinctive yet familiar lowcode/no-code approach enables personnel to quickly manage changes without
requiring expensive and slow vendor and IT services, accelerating operational
continuous improvement so your information collection and sharing is always up
to date and reflective of your operations. This distinction allows j5 Operations
Management Solutions to be a quick-time-to-value investment, with highflexibility and a lower total cost of ownership.
Reinforcing this first step with an industry-leading knowledge management
suite aimed at making human performance better through digital tools andconnection to the modern process industry solutions used today is critical.

AcceleratorKMS is an industry-leading solution that expedites the digitaltransformation of paper-based, high-risk operational procedures and workprocesses. However, it also enables organizations to easily manage, govern,and distribute the up-to-date critical operational content field workers require
to keep operations running optimally and learn faster. AcceleratorKMS isa purpose-built and industry-leading Knowledge Management System for
critical operational content. The digital system includes Procedure Life-cycle
Management (PLCM), a Connected Worker Platform (CWP), a Learner Experience
Platform (LXP), and a Component Content Management System (CCMS). The
combined capability facilitates solutions to many critical problems experienced
in workplaces across America and around the World. The system provides anintegrated digital content ecosystem in an easy-to-use and intuitive package
focused on making the complex simple.

Proven Business Outcomes
These are quantitative benefits that were reported by surveyed j5 Operations
Management Solutions customers in 2020:•

Enhanced situational awareness (30%-50%)•

More accurate shift handovers (30%-50%)•

Increased asset availability (20%-50%)•

Better workforce productivity (20%-50%)•

Improved regulatory compliance (20%-50%)•

Reduced maintenance costs (10%-50%)

The implementation of j5 Operations
Management Solutions across the water
control function has given greater visibilityof ongoing issues and given us a consistentand accountable shift handover tool.”- Ant Tyler, Systems Operations ComplianceManager, Thames Water, UK3

To me it’s completely game-changing
to have all this information readily
available on one screen. This is thefirst time an end user can go to one
place and get all the operations,maintenance, engineering andprocess data they need to do theirduties. By having all this information
readily available in a digital twin,
I believe this is an industry firstfor the oil and gas industry, where
it has been difficult to monitor
remote assets and equipment indangerous areas.”- Michael Fry, President and CEO, Deepwater Subsea, USA

Connect Operational Data

Step 2Next, organizations must bridge the islands of crucial information and records innumerous formats on separate systems and digitally connect them to operational
processes, procedures, permits and data to help reduce operational risk, increase
efficiency, decrease downtime, remove value leaks and meet internal and externalcompliance. With PAS AlarmManagement™ you can easily implement industry-wide
best practices to streamline and improve your alarm systems and operatoreffectiveness. PAS ControlWizard™ and PAS TuneWizard™ work together to monitor,
assess and tune your control loops to ensure optimal performance, robust control, andimprove overall safety and reliability. PAS InBound® helps you create a master databaseof operational limits. With it, you can ensure alignment across all your sources of recordand analyze your performance against those limits. PAS IPL Assurance® provides
visibility into your Independent Protection Layers (IPL), making it easier to assure youroperations are safe to run. And the PAS Solution portfolio are interoperable with j5Operations Management Solutions. Adding further value to organizations investingin a digital transformation roadmap guided by Hexagon. Companies can furtherenhance information connection and interoperability by aggregating operational dataand enabling a digital thread framework with HxGN SDx®. This central asset lifecycle
information management (ALIM) solution is strategically designed to capture, organize
and link large volumes of information, in context and provides web-based access to yourauthorized personnel. Available as an on-premise or SaaS solution, it can be adopted
by any facility without introducing new software or investments in IT infrastructure.
HxGN SDx is a CFIHOS-compliant, ALIM digital platform that centralizes and unites
operations, maintenance, safety, engineering and real-time data. HxGN SDx can beconnected to Hexagon technology such as j5 Operations Management Solutions andthird-party industrial data sources such as Aspen InfoPlus.21®, IBM Maximo®, SAP® Plant
Maintenance (PM) and the OSIsoft™ PI System™ to provide a consolidated, role andcontext relevant view of information.

