BROWSING: digital twin

Digital threads and digital twins are the foundation stones for digital transformation. In manufacturing, they enable ways to assess processes and products in a virtual environment – without the need for physical iterations, and with huge impacts in terms of cost, efficiency, productivity, and...

Digital threads and digital twins are the foundation stones for digital transformation. In manufacturing, they enable ways to assess processes and products in a virtual environment – without the need for physical iterations, and with huge impacts in terms of cost, efficiency, productivity, and...

Digital twin and digital twin drive process improvement within and beyond a factory Digital transformation is a broad term that means many things to many people. But, at its core, digital transformation is a technology-enabled process that facilitates the capture and analysis of operational data,...

The National University of Singapore (NUS) and Singapore Technologies (ST) Engineering have signed a $6.6 million deal on a multi-year research programme to build a “people-centric smart future” for Singapore. A press statement from the pair says the research is for “Singapore, and beyond”,...

Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) has started on a four-year project to construct a digital twin of its Pulau Bukom petrochemical manufacturing site in Singapore. On completion in 2024, and in pilot between times, the virtual replica of the Pulau Bukom facility will be the...

Digital twin growth led by automotive, energy and manufacturing sectors At a high level, the goal of investing in the internet of things is to capture and analyze data from the physical world--machines, people, products, nature, everything--in pursuit of process efficiencies. For a manufacturer, for...

Siemens and SAP have agreed to offer each other’s industrial production software as complementary solutions in an integrated Industry 4.0 offer, enabling a digital thread between lifecycle management and business operations. SAP will offer Siemens’ cloud-based Teamcenter software to customers as the core foundation for...

France-based industrial software provider Dassault Systèmes and China-based facilities management company Aden Group are combining their digital twin and modular architecture platforms to fast-track hospital construction. The arrangement is in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dassault Systèmes was involved with China’s Central-South Architectural Design Institute...

How augmented reality (AR) is transforming production and raising the influence of workers in the robot age.

5G will create a paradigm wherein every person has a digital twin Speaking with the Wall Street Journal in a recent podcast, Qualcomm President Cristiano Amon laid out how he sees 5G enabling a variety of new consumer-facing experiences marked by higher data speeds, reduced...