Siemens Lifecycle Twin

Product Overview

Lifecycle Twin is a Building X offering that provides a single pane of glass for data related to equipment, other assets, and location from different stages of a building's lifecycle, integrated via APIs. Customers can create data quality reports to check data quality and refine data. Using 2D and 3D visualization and navigation, customers can maintain and manage their buildings and create and manage documents and tasks in correlation to the assets.

Key Features

• An integrated 'Single Source of Truth' database with visual 2D, 3D interfaces for data collection, analysis, and asset data maintenance over the whole facility lifecycle.
• ISO 19650-compliant Common Data Environment (CDE).
• Support for open information standards, for example COBie IFC.
• Maintain and visualize entire systems, components, and location relations, including quality check of data.
• Maintain and manage document workflows and versions.
• Create tasks for documents and components and manage task workflows for predictive and reactive maintenance.
• Virtually navigate the building with the possibility to have different views based on discipline and store viewpoints of interest.
• Quick information retrieval by bar code scan of a device on mobile.
• Locate assets and evaluate condition by display of live values and historical information.
• Highlighting areas and components of interest based on custom conditions and animations.

Functions

Common Data Environment

The CDE offers flexibility in defining customer-specific properties for location and assets to make available the complete information about the infrastructure in a single place. Customers can correlate structured data, including BIM and other information about assets, from third-party tools via APIs. The quality check and reporting help customers refine and maintain data quality throughout the building's lifecycle. Relationships between various entities, including location information, systems, associated documents, and tasks, can be stored in a single place, allowing for a complete overview for facility managers and owners.

Tasks for Asset Maintenance

Tasks can be scheduled to maintain and manage building assets using recurring tasks. The history of maintenance activities can be used for analysis and planning. Tasks can also be created and managed for current asset failure or damage, including repair/replacement, and assigned to personnel. Service engineers and operators can easily locate assets using 3D visualization, add comments, and interact using the mobile application. Related information about the impacted system, documents, or components can be retrieved for assistance.

Facility managers can access information about the status and details of tasks added by field operators to change assignments, provide suggestions, or plan additional activities.

Navigation for Inspections and Maintenance

Facility managers and operators can remotely navigate buildings using the available 2D and 3D navigation options. Layers such as HVAC, Electrical, and Fire can be enabled and disabled, and views and viewpoints can be created as per different needs if available from BIM. Customers can search and isolate an entire system or asset for maintenance and troubleshooting.

A correlated visualization of the 2D and 3D floor plan is available when navigating areas, allowing for easy switching between 2D and 3D, including 2D overlays. Users can visualize floors, hide ceilings, walls, etc., to view assets behind them and jump between floors using simple navigation options for remote diagnostics.

Real Time Information and Visualization

Lifecycle Twin integrates real-time values using the remote data service via Modbus and OPC, or customer-specific integrations built via Lifecycle Twin APIs. Time-series information can be visualized for historical analysis and predictions based on connected data. Animations on assets can be created to represent components needing focus and can be quickly identified. Rooms and components can be colored based on custom conditions to represent various aspects, including space utilization and areas needing attention, depending on the use cases.

Information Handover and Workflows

Documents are a critical part of end-to-end project delivery and operations. Lifecycle Twin facilitates information handover, inspections, and operations inline with ISO19650 by providing various mechanisms for versioning, maintaining, and modifying documents, including workflow definition and management. Workflows can be defined at the project level and associated with both tasks and documents.

Data Hosting and Data Usage

Data is hosted and processed in data centers located in Ireland, USA, or Australia, depending on the deployment. For information regarding personal data processing, customers may refer to the Data Processing Terms.

Data Export and Import

BIM information can be imported into Lifecycle Twin using the IFC and Revit BIM connector tools. These tools offer various options to select information for import, including metadata and geometry. Lifecycle Twin also supports import and export via COBie spreadsheets for data and documents.

Ask Building X

Ability to ask questions in different languages about Building X technical information, utilizing Generative AI.

The images in this document are examples for the purpose of explanation only and not an exact representation of the offering.

Subscription Plans

1) Standard Subscription Plan On-premises

2) Standard Subscription Plan Cloud

Lifecycle Twin supports primarily the EU (Ireland) deployment. For integrations with other Building X applications or IoT devices, the Lifecycle Twin EU (Ireland) base package should be ordered. All subscriptions within a company must belong to the same region. Lifecycle Twin also supports US and APAC deployments for standalone use cases. The base package for cloud deployment must be selected correctly at the time of purchase and is not reversible.

3) Custom Subscription Plan

Subscriptions not purchased via a Siemens online store are Custom Subscription Plans. Details regarding functions, subscription metrics, terms, billing, scaling, connected devices, and permitted users are set out in the agreement between the Customer and Siemens.

Prerequisites

Web browser and Viewing Devices

Chrome is recommended, but other standard browsers may also serve the function. A screen resolution of 1920x1080 pixels or higher is recommended for the best user experience.

Internet Connection

The bandwidth of the customer's internet connection determines the performance of the Cloud Service.

Ordering

To order a subscription plan and connected devices, customers must request a quote from their Siemens sales representative.

Product Documentation

1) Product Documentation under a Standard Subscription Plan for Cloud and On-premise

2) Product Documentation under a Custom Subscription Plan

The contractual documents and the Product Documentation are set out in Siemens' offer to the Customer.

3) Data Privacy Terms

Both documents are applicable to both cloud subscription and on-premise subscription.

4) Technical Documents

Specific Terms

High-Risk Use

Customer acknowledges and agrees that:

• The Offerings are not designed to be used for the operation of or within a High-Risk System if the functioning of the High-Risk System is dependent on the proper functioning of the Offerings; and
• The outcome from any processing of data through the use of the Offerings is beyond Siemens' control.

Service Level Agreement

Siemens shall use commercially reasonable efforts to make the Cloud Services available for a monthly uptime percentage of ninety-eight percent (98%), except for:

• Planned downtime, agreed downtime, routine and emergency maintenance.
• Cyberattacks.
• The public, third party and/or customer's internet and communications networks.
• Data, software, hardware, telecommunications, infrastructure, power, build-packs or networking equipment not provided by Siemens.
• Customer's and Users negligence or failure in using the Cloud Service and/or in not following the instructions of published documentation.
• System configurations and platforms not supported by Siemens.
• System administrations, action, commands and file transfers of Customer or User.
• Modifications or alterations not made by Siemens.
• Unauthorized access via Customer's credentials and/or any other failure outside of Siemens' reasonable control.

Customer Support

Siemens offers helpdesk support. Customers may contact their local Siemens representative for support requests.