Key Highlights
- Highlights various digital twin applications, including asset system decoding, advanced process control and automation system simulation, linked through online articles.
- Details how nuclear power plants benefit from digital twins for enhanced monitoring, control and predictive analytics, supported by comprehensive evaluation reports.
Polymer process modeling
This 3-minute video, “Pushing boundaries of digital transformation,” demonstrates how polymers manufacturer Covestro used Aveva Process Simulation software to eliminate process design, engineering and simulation inefficiencies. It implemented a single model for its asset lifecycle and all departments involved with process simulation.
Ten application examples
This website, “Digital twin applications,” covers basic aspects, but it also links to 10 online articles, including decoding asset systems, advanced process control (APC) at Boliden mining company, material handing chains, virtual drive tuning, simulation for electrical and process automation systems, interfacing pharmaceutical equipment with manufacturing execution systems (MES), and an electromagnetic flowmeter simulation.
Nuclear power predictions
This 42-page report, “Evaluation of digital twin modeling and simulation,” reports how digital twins can enable nuclear power plant (NPP) operations and lifecycles by contributing more data for improved monitoring, control supervision and security, as well as allowing better analyses, more accurate insights and predictions, and improved decision-making.
Gas turbine performance
This 56-minute video, “Digital twins for digital transformation,” discusses development of a gas-turbine digital twin for performance diagnostics and optimization by using Simulink Real-Time and Simulink PLC Coder software. It covers digital twin technology, cyber-physical systems and network connectivity, Core Data Transfer (DT) configuration, model-based calibration (MBC) and prognostics and health management (PhM) systems, and embedded, edge and cloud platforms. It’s on their website, where there are several other simulation-related videos.
There’s also a 9-minute “What is a digital twin,” video that’s Part 5 of a Matlab series on predictive maintenance. It covers modeling methods, including physics-based and data-driven.
From history to how-to
This online article, “A comprehensive guide to digital twin simulation for beginners” covers basic definitions and concepts, historical development, applicable technologies and operations, IoT infrastructure and sensors, application in different industries, and compares the differences between digital twins and simulations.
Agentic acts out
This 76-minute video, “Building agentic AI-powered digital twins for manufacturing operations,” covers how Sight Machine developed its Operator Agent solution with OpenUSD 3D scene-description and file-framework software, Nvidia Omniverse libraries, and Microsoft Azure. It also shows how Sight Machine and Kinetic Vision developers combine live production data, agentic AI recommendations, and physically accurate digital twins to develop insights that let users spot issues faster and optimize production lines.
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Design, optimize, add AI
These two whitepapers, 12-page “Supercharging industry transformation with comprehensive digital twin," and 15-page “AI and digital twin: turbocharging the digital enterprise,” cover essential simulation concepts, show users how to design, reproduce and optimize their production processes and products, and detail how to integrate AI tools to contextualize data, remove bottlenecks, improve model fidelity, and further speed up simulation and optimization.
Modeling and commissioning
This 60-minute webinar, “Hesco-Rockwell Emulate 3D,” includes application areas, demonstrations, experiments, testing, emulation, open CAD and control system connectivity.
Readiness and construction
This blog post, “How to implement digital twin technology in your manufacturing process: a step-by-step tutorial,” covers core components, assessing readiness, picking the right software, integrating with existing systems, construction and deployment, optimizing processes, and overcoming challenges.
Replicas rehearse decisions
This 6-minute video, “What is a digital twin” by Martin Keen, explores how virtual replicas of physical objects and systems can be used to make better decisions, improve efficiency, and drive innovation.
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