Proven Business OutcomesContact Energy (New Zealand)
60% alarm rate improvements by adjusting alarm setpoints, deadbands, delay times
and improving control logic and 65% reduction in long-standing “stale” alarms,
contributing to improvement of operators’ alarm-related workload
Deepwater Subsea (USA)70% productivity savings in documentation and completion of inspections and 95%
saving in time retrieving and searching for quality evidence post inspection
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Step 3 Protect Your Digital Investments
On the journey to digital maturity, keeping your operations running safely,smoothly and protected from cyber threats is vital to prevent unnecessaryinterruption to your enterprise. There are no shortages of reports or news
outlets raising the alarm on cybersecurity awareness. In fact, the ARC
Advisory Group 1 (2019) reported that “many industrial operations remain
at risk of costly, disruptive cyber incidents.” Its analysts recommended
that “all industrial companies consider software like PAS Cyber
Integrity™ as a foundational element of a defense-in-depth cybersecurity
strategy.” This solution also provides numerous significant customer
benefits such as: discovers and automatically maintains a complete
inventory of OT assets inventory and enables workflows and documentationfor vulnerability remediations and compliance with ISA/IEC 62443, ISO27001/2, NERC-CIP, 2 NIST and the NIS Directive, as well as other standards
and regulations, accelerating recovery with backups of critical control
system data and supporting in-depth forensic analysis. ARC Advisory Groupalso noted that the solution’s capabilities support execution of criticaltasks in the “Secure Systems” and “Incident Management” processes
identified in its “Industrial/OT Cybersecurity Maturity Model.” This
includes functionality for developing and maintaining asset inventories,identifying, evaluating and managing system vulnerabilities, detecting
and managing unexpected system changes and analyzing and visualizing
system security risks.

In industrial facilities, you typically find an arrayof proprietary ICS that are difficult to inventory,
which subsequently makes monitoring for change
and vulnerabilities a security challenge. As thesesystems have direct authority over process safety
and production, there is unaddressed cybersecurity
risk within a facility environment. Hexagon hasarchitected its software to cover these systems,
and its customers have testified to Hexagon’s
effectiveness in reducing security risk.”- Vikrant Gandhi, Industry Director, Frost & Sullivan, USA

Proven Business Outcomes12•

Speeds time to recovery from major events, cyber incidents,
and unplanned outages•

Reduces inventory and documentation effort by 70% or more•

Improves productivity by 20% to 50% via always-on change
management insight into OT/ICS configurations

ARC Advisory Group, “PAS Global Cyber Integrity Helps Secure Industrial Control Systems”
NERC, “CIP Standards”
5Using the Hexagon technology, webuilt a 3D model of our plant that’s
so up-to-date, no one else has theequivalent in our industry. That’s
a definite competitive advantage,that somebody sitting at their desk
can pull out engineering information
instantly in a 3D visualization.”- Alan Keith Chan, Controls, Information Management
and Automation Manager, CNRL, Canada

End Goal Build, Maintain and Evolve a Digital Twin
A digital twin enables asset owners and operators to build and maintain an
information management data ecosystem throughout the asset lifecycle,
allowing for a continuous journey of operational excellence. By deploying acomprehensive digital twin, complex data can be analyzed and transformed
into actionable information. The significance of this ultimate digital platform
is that it opens the door to the competitive advantages made possible
by using predictive and prescriptive analytics, artificial intelligence (AI),machine learning and automated decision making across the value chain.
Hexagon’s Situational Awareness solution — powered by Luciad — boosts
your operations and empowers your workforce by delivering to them avaluable, data-driven experience that encapsulates easily consumable, timely
information regarding past events (what’s happened), present facts (what’shappening now) and future predictions (what could happen/what should
happen/what’s scheduled to happen). Therefore, seamlessly connecting
your safety-critical operations processes, procedures and permits, alarm
management methodology, maintenance work orders, real-time and historical
process data, engineering schematics and technical documentation with
3D models, laser scans and cybersecurity safeguards enables a robust andcomprehensive digital twin for your entire operation.
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Accelerate Your Digital Transformation Journey to Operational Excellence
Employee Safety and Fatality Prevention:
Risk Mitigation and Workforce Accountability
Digitalizing and automating operational processes such as areaand shift handovers, permitting and inspections enables anadditional level of situation data to be collected and insights into
workforce compliance and efficiency. These new insights help
close operational gaps that create safety risks and help improveyour operations to save time and money.

Workforce Productivity:
Decrease Operating Expenses (OpEx)
Optimized assets, reduced downtime, enhanced
productivity and better safety compliance all contributeto lower OpEx and higher profitability. Technology is now
allowing a larger percentage of an operational workforce
to work remotely, which has been shown to increase
employee engagement and happiness while reducing
hazard exposure hours.

