Digitalize Your Grid. From Engineering to Operation.
Grid operators face growing demands on their infrastructure, their engineering teams and the quality of their asset data. We help you connect these pieces with expert software and digitalization services built around substation engineering.
- Asset data clean-up: Build a trustworthy digital foundation for your existing substations.
- Efficient engineering: Help your team deliver more projects with consistent quality.
- Connected workflows: Bring engineering, asset management and operations closer together.
How primtech solves them
From Engineering to Operation – one substation database at the core
Software
Need to deliver more projects with limited engineering resources?
primtech 3d helps your team design and engineer substations efficiently, standardize workflows with reusable templates and produce consistent, high-quality engineering tenders.
- Accelerate Your Projects
- Ensure High-Quality Outputs
- Save Costs Efficiently
Service
Can you trust the data of your existing substations?
With our OSR+PRO service, we combine laser scans, asset information and existing documentation to create a validated Digital Inventory, identify missing or inconsistent information and build an accurate digital model.
- From Laser Scan to BIM Model
- Automated Asset Data Cleanup
- VR-compatible Digital Twin of your substations
Service
Are engineering and asset data stuck in separate systems?
primtech Connectors help link engineering data with asset management systems and existing IT environments, supporting consistent information across departments and creating a Single Source of Truth.
- Simple data integration, even for complex projects
- Integrations for Autodesk Revit, ERP systems, Navisworks and more
- Make more out of your primtech data
Software
Could your operational teams benefit from a better view of the substation?
primtech DT makes digital substation models accessible in VR for use cases such as operability reviews, work preparation and safety training, helping teams understand assets before going on site.
- Intuitive Use without any training
- Seamless Collaboration with BIM Collaboration Assistant
- Powerful Simulations and VR for your daily workflows
Everyone has a Digital Twin. Now, make it work together.
A Digital Twin of your substation is a good start. But its real value unfolds when it connects with the systems, assets and processes around it.
We’re looking beyond individual twins towards a federated Digital Twin of the grid, where information flows across departments, technologies and organisational boundaries. And we’re not just talking about that future: our experts actively help shape it through leading industry organisations like CIGRE and ENTSO-E, with interoperability at the core.
Every Digital Substation Twin journey starts somewhere. Where are you?
Some grid operators still rely heavily on 2D drawings and file-based documentation. Others have adopted 3D design or BIM, while some are already connecting engineering data with asset management and operational use cases.
There’s no universal starting point. Understanding your current level of digital maturity helps you identify the next steps that make sense for your organization.
Where are you today?
1. 2D Design
Fast but error-prone – review cycles reduce the consistency across the documentation.
2. 3D Design
Three-dimensional models improve visualization and engineering workflows – however manual modelling work increases.
3. Substation BIM
Domain specific software automates design and engineering work, combining the benefits of 3D with fast workflows.
4. Digital Twin
Engineering models developed during design, connected to asset data, accessible in the lifecycle across the organization.
Your roadmap to the Digital Substation Twin
How do you get there?
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Digitalize existing substations
Create a reliable Digital Inventory and have missing or inconsistent asset data corrected with OSR+PRO.
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Establish BIM workflows
Standardize 3D design and engineering across greenfield and brownfield projects with primtech 3d.
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Connect your data
Link engineering and asset management systems to establish a single source of truth.
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Enable practical use cases
Make Digital Twins accessible across your organization and introduce applications for engineering, operations and safety.
Not every journey looks the same. We’ll help you identify your starting point and find the right approach for your organization.
From Design Decisions to Daily Operations
From engineering and project delivery to asset management and daily operations, primtech helps your teams put substation data to work. Explore practical use cases for both fields, from improving design quality and project workflows to enabling VR-based reviews, work preparation and safety training.
Assess feasibility earlier
Explore proposed extensions and reconstruction concepts in the context of the existing substation. Identify spatial constraints and potential issues before committing to detailed engineering.
Improve tender quality and keep budgets
Use consistent, structured engineering information to improve the quality of tender documents and support a closer match between the approved design and the as-built substation.
Reduce 4 weeks on brownfield projects
Give engineers a better understanding of existing conditions and reduce the need to reconstruct information from scattered drawings and site visits.
Collaborate with suppliers
Use structured model-based information with BoM to support collaboration and data exchange with external engineering partners and suppliers, including openBIM workflows where applicable.
Explore primtech 3dReview operability and feasibility in VR
Explore proposed layouts and changes in a realistic digital environment. Help teams assess access, clearances and the practical implications of engineering decisions before construction begins.
Prepare work with a clearer picture of the site
Use the Digital Twin to understand equipment locations, topology, and relevant asset information before arriving on site.
Train for safety in a virtual environment
Let teams familiarize themselves with substation layouts and switching scenarios through VR-based training, and reduce the risk of hazardous events on-site.
Give teams and stakeholders a shared view
Make the Digital Twin a central access point for digital substation information, connected to the relevant asset management data and available to the people who need it.
Explore primtech DT
Frequently Asked Questions
primtech supports grid operators across engineering, asset data and operations: OSR+PRO creates a validated Digital Inventory of existing substations, primtech 3d makes substation design and engineering more efficient, primtech Connectors link engineering data with asset management systems, and primtech DT makes the Digital Twin accessible for operational teams.
A Digital Twin of your substation is a good start, but its real value unfolds when it connects with the systems, assets and processes around it – so that information flows across departments, technologies and organisational boundaries.
There’s no universal starting point. Some grid operators still rely on 2D drawings, others already use 3D design or BIM, and some are connecting engineering data with asset management. Understanding your current level of digital maturity helps you identify the next steps that make sense for your organization.
With the OSR+PRO service, laser scans, asset information and existing documentation are combined to create a validated Digital Inventory, identify missing or inconsistent information and build an accurate digital model.
primtech DT makes digital substation models accessible in VR for use cases such as operability reviews, work preparation and safety training, helping teams understand assets before going on site.