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DIGITAL-TWINS-DEFINITION

WHAT IS A DIGITAL TWIN?

Concepts and Applications
In a few words:

“It is a virtual model of a process, a product or a service.” [1]

According to NASA:

“It is an integrated multiphysics, multiscale, probabilistic simulation of an as-built

vehicle or system that uses the best available physical models, sensor updates,
fleet history, etc., to mirror the life of its corresponding flying twin.” [2]

According to Institute for Information Management in Engineering

(IMI):

“It is a virtual representation, an embodiment of an asset of any type, material or

non-material – including everything from power turbines to services and
maintenance.” [3]

According to Gartner:

“A digital twin is a digital representation of a real-world entity or system. The

implementation of a digital twin is an encapsulated software object or model that
mirrors a unique physical object, process, organization, person or other abstraction.
Data from multiple digital twins can be aggregated for a composite view across a
number of real-world entities, such as a power plant or a city, and their related
processes.” [4]

In our words:

A system composed by a model powered by data to generate useful insights. [5]

A model can be anything, from a 3D diagram of a building to an equation of motion,

including stochastic equations, algorithms and so on. It only matters the model be
able to capture the aspects that contribute to answer your questions. The best
model is the simplest one that solves your problem. We are talking about a
software implementation able to represent the key aspects of your system or
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process. Automation of stimulus and analysis is also very important to be able to

obtain the benefits of the development of a digital twin. It is a powerful tool to
support the decision makers, once you can get a better vision of the future.

Applications:

There is a huge number of potential applications of the digital twins concept. As a

rule of thumb, you need a digital twin if you need to have an insight about a future
behavior. A few examples:

• Systems Development
• Manufacturing Analytics
• Business Intelligence (BI)
• Building Information Management
• Predictive Maintenance
• Health
• Production forecasting

How can We help you?

We help you to accelerate the deployment of your custom digital twin application.
With our framework, you can easily launch an application that runs on the cloud,
creating functional digital twins that automatically collect, consolidate and analyze
data, generating meaningful insights presented in amazing dashboards. And if you
need assistance in any step of your project, our team will be glad to help.

References

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2017/03/06/what-is-digital-twin-
technology-and-why-is-it-so-important/#67b3e41e2e2a
[2] NASA Modeling, Simulation, Information Technology & Processing Roadmap in
2010
[3] https://www.iosb.fraunhofer.de/servlet/is/14330/visIT_1-26-03-2018_web.pdf
[4] https://www.gartner.com/en/information-technology/glossary/digital-twin
[5] http://msdconsult.com.br/2020/07/06/o-que-sao-gemeos-digitais/
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