A quick glance at any newspaper around the world will reveal stories of drought, excessive temperatures—cold and hot—water shortages, extreme […]... Read more →
02/13/2023
09/22/2022
Overcoming the Obstacles to Implementing Reality Capture for Digital Twins
Read the Digital Twin Consortium white paper Reality Capture: A Digital Twin Foundation Reality capture is a critical component to the […]... Read more →
Posted at 3:51 pm in Infrastructure,Manufacturing,Science, | Permalink
09/13/2022
Cognitive Digital Twins: Digital Twins That Learn By Themselves, Foresee the Future, and Act Accordingly
By Dr. Perin Ünal, Managing Partner, Teknopar This blog defines cognitive digital twins and offers a sample digital […]... Read more →
Posted at 12:30 am in Manufacturing, | Permalink
Tags: Cognitive Digital Twins, DIGITAL TWIN CONSORTIUM,
03/21/2022
Strategic Guidance to Reduce the Risk of Digital Twin Adoption
In my role at Microsoft, I represent the company on several standards organizations and consortia, including the Digital Twin Consortium (DTC). Microsoft was one of the founders of the DTC two years ago with the intent to reduce confusion in the marketplace about the definition of digital twins, to accelerate the market, and address interoperability needs. The resulting ecosystem is capturing best practices, defining case studies, and driving the innovation of digital twin technology.... Read more →
Posted at 1:34 am in Business,Definition, | Permalink
Tags: DEFINITION, DIGITAL TWIN CONSORTIUM, OPEN-SOURCE,
02/28/2022
Digital Twin Interoperability Framework
Digital Twin Consortium video describes the digital twin system interoperability approach.... Read more →
Posted at 10:58 am in Definition,Infrastructure, | Permalink
01/23/2022
Machine Learning Unlocks New Real-Time Applications for Digital Twins
The digital twin concept encompasses use cases for both product lifecycle management (PLM) and for real-time streaming analytics in live systems. The latter is becoming ever more important as our society increasingly relies on a fast-growing population of IoT devices. With billions of smart devices constantly generating data, the task of tracking their telemetry and extracting real-time intelligence has become extremely challenging. Applying the digital twin concept to real-time analytics for IoT promises to address this challenge by revealing real-time insights, enabling immediate responses to emerging issues, and maximizing overall situational awareness... Read more →
Posted at 3:10 am in Definition,Web/Tech, | Permalink
Tags: DIGITAL TWIN CONSORTIUM, SCALEOUT SOFTWARE,
11/29/2021
The Need for a Simple Scalable System Interoperability Mechanism
Digital Twin Consortium created the Digital Twin System Interoperability Framework to unlock significant value in complex distributed computing systems such as digital twins. We invite you to review, challenge, refine, and adopt this framework, and we hope it proves helpful in designing computing systems that improve our lives.... Read more →
Posted at 4:33 am in Definition,Infrastructure,Web/Tech, | Permalink
Tags: DIGITAL TWIN, DIGITAL TWIN CONSORTIUM, DTC,
11/05/2021
An Introduction to the Next Generation of Digital Twins
A holistic view of products, processes, or even the whole value chain to enable closed-loop engineering, cross-company digital services, and more is a crucial success factor for any data-driven organization. The next generation of digital twin technologies will play a key role in standardizing and automating business processes across current boundaries of systems and companies. This blog post introduces the general concept behind digital twins and the latest standards in this area.... Read more →
Posted at 6:16 am in Definition,Strategy,Web/Tech, | Permalink
Tags: DIGITAL TWIN, DIGITAL TWIN CONSORTIUM, TRIBUTECH SOLUTIONS GMBH,
10/04/2021
Leveraging Interoperable Life Cycle Twins for Manufacturing
Nicolas Waern, founder, WINNIIO, and co-chair of the Digital Twin Consortium Manufacturing Working Group talks about the benefits of digital twins for manufacturing.... Read more →
Posted at 1:31 am in Manufacturing, | Permalink
Tags: DIGITAL TWIN, DIGITAL TWIN CONSORTIUM, WINNIO,
09/20/2021
