The two key elements of a digital twin are a dynamic simulation model and data that reflects the current state of a live system. With the model and the data, it is possible to build powerful digital twin software for experimentation, analysis, and communication, so that you can ask what-if questions, understand system behavior, and verify at multiple levels.
Digital twin technology helps secure and develop business processes, with industries such as manufacturing and supply chain already enjoying their benefits. It provides insights that are easy to understand and to communicate – helping to establish trust and support decision-making.
Using a digital twin enhances insight and understanding of how your systems work and interact, helping evaluate parameters and interdependencies. As a virtual environment, a digital twin also allows low-cost and no-risk possibilities for experimentation. The main reasons for using a digital twin are based on them providing:
AnyLogic is a powerful tool for creating and integrating a digital twin.
Learn how to create a self-configuring material handling digital twin from this webinar recording with an accompanying simulation model.
Presented by Dr. Benjamin Schumann in three chapters, the webinar covers how to automatically configure machines, products, conveyors, and automatic guided vehicles (AGV). Benjamin Schumann, Ph.D., is a simulation expert with over ten years of experience applying simulation and AnyLogic.
The Agent-based Turbine Operations & Maintenance (ATOM) model is a digital twin simulation model developed by decisionLab Ltd and Siemens. The digital twin emulates the global maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) operations of Siemens’ aero-derivative gas turbine division. Driven by live data already available within the...
Terminal San Giorgio in Genoa, Italy, planned the reorganization of their facility’s layout and operations, aiming to increase its throughput and make the terminal safer. They needed a port simulator – a digital twin of the terminal, which would serve as a testbed for container yard planning and help predict how the changes...
Alstom is a global leader in the transportation sector. The company offers trains, signaling, maintenance services, as well as integrated transport systems. Among Alstom’s products are the TGV and Eurostar high-speed trains. The company has 105 sites with more than 34,000 employees worldwide. Its net income is €475 mln. Alstom...
CNH Industrial is a global leader in capital goods. It is financially controlled by the Italian investment company Exor and is comprised of 12 brands, including Case, New Holland, and Iveco. Through its brands, CNHI designs, produces, and sells a wide range of agricultural, industrial, and commercial vehicles and...
Partnering with SimWell and the Simon Fraser University Beedie School of Business, the BCMEA created a digital twin of the Vancouver longshore labor dispatch. The digital twin supports medium and long-term strategies and predicts trends in demographics and technologies, modeling scenarios and enabling more informed decision...
Transocean is one of the largest offshore drilling companies that provides rig-based well construction services worldwide. Offshore oil and gas well construction is a complex process that takes a considerable amount of time. It demands certain sequences of both manual and semi-automated operations carried out in unison, as...
From 2020, due to the global pandemic, airports saw decreased passenger numbers around the world. As this pandemic starts to subside, airports are looking to increase their traffic numbers. Therefore, Montreal International Airport enlisted GSS, a Canadian based consultancy firm, dealing primarily with Airports, Aerospace &...
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica is an international specialist in the field of digital system integration. The company has more than 11,000 employees in more than 50 offices around the world. One of its flagship projects is an ecosystem of platforms that enable other technologies to interact with each other – exchanging...
RUSCON is one of the major container shipping companies in the CIS region. The company needed a container yard planning solution to modernize one of the rail container terminal and determine maximum capacity of the whole facility and its components. It sought the expertise of container yard simulation specialists from Dilibrium...
One of the largest turbine manufacturers in the world had a very promising five-year portfolio of gas turbines to produce and was planning an optimistic 30% net margin. The company’s portfolio consisted of over 100 programs, made of 1000’s of projects, with each project composed of a number of phases. Relying on its good...
Accenture’s Applied Intelligence HSA team delivered an Order to Delivery (OTD) forecasting system for a US-based exercise equipment brand that was affected by COVID-19 related supply chain disruptions. The forecasting system, based on a supply chain digital twin, increased OTD forecasting accuracy by 57% and reduced costs by...
From this white paper, learn more about how digital twins are created, deployed, and used.
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