Leap forward to 2030.

The desalination industry is pivoted around the business platform from the “Y” company. It covers nearly all aspects of the project-plant life cycle from feasibility studies to operation and maintenance.

The 50X speed of the plant design and engineering made it popular among engineers. To learn and earn, they add their own virtual plants to a stock. It is a “crowd engineering” in action. The professional community makes the platform ideal for advertising, upskilling, job hunting, and information sharing – all are pivoted around a live business.

Engineering consulting has lost the design guidance and standards compliance functions as stocked plants undergo deep validation and quality assessment automatically.

Customers may browse the plant design and watch its operation and maintenance simulation online. It absorbs some tasks of the feasibility study. To complete it, the platform guides the customer through the best plant selection process.

Having selected the plant, the customer invites engineering contractors to submit online quotations for a balance of works. It is focused on 3D modeling, procurement QA, commissioning QA, and civil works. The platform enables customers to collect bids and select the best ones.

To quote via the platform is a privilege given to contractors and OEM vendors in exchange for maintaining their profile portfolio on the platform. It uses this data for the health assessment of the business and guidance it to better self.

The plant construction lasts about a year. Four factors make it possible - modular design, systems interchangeability, splitting a project among several contractors working concurrently, and a tight interaction between contractors and OEMs.

The “Y” platform disrupted the procurement pattern by virtually consolidating the OEM vendors. Driven by the principle "quote once - use many times", consolidation slashes prices and makes ordering fast and transparent.

Every plant in operation continuously sends back to the platform the information about its systems and the performance metrics. This feedback loop (with engineers as part of it) is a bridge to a plant evolutionary design for safety and reliability. In other words, like people, plants are linked to the same platform for the entire asset life.

The platform manages not only plants but people too. It tracks the user's business history, creates her/his resume, and automatically selects the best candidate for every new vacancy posted on the platform. Its relentless advance of meritocracy unleashes engineering creativity.

The astronomic volumes of data on engineering, procurement, commissioning, contractor management, operation, and maintenance are what drive the platform's evolution. The AI agents constantly scan the data and produce recommendations and business rules on why, what, and how to improve.