Digital Twins: Virtually Mirroring Physical Data
“A digital twin is a logical representation of an object or system that takes real-time data, which helps in decision-making.”
What is a digital twin?
A digital twin is a virtual model that represents the physical object.
For illustration, if you want to duly check the functionalities of a spacecraft, you can design the virtual model with different parameter specifications of physical spacecraft. Also you’ll be able to test different results of spacecraft performance grounded on their values. This will help the user to identify the issues that comes with physical object without directly testing it.
Benefits
- Improves product quality and productivity.
- Better customer satisfaction-Helps in identifying customer needs effectively and give predictive maintenance.
- Better Research & Development–Digital twins provide large data of different performance outcomes. This helps in better research and designing of product before actual development.
- High Efficiency–Digital twins help mirror and monitor production systems which result in greater efficiency throughout the entire manufacturing process.
Types of digital twins
Component twins/Parts twins:Component twins represents the basic simple units. Parts twins represents components of slightly less importance.
Asset twins:Two or more components combine to form an asset. Asset twins helps to study the interaction among components, hence provide high performance data that helps to test various actions of the component.
System or Unit twins:System or unit twins is a combination of different assets. It helps in identifying data about asset interactions that improve asset performance.
Process twins:Process twins helps to identify the workflow when systems are combined. It helps in determining precise timing schemes and influence overall performance.
Applications
Various applications of digital twins include:
- Structure building-It helps in designing large building structures and operations within that structures.
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Manufacturing-Helps in manufacturing works by furnishing data about products from design to delivery stages.
- Healthcare sector-Digital twins helps in furnishing diagnostic outcomes based on the sensor data collected hence perfecting quality of healthcare services.
- Automobile Industry-Cars contains different complex structures. Digital twins helps in identifying the performance and efficiency of these structures in detail.
- Power equipment-Large engines benefits by providing data about timely maintenance alerts.
Future scope
The future of digital twins is never ending as it provides huge data about the possible outcomes of physical objects that helps in perfecting effectiveness and performance.