Tag Archives: digital twins

To the best of my knowledge, Singapore was the first city to create, and operate, a digital twin mirroring the city assets and processes. It started in 2014 and involved several companies to first model what was existing (digital model), then connect the physical (part of the) city to the …

3. The future of packaging Packaging is everywhere, from the source of raw materials down to our homes. Think about how many “boxes” we open every day (yes, including the milk cardboard!) and consequently how many we throw away every day. Packaging comes in many forms, as shown in the …

As I mentioned in a previous post I gave two talks on the Metaverse and Industrial Metaverse last week and I got plenty of questions. In this, and in the following post, I am reporting on a few of them attaching my answers and look forward to get your answers …

Conclusions: don’t lock yourself in How much should a company (industry) open up its metaverse? Clearly it is a space containing valuable assets (both digital and physical) and the relationships and interactions among the various components are themselves a value. Hence, it is no surprise that in the same way …

Enabling  the Industrial Metaverse  – The next economy As it  happened, and happens, with the Digital Transformation  -DX-, industry adopting the metaverse as their new environment have to re-consider their business models and evaluate the economic implication. The digital space and the metaverse, includes a digital space, has potentially no …

Enabling  the Industrial Metaverse  – Interoperability I have already pointed out  that today we have many proto-metaverses and that my feeling, shared by most observers, is that we will have many metaverses in the future. Hence, the effort shall be not to tray to converge on a single metaverse, rather …

Enabling  the Industrial Metaverse  –   Digital Twins fidelity A Digital Twin is not exactly like the real thing: you cannot wash your laundry with the Digital Twin of the washing machine! Yet, you can do plenty of things with the digital twin of an object, even something that you …

Enabling  the Industrial Metaverse  – Connectivity structure I already  addressed the crucial technologies that are needed in the operation of the Industrial Metaverse. Let me now take a more system wide perspective, starting with the connectivity structure of the Metaverse. Although we already have several concrete examples of industrial Metaverse …

Industrial Metaverse – Sustainability – ii According to the MIT-Siemens report the Industrial Metaverse -IM- can support sustainability in various ways: The IM can assist in decreasing the use of physical resources by emulating them in the digital space and making use of them only at the very last moment. …

Industrial Metaverse – Sustainability Industry is using 37% of the global energy, generates 20% of CO2 emission and recycle only  13% of its products material. This is not something to be proud… However, according to Cedrik Neike, CEO of Siemens Digital Industry, moving to the industrial metaverse can contribute significantly …