Among the many new terms that have entered the digital transformation vernacular over the past several years, the “digital twin” is perhaps the most complex and multifaceted. While it’s relatively easy to conceptualize a digital representation of a physical entity, that’s pretty much where the easy part ends.Indeed, to be truly useful in an industrial context, the digital twin of a production asset or even an entire facility must retain not only the original design data used to create it, but also bear the unique and idiosyncratic characteristics that theoretically identical products evolve based on their own particular history.An effective digital twin then…
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