Employee Safety and Fatality
Prevention: Meet Compliance
When you need clear, concise and current records for local, stateor federal regulatory compliance requests and procedures,
having your data locked in a physical paper trail to can lead to
unnecessary delays and misinformation. Digital records allow
you to instantaneously deliver accurate, current andcomplete information to internal and external regulators.

Workforce Productivity: Save Time
From the office to the field, personnel can save hours
each day with digital access to the right information at theright time. Instead of spending precious time sorting
through paper documents or multiple systems to track,access and manage vital operational information yourpersonal can put your data and their skills to work
optimizing and improving operations.

Asset Productivity: Increase Efficiency

Asset Productivity: Reduce Operational Risk

Empower your workforce to make informed decisions in real-timewith the information they need, when they need it and where theyneed it — via desktop, laptop or mobile devices. With digitalizeprocesses, the information you need is always on hand, there's noneed to search for paperwork from a previous shift or interrupt a
co-worker who's on break or on vacation.

Workforce safety is improved when you reduce the chances ofhuman error due to reliance on physical paper, especially when it
comes to equipment inspections and shift handovers. Digitalizingthese processes ensures the right equipment and readings areinspected at the right time and assists employees to quickly
highlight when equipment is operating out of its specified ranges.

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Introducing R-evolutionIn February 2021, Hexagon launched a new business venture, R-evolution, to further develop its sustainability
agenda, which include climate goals to significantly reduce its own carbon footprint. R-evolution will invest in andrun profit-driven, sustainable projects that leverage Hexagon’s technology to accelerate the world’s transition to asustainable economy. The first set of investments, centered around renewable energy, will involve the construction
and operation of solar farms in Andalusia, Spain, producing energy with 50,000 tonnes less CO2 equivalents perannum than the grid’s residual mix.

8Hexagon offers more than just software.
We’re there to support you every step along
the way of your digital transformation
journey with industry leading expertise andan arsenal of services to help you launch
initial system deployments in days, adapt
industry standards and best practices into
your deployments, swiftly resolve complex
issues in your core operations such as too
many alarms and poorly designed displays.
Together software, expertise and services
from Hexagon help you modernize andsimplify your operations, better support
your operators and provide actionableinformation everywhere its needed to meetyour business goals while ensuring reliable
and compliant operations.

9Working with a Trusted Digital
Transformation Partner
As YOUR trusted digital transformation partner, we provide
evolving solutions that allow people to design, engineer,construct, operate and maintain industrial assets with stateof-the-art technology backed by a team of global experts andresearch. Together, we are co-creators of the smart solutions
that improve today, work tomorrow and empower adaptivechange. Putting data to work — to boost safety, efficiency,
productivity and quality outcomes — are values we sharewith you.

Our focus ison autonomy

Our commitment is
to innovation

Our value isstrategically vital

Our stability is
consistently proven

Leveraging data to its fullest
potential is the outcome
we want – moving beyond
automation to autonomy

With nearly 4,000 employees
in R&D and more than 3,700
active patents our technology
leadership is clear

Efficiency, productivity andquality results in scalable
sustainability – fewer resources,
less waste, less pollution

Sales growth from €500 million in2000 to €4.3 billion in 2021 withapproximately 22,000 employees
across 50 countries
10Revenue Distribution

About Hexagon’s PPM division
Hexagon’s PPM division is the leading global provider ofenterprise engineering software, enabling smarter designand operation of plants, ships and offshore facilities. With50+ years of experience in delivering innovative industrial
software, Hexagon solutions transform unorganized data
into intelligent, actionable information that enables smarter
design, construction and operation of industrial projects
across the asset lifecycle.

34%

37%

Awarded Solutions Provider

Global Presence

Ranked No. 1 over 13 consecutive years,across 5 different categories, recognizedin 2019 by ARC Advisory Group

More than 4,000 employees,with offices in 50 countries

R&D FocusedMore than 19% of total
revenue invested in 2021

29%

Innovative
More than 40 registered patents
around the world11

About Hexagon
Hexagon is a global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software andautonomous technologies. We are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity,
quality and safety across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, public sector, andmobility applications.
Hexagon’s PPM division empowers its clients to transform unstructured information
into a smart digital asset to visualize, build, and manage structures and facilities of allcomplexities, ensuring safe and efficient operation throughout the entire lifecycle.
Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B) has approximately 22,000 employees in 50 countries
and net sales of approximately 4.3bn EUR. Learn more at hexagon.com and follow us@HexagonAB.
© 2022 Hexagon AB and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates. All rights reserved. 04/22 PPM-US-ENG

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