Not a new thing, but a new thing done this systematically. Like to see it also attached to general process and use AI pattern recognition and broader analytics to make plans for improvement. That's often done with maintenance now, but not much more.
How digital 'twins' are guiding the future of maintenance and manufacturing by Tom Cassauwers, From Horizon Magazine, Horizon: The EU Research & Innovation Magazine
As our world becomes more digitalised and connected, we can actually make a virtual copy of it. And such replicas are now being used to improve real world scenarios, from making aircraft production more accurate to preventing oil spills.
A digital twin is a virtual replica of a real life entity, such as a city or a factory, which often evolves in real-time along with its physical counterpart through data gathered through sensors. It can be used as a testing ground to simulate what happens under certain circumstances or provide alerts of potential problems thanks to predictive algorithms.
A virtual replica of a city might, for example, use all kinds of data sources, from city sensors to meteorological data, to simulate a city's transport system. A simulation could then analyse the effect on air pollution of making a specific zone car-free.
"A digital twin is a concept that describes many things," said Thomas Leurent, CEO and co-founder of Akselos, a Swiss company that builds digital twins for the energy sector. "It can be a 3-D image that automatically reflects a physical object (for high-precision manufacturing), but it can also be a model that predicts when maintenance of an oil platform needs to take place." ... "
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