On Autodesk Tandem

My continued look at Autodesk's Tandem Digital Twin Solution.  Look for more posts here on digital twins.

DIGITAL TWIN FOR SMARTER OPERATIONS

Autodesk Tandem

Autodesk Tandem™ digital twin solution is here to free the data, to organize the data, and to standardize the data. The platform enables project teams to deliver an effortless handover, resulting in smarter operations for owners.

What is Autodesk Tandem?

This platform harnesses BIM data to create a digital twin of a facility. At the end of a project, your team can deliver to owners a comprehensive digital handover of easily accessible and insightful data that makes for ready-to-go operations.

Diagram of building phases: plan, design, build and operate.

How does Autodesk Tandem work?

It federates the data created during a project into one comprehensive digital replica. From planning to operations, it enables project teams to specify and capture data throughout a project’s lifecycle, so they can deliver a digital handover to the owner for better facility operations.

How does Autodesk Tandem help your project teams?

The digital solution empowers AEC firms to harness data. About 80% of the lifetime cost of a facility is in operations. By harnessing all the data created during a project, you deliver more value to customers. Autodesk Tandem enables more efficient operations, reduces waste, and lowers maintenance costs.

What goes into creating a digital twin handover?

Autodesk Tandem allows for a more integrated workflow involving the following stages:

1. Specify  Set up, track, manage, and define the data requirements most relevant to your project and organize them to best suit your needs.

2. Capture  Collect and aggregate the data required for your digital handover from all involved project teams and contributors into one digital hub.

3. Verify Validate that all the data is complete and accurate for an effortless digital handover.  ... '

Autodesk and Digital Twins

 Have been connected with Autodesk when it primarily advanced drafting and visualization capabilities, via a number of tools we used.  See now that they are working with the concept of Digital Twins, launching the Tandem platform.   https://www.autodesk.com/solutions/digital-twin/autodesk-tandem     

 A natural connection, visualization is a form of modeling to better understand something complex.    We even used their drafting programs to support simulation applications.  ...  As you can see Digital Twins.  

Autodesk has been on a tear,  in Venturebeat, expanding its support for digital twins across the building industry. For starters, Autodesk launched Tandem, a digital twin platform that promises to connect the dots between project owners and architectural, engineering, and contracting (AEC) teams. The company hopes these initiatives will make it easier to convert mounds of disorganized data into a comprehensive digital replica of the components, systems, and spaces in a facility.

“We believe an increased demand for digital twins by owners and operators of buildings and infrastructure will create new market opportunities for digital technologies and digitization of the AEC industry,” said Bob Bray, senior director and general manager of Autodesk Tandem.

The company also acquired Innovyze, a water infrastructure modeling and simulation tool leader, for $1 billion. Innovyze software helps over 3,000 water agencies model fundamental components of water infrastructure. Better simulation tools are growing in importance as water agencies grapple with the impact of droughts accelerated by climate change.

“The acquisition accelerates Autodesk’s digital twin strategy and creates a clearer path to a more sustainable and digitized water industry,” Bray said.

The company’s overall direction was further amplified last month when Autodesk acquired Upchain, which makes product lifecycle management (PLM) and product data management tools. This partnership could also make it easier to manage digital twins of the products and systems that get integrated into new construction projects.

Notably, this move also allows Autodesk to expand beyond construction into the market for other types of digital twins solutions that is led by PLM giants like Siemens, PTC, and Dassault.  ... '