Digital twins are poised to transform manufacturing processes and offer new ways to reduce costs, monitor assets, optimize maintenance, reduce downtime and enable the creation of connected products. The digital twin model, although not new, is entering manufacturing and other industries fast. IoT is one of the drivers. Digital twins in an industrial, non-academical, context.
When you start hooking up IoT endpoints, devices and physical assets to data sensing and gathering systems which are turned into insights and ultimately into optimized/automated processes and business outcomes, as we do with the Industrial Internet of Things (among other things), there are quite some new possibilities that arise, to say the least.
A digital twin is a living model that drives a business outcome (Colin J. Parris, GE)
Even if we’re only really still seeing the tip of the possibility iceberg, sometimes it requires a bit of imagination to understand these opportunities. Digital twins are a perfect example of this and key in the Industry 4.0 vision and the Industrial Internet. Digital twins are definitely poised to deliver upon their many promises in manufacturing and beyond. A clear token of that is the growing support of digital twin use cases in Industrial IoT platforms.
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