What is a Digital Twin and How it Can Help You?

Digital twins allow for the remote visualization, monitoring and operation of their physical-twin counterparts such as assets, systems or processes. What exactly qualifies as a digital twin is both evolving and debatable. The technology itself is broad in scope and can be used to optimize design, streamline supply chains, perform predictive maintenance, plan staged decommissioning, and much more.

Digital twins’ features and uses are wide-ranging, specific and customizable. These software solutions, however, are universally beneficial throughout the entire asset or process life cycle: systematizing decision making, enhancing safety, ensuring compliance, streamlining operations and reducing costs.

Digital Twins and Engineers of the Future

Digital twin technology, even if one includes the prospective use of AI, isn’t expected to eviscerate the engineer’s role but rather to modernize the engineer's mindset.

The more sophisticated industrial-facility digital twins have the ability to perform complex calculations, metabolizing swaths of data from a range of sources, reflecting both real-time conditions and possible scenarios. From cataloging information to?3D visualization?and beyond, digital twin software is an extension of the engineer.

Humans need sleep, computers don’t. Engineers are fallible, particularly under stress and fatigue. With digital twin products able to do the heavy lifting – mining for data and even predicting failures and problems in advance – the engineer steps away from crisis mode into ensuring asset reliability and best practices.

It is indeed an engineering marvel to metabolize inhuman amounts of data into a few keystrokes. The engineer’s role may well transform from one of troubleshooting into the management of change, as asset and operational oversight steps into the future using digital twins.

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This article was first published on MODS Energy Industry Blog?https://blog.mods.solutions/the-evolution-of-the-digital-twin