What is a Digital Twin?
A digital twin is a virtual (digital) replica of a physical object, system, or process that simulates its real-world counterpart and is used for analysis, monitoring, or optimisation.
What are the Benefits of Using a Digital Twin?
Using a digital twin enables enhanced real-time monitoring, predictive maintenance, and improved decision-making, driving optimisation of operations and reduction in costs.
What Types of Things Can Digital Twins Be Used For?
Digital twins can be used for a variety of applications, such as optimising operational production lines by simulating equipment performance, managing smart cities by monitoring infrastructure and energy use, enhancing healthcare by personalising treatment plans through patient-specific models, and improving automotive design by testing virtual prototypes before physical manufacturing. Digital twins are also used in the resources industry as a tool to familiarise the fly in / fly-out workforce with site conditions & processes ahead of them arriving on site to undertake their duties.
What Kind of Data or Models are Required to Start Building a Digital Twin?
Digital twins require a 3D virtual environment. We primarily rely on any existing industry-standard CAD (or similar) models and/or engineering drawings of your assets to help construct the 3D environment. We then need to bind this to your data, so access to your chosen data sources helps us ensure integration of the 3D assets with their corresponding data.
Can the InDI Digital Twin be Accessed by Remote Teams and On Different Devices?
Yes, the InDI Digital Twins can be accessed remotely and are compatible for viewing on PC desktops and using VR devices.