Building and operating large infrastructure facilities require vast amounts of raw materials, large machinery, and manpower. Moreover, it both demands and generates vast amounts of data. Structuring all this data and converting it into practically usable knowledge is a resource-intensive task.
Applied knowledge and artificial intelligence
With artificial intelligence permeating all aspects of daily life and business, this task can become significantly easier and more efficient, provided you know how to do it. This is where Mie Hvas comes in. She has just been announced as Sund & Bælt’s new head of applied knowledge and artificial intelligence. The company shared this information in a press release.
In the press release, Sund & Bælt states that the company is now taking “a decisive step towards integrating artificial intelligence into all parts of the company’s value chain.”
Crucial AI solutions
According to the new AI chief, it is crucial for the company to work strategically with AI:
– We work on projects that require highly specialized skills, and we cannot realize them in the future just by bringing in more people. Specialists are not easy to find, and it is both costly and inefficient. Therefore, it is important that we make the best use of existing knowledge and technology, and here, AI solutions are absolutely crucial, says Mie Hvas.
Mie Hvas comes from a senior position at the consulting firm Accenture. She has many years of experience with data and digital projects. She will use these skills and experiences to take a strategic and cross-organizational look at Sund & Bælt and identify where technologies such as AI can help streamline and yield benefits.
Identifying AI opportunities
– I am now fully engaged in identifying our opportunities, where we will be working with LLMs (large language models like ChatGPT, ed.) in specific cases such as contract management in large infrastructure projects. This is one area where we can optimize work processes and ensure the application of valuable knowledge, explains Mie Hvas.
She elaborates that the potential for using artificial intelligence at Sund & Bælt is vast and that more AI pilot projects will be launched continuously.
