In this post, we publish the White paper PCIC 2021 Digital Twin : What is this animal
Digital twin (DTW) is today a buzzword in the industry and everyone has a different understanding, comprehensive definition of what it is and what it is for.
The purpose of this article is to explain/define what is a digital twin, to introduce the different types of DTW, with some illustration (aerospace & building).
In a second part, the prerequisites in an engineering organisation to reach the maturity of being able to do a DTW are described (integrated tools, data driven
organisation…) and how to manage DTW during a project execution (from front end engineering to hand over to operation, with the added complexity of change orders).
In a third part, the document will focus on digital twin usage for industrial operation:
● What are the customers/operation expectations from engineering : easy single access to the complete project documentation (3D, 2D, process and technical specifications, operational manual, maintenance data and PM linked to MMS…), and to the process simulation part,
● What needs to be done for the real time process modeling part (with real time data acquisition and real time data reconciliation)
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