Digital initiatives such as cloud-based Digital Twins and Artificial Intelligence are vital to improving internal engineering processes in the international Engineering and Construction firm McDermott. According to Mina Ya-alimadad, AI Projects Manager & Academia Partnership Lead at McDermott, the vision of the AI team at McDermott is to develop AI-based products to automate repetitive engineering tasks. In order to host their in-house applications they started using VIKTOR at the end of last year, including a web app referred to as ReCo tool that uses image recognition to identify mistakes in Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs).

McDermott leverages AI to save valuable engineering hours with user-friendly VIKTOR apps

<h2>Connect 100+ engineering tools</h2>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">VIKTOR connects with more than 100 engineering tools across desktop and cloud environments, including Revit, AutoCAD, SCIA, SAP2000, PLAXIS, Grasshopper, Tekla, Autodesk Forma, Bentley iTwin and Trimble Connect. VIKTOR Desktop securely connects cloud-based AI and automation workflows with engineering software running locally, making it possible to automate processes that span multiple engineering tools. Cloud-based tools can connect directly through their APIs, while OAuth 2.0 authentication enables credentials to be encrypted and centrally stored rather than exposed in application code.</p>
<h2>Automate engineering workflows with AI agents</h2>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">VIKTOR AI can go beyond individual task automation. AI agents interpret an engineer's intent and orchestrate the applications, calculations, engineering tools and workflows needed to achieve the requested outcome. This allows AI to coordinate multi-step engineering processes that can adapt to different projects and inputs. Deterministic engineering calculations can be executed through validated VIKTOR applications instead of relying on a Large Language Model (LLM) for every calculation, helping make engineering results predictable, traceable and auditable.</p>
<h2>Scale AI safely across your organization</h2>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">For enterprise engineering organizations, VIKTOR provides the infrastructure needed to scale AI and automation beyond individual users. Built-in validation, version control, role-based permissions, audit trails, usage monitoring and AI cost visibility give organizations control over how engineering applications and AI are developed, shared and used. An enterprise Development, Testing, Acceptance and Production (DTAP) pipeline helps ensure applications move into production only after they have been reviewed and approved.</p>
<h2>Build on your engineering knowledge</h2>
<p class="isSelectedEnd">The platform brings together three layers of engineering knowledge: industry knowledge, VIKTOR's engineering automation knowledge and your organization's own knowledge. This includes engineering standards and norms, proven automation practices, company standards, project documents and intellectual property. This knowledge can be reused across applications and workflows, helping teams standardize processes, preserve knowledge and build on work that has already been done.</p>
<h2>Used by leading engineering companies</h2>
<p>VIKTOR is used by 35,000 engineers, with more than 30,000 engineering applications built on the platform. Engineering companies including Arup, WSP, AECOM, Arcadis, Sweco, VINCI, Buro Happold, Mott MacDonald, Jacobs, COWI and KBR use VIKTOR to automate engineering work and make engineering processes faster, more consistent and scalable.</p>

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