Strategy Behind the Infrastructure Digital Twin Maturity Model
In this short video, the Co-Chairs of the Digital Twin Consortium's Infrastructure Working Group explain the design and intent of the recently published first draft of their Infrastructure Maturity Model... Read more →
Posted at 3:12 am in Infrastructure,Web/Tech, | Permalink
Tags: DIGITAL TWIN, DIGITAL TWIN CONSORTIUM,
06/17/2021
Increasing and Broadening Accountability for Building Performance
Architects and designers deliver design intent and are not contractually responsible for actual building performance. How can digital twins increase the accountability of architects, engineers, designers, and everyone downstream (commissioning agents or system integrators) for the actual building performance?... Read more →
Posted at 5:59 am in Building and Construction,Manufacturing,Web/Tech, | Permalink
Tags: DIGITAL TWIN, DIGITAL TWIN CONSORTIUM, PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY,
06/12/2021
Increasing Robustness to Demand Uncertainty with Digital Twins
Standard forecasting and planning tools enable manufacturers to make predictions and generate action plans based on knowledge of their demand at a point in time. These plans often represent ideal cases, and their robustness needs assessment and, even better, maximization. This article explains how, thanks to real-time monitoring and simulation experiments, Digital Twins can help organizations build robust plans and implement resilient strategies in the face of high demand volatility.... Read more →
Posted at 4:37 am in Business,Manufacturing,Web/Tech, | Permalink
Tags: COSMO TECH, DIGITAL TWIN, DIGITAL TWIN CONSORTIUM,
06/09/2021
Digital Twin Models for Predictive Earth
A new perspective hypothesis termed “Stellar Transformer” proposes “electromagnetic” energy between celestial objects be considered much like the induction transformer process that steps down household energy from the power company. The Predictive Earth Digital Twin can provide a continuously learning system that uses AI and machine learning algorithms to capture and predict changes in state and configuration of larger solar systems affecting the earth-sun induction processes of the Stellar Transformer... Read more →
05/27/2021
The Strategy Behind the Digital Twin Glossary
Digital Twin Consortium member Sean Olcott discusses the value of a digital twin glossary and the importance of digital twin terminology.... Read more →
Posted at 3:20 am in Definition,Strategy, | Permalink
Tags: DIGITAL TWIN, DIGITAL TWIN CONSORTIUM, DIGITAL TWIN GLOSSARY, DIGITAL TWIN TERMINOLOGY,
04/21/2021
Digital Twin: Cities and their Digital Doppelgangers
Cities have become early adopters of digital twin technology, and, as such, city planners are using virtual models to gain a competitive edge. Digital twins are disrupting the way capital projects and infrastructure are planned, built, and operated. The technology’s enhanced predictability and performance capabilities attribute to this disruption. The most significant use case of this innovative technology is capital projects during the development and operation of cities. Here, city planners, architects, constructors, operators, and even road and utility authorities can maximize the potential of the technology. As more global cities, including the world’s largest cities, begin adopting digital twins, the industry must examine how they impact large-scale projects and how this impact will develop in the future.... Read more →
Posted at 4:42 am in Building and Construction,Smart Cities,Web/Tech, | Permalink
Tags: ASITE, DIGITAL TWIN, DIGITAL TWIN CONSORTIUM,
04/08/2021
Digital Twins: An Essential Technology for Capital Projects
Digital twins are enhancing the way capital projects and infrastructure are planned, built, and operated globally. However, despite their obvious benefits – including optimized decision-making and better project outcomes – and successful use cases, digital twins remain a new and mostly untapped resource, especially on bigger projects where they can be most impactful.... Read more →
Posted at 6:38 am in Building and Construction,Business, | Permalink
Tags: ASITE, DIGITAL TWIN, DIGITAL TWIN CONSORTIUM,