Tag Archives: digital twins

As  outlined in the previous post(s) the Big Players are leveraging  on their huge availability of natural language repositories and have been able to create algorithms (transformers) to exploit them. The training requires immense processing power, difficult to estimate the cost, but it is in the million $. According to …

The area of Pharma has consolidated its approach and processes in the last fifty years as the tools for designing, testing (trialling) and commercialising new drugs adapted in synch with the regulatory framework. The time to market, measured from the idea of “discovering” a new drug to its commercial availability …

The  University of Toronto is  among the few that  has a full course on Digital Twins for Intelligent Buildings targeting undergraduates.  This shouldn’t be a surprise since Toronto is among the cities that have taken the decision to adopt Digital Twins to monitor and manage the city, and its infrastructures. …

In the previous posts in this series I discussed a potential new approach to search for information, shifting from the acquisition of data (search engine based on keywords) to the acquisition of meaning (semantic search engines) and then on to the search for “useful” information, that is info that can …

I am finding myself writing more and more about artificial intelligence, its progress and the growing fields of applications. It is not just me. Reading the McKinsey  Digital Tech Highlights from 2022 in eight charts AI makes to the top. As shown in the graphic, AI has been spreading to …

Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating to an Industry Session at ICCE2023, organised by Kathy Grise (FDC) in conjunction with CTSoc (Consumer Technology Society). The topic for the Panel was “How Megatrends drive Innovations in Consumer Technology”. I focussed on the impact I expect from the Megatrend that I …

YouTUbe contains a tremendous amount of video clips on any imaginable subject. You can use them to learn basically anything. I, for one, have been using YouTube clips to learn to play piano. It might not be as good as having a human teacher by your side but it works …

I attended the World Manufacturing Forum that focused on the redesign of Supply Chains in the new Era of Manufacturing. A very interesting gathering with an audience, mostly European based manufacturing industry, that is facing a changing environment: Political pressure to pursue sustainability Political and societal pressure to maintain and …

The chip shortage resulting from the pandemic has hit so hard and has become such a danger for Society that the big markets, EU, US, have taken steps to radically change the landscape  to prevent future disruptions. Part of the efforts is towards the creation of local chip manufacturing capacity, …

A very nice report is out from McKinsey connecting the current use of Digital Twins in the Enterprise to the future evolution of enterprises in the (industrial) Metaverse. If you are interested in this area read it. Let me quote “verbating” the opening statement: Organizations are set to look dramatically …