The "Digital Twins" is an excellent example of the transformation of physical data into digital data and is key to the Industry 4.0 vision and the Industrial Internet. In this article, we examined digital twins, which are virtual representations of physical products.
What is a Digital Twin?
In recent years we have witnessed a 'digital transformation' in many areas of our lives and this transformation has created profound changes in our societies. The way we track, collaborate and communicate data or transactions has been replaced and enhanced by digital technology. Previous waves of digitization; It was transforming the digitization process for records and communications, our written texts, payment checks into digital objects, and this was not a result of digitization that left permanent products in our lives. Sending or reading a text from a digital device actually created more indifference. When it comes to digitizing objects today, digitizing objectsdoes not disappear, it continues to exist and work. Therefore, new generation technologies are needed in this new digital wave branch. It is a dynamic, learning and interactive technology that pairs digital objects with physical objects.
This matching technology was tested by NASA research in the early days of space exploration. NASA was doing research that involved the imperative to design products that travel far beyond the ability to see, track, or manipulate immediately. NASA's innovation is the Digital Twin of the physics system, a virtual system governed by physics with the laws of physics underneath it; It was a complete digital model that could be run, simulated and analysed.
A product's digital twin is a virtual copy of the product that exhibits its behavior in the real physical world. Digital twins help us spot problems, test new settings, simulate all kinds of scenarios , analyze what you need to analyze, actually pretty much anything we need to do in the physical world on the virtual product. The idea of the Digital Twin is now Digitization of the physical world is becoming a new technology choice. Digital twins essentially provide a combination of data and intelligence representing the structure, context and behavior of any physical system, an interface that enables to understand the past and current operation and to make predictions for the future. These are very powerful digital objects that can be used to optimize the physical world, significantly improving operational performance and business processes. The digital twin is the bridge between the physical and digital worlds for us.
Internet of Things and Digital Twins
The Internet of Things helps us generate our digital twin model by generating the data needed to transform our digital twin into a true twin that fully reflects our physical characteristics. However, today we can see that digital twins are predominantly used in the Internet of Things, engineering and manufacturing. When we look at aircraft engines or products involving more complex and technology-intensive physical assets such as industrial robots with IoT, we can understand why we need to create a digital twin. Testing on a digital twin created with data from complex products that are costly and difficult to test in real life allows us to test the product in an easy way before presenting it to the physical world.
Problems Solved by Digital Twins
The integration of the physical and digital worlds in a way that brings a new perspective to people solves many important problems.
Design and Engineering: The impact of various design alternatives can be easily explored to deal with complex product requirements, rapid development cycles, coordination, and simulations and testing can be done to ensure product designs will meet the requirement.
Production: It is understandable how an anticipated change in a manufacturing process to meet quality and efficiency demands can affect cost or schedule.
Operations and Service: To cope with demands for uptime, worker safety and higher productivity, technicians can be informed about the current operating status, how to apply appropriate maintenance procedures, what problem they are able to solve.
Required Considerations for the Implementation of Digital Twins
If you are considering applying digital twins to your business, there are a few key aspects to consider:
► Connected products require a digital twin that not only meets the needs of those responsible for designing and operating the 'product', but also extends product life, not just from an engineering or operational standpoint.
► You need analysis at every stage of the lifecycle to make improvements at every point of the system.
► Digital Twins require deep industry expertise and knowledge in functional areas when taken in an industry context.
At the LiveWorx 2015 industrial IoT leaders event, Michael M. Campbell unveiled the idea of digital twins, demonstrating the setup that PTC is building using a bicycle. It is a predictable fact that Digital Gemini will occupy an important area in our lives in the future.
Digital twins "living" models drive business results. Another video from Colin J. Parris, Vice President of Software Research at GE Global Research Center, takes us on the journey of the digital twin concept is shown below.
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