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In today’s manufacturing world, time-to-market is key to stay competitive. This also includes fast setup and commissioning times, real-time knowledge about what is going on at the production floor, and virtual planning .webp)
of production processes that can be easily realized in the real world. Digital twins are an important enabler for these solutions.
This year’s Forum will be held on May 17-18, 2022. The track session on Digital Twins and Smart Connected Machines will host various user presentations that bring you closer to this increasingly popular technology.
Digital Twin Definition
A digital twin is a dynamic, virtual representation of a physical entity using real-world data synchronized from multiple sources. The representation can take a form ranging from a mathematical algorithm (physics, machine learning, and/or AI) to a 4D model. Uses span across preventing bad events, improved decision support, and cross-functional collaboration. Each digital twin has these key aspects:
- The physical asset – equipment, unit, line, or plant
- Virtual representation of the asset
- Data federation or continuously synchronized data transfer
- Integration with related applications for automated business processes
There are two major categories of digital twins in the discrete and process industries, and smart cities:
Performance digital twin for maintenance and operations that provide predictive maintenance (PdM), improved equipment operating performance, and/or energy management.
Project digital twin for engineering data and documents that involve an enterprise application for information sharing, business process automation, and collaboration using a 3D model as the user interface and navigation for a plant or city.
The nature of a digital twin tends to change as the target asset scales up from small to large. Small twins are often an algorithm for predictive maintenance (PdM), equipment operating performance (operator guidance), and/or energy management. Plant or city twins usually involve an enterprise application for information sharing, business process automation, and collaboration using a 3D model as the user interface and navigation.