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Practice 04 · Industry & Advisory

Senior engineering advice, built and run.

Industry & Advisory delivers senior engineering and advisory work for rail, energy and infrastructure — together with an integrated digital backbone we cost, build and run, so the advice becomes a working reality your people can rely on. From the cloud, data and intelligence foundation through to the engineering itself, one team carries it from concept to business as usual.

Rail Asset management Field service Pre-FEED & FEED ISO 55000 Digital backbone
Rail · Assets · FieldThree delivery tracks
Concept → BAUAcross the lifecycle
Cost · Build · RunAdvice through to operation
IntegratedOne nimble team

Advice you can build on

Our advice is grounded in delivery. We do more than design the programme — we have stood up the FEED (front-end engineering design), mobilised the change, implemented the asset-management system and run the environment afterwards. That means we bring the engineering and the costed digital foundation to deliver it, as one integrated team, at a price that represents genuine value for a board.

An integrated digital backbone

What sets the work apart is the foundation the programme runs on. We cost, build and operate it — and it is more than IT, because the rest of SCG.World comes with it:

  • Cloud, data & AI foundation — a managed Microsoft environment, data platform and AI that the whole programme runs on, ready from the first day
  • Asset management — ISO 55000 transformation, with the systems to manage assets as a living capability and sustain it
  • Simulation & immersive training — for the operations too rare, too costly or too demanding to rehearse on a live asset
  • Field service & augmentation — voice, wearables and remote assist that bring intelligence to the frontline

Advice and the means to deliver it. You get the advice and the digital backbone to make it happen and keep it running — the rest of SCG.World, brought to bear on your programme.

Across the lifecycle

From first feasibility through to business as usual, the same team carries the thread — and the digital backbone runs across every stage, so your people are ready from the first day, with the IT foundation already in place.

The engineering lifecycle in five stages — feasibility, pre-FEED, FEED, delivery, and business as usual — with the digital backbone running across all of them. Feasibilityoptions & case Pre-FEEDscope & cost FEEDdesign & define Deliverybuild & mobilise BAUrun & improve Digital backbone — costed, built and run across every stage
The engineering lifecycle, with the digital backbone carried across all of it — concept to BAU, one team.

What we deliver

Three connected tracks, delivered with specialist partners where it adds value — BIM, rail resourcing — under SCG.World's coordination and accountability.

Rail

  • Pre-FEED & FEED — rail and energy feasibility and design, turned around quickly
  • Rail spur & yard engineering — layout, alignment and terminal design
  • Rolling stock programmes — fleet, equipment and the training to operate it
  • Terminal programmes — ammonia, hydrogen and CO₂ (NH₃, LH₂, LCO₂) loading and unloading terminals

Asset management

  • ISO 55000 transformation — strategy, maturity uplift and the operating model to sustain it
  • AMS procurement & implementation — selected, implemented and integrated with your other systems
  • Traceability — stock management and full traceability for complex asset programmes

Field service & business change

  • Business change & mobilisation — standing up new organisations and moving them onto a secure, ready foundation
  • Enterprise migration — mission-critical transitions, delivered smoothly
  • Field service platforms — AI, voice and wearables brought to the frontline

How a programme runs

The same shape every time — shape it, build the foundation, then mobilise and run.

1 · Shape

  • Feasibility, options appraisal and the business case
  • Asset-management strategy where it is in scope
  • The digital and cloud services costed in from the start

2 · Build the backbone

  • FEED and design alongside the costed digital foundation
  • A pre-configured Microsoft environment, data platform and AI, ready to go
  • Risk and cost reduced later in the programme — BIM, AI and digital design tools

3 · Mobilise & run

  • Business change so your people are ready from the first day
  • Asset management run as a living system
  • The backbone operated and improved as the programme grows

Proof across the arc

Build — clean-energy railOn a major clean-energy rail programme, our pre-FEED submission included not only the engineering but a fully costed digital backbone — asset management, ERP, AI, immersive training, augmented reality and a security operations centre.
Transform — asset managementISO 55000 asset-management transformation and a multi-phase plan for a UK transport authority — advisory we are still engaged on today.
Run — live asset systemA live asset-management system we deliver, and are permitted to demonstrate, providing stock management and full traceability for a rail operator's wifi and signalling equipment upgrades.

It runs on your Microsoft world. The digital backbone is the Modern Workplace we secure and Sentry watches; the AI, simulation and field service come from InterReality Labs. One firm, one foundation, one accountable team.

Customer success
Rail · Mission-critical workplace migration

Supertram, migrated to a secure modern workplace — over a single weekend.

We moved a mission-critical light-rail network to an entirely new secure workplace in one weekend: 450 staff, twenty years of data, every device and all the printing — transitioned from the previous operator onto a foundation that met a demanding security and governance regime. The trams ran on Monday.

Talk to us about a mobilisation →
450 staffmigrated together
One weekendmission-critical switchover
20 yearsof data carried over

Delivered for the network operator. Further references available on request.

Industry & Advisory

From the first idea to running reality.

Standing up a new organisation, mobilising change, or transforming how you manage your assets? We bring the senior engineering and advisory — and the digital backbone to deliver it and keep it running.