A Digital Twin is a mirror of an entity. This can be a physical entity or a process, an organisation. The degree of mirroring, depends on the objective. You may want to mirror the functionality and shape of a turbine but the color of the various components are completely irrelevant …
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Making a digital twin visible is not a piece of cake. Although computer graphics has made enormous progress as we can see in gaming, at industry level, differently from a Consumer Metaverse, the rendering of the Digital Twin should convey a very precise meaning and has to be contextualised both …
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Digital Transformation is not about having data representing a physical asset. It is about exploiting those data as if you were exploiting a physical asset. This means flanking the data with execution capabilities to have them become alive. This is usually done using Digital Twins. Again, this is becoming a …
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Few days ago I was invited to give a seminar on the Industrial Metaverse at the EIT Manufacturing hub in Milan. I started by posing that the first, necessary, step towards an Industrial Metaverse, IM, is the Digital Transformation of the company. This will give life to Digital Twins along …
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There is no doubt that Metaverse exploded from a seldom used word to the talk of the town, courtesy of … Meta, I would say, in the last year. As shown in the graphic, the Metaverse is rooted in the past, at least some of its components were alreadt around …
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The IEEE FDC Metaverse Initiative has been addressing a broad range of issues related to the Metaverse, from standardisation aspects (that obviously include the definition of what is meant with Metaverse) to the technologies that are needed (and enabling it) to the business opportunities opened by a shift to the …
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Industrial Metaverse – Market forecast In this and following posts I will focus on the Industrial Metaverse, since it is the one I am exposed to both in the IEEE Metaverse Initiative and in a number of initiatives, including The Anitec Assinform Metaverse working group, in the EIT Manufacturing Industrial …
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Following last year’s report “Fixing our Future” providing a vision for the Future of Manufacturing with a 2030 horizon, the EIT Manufacturing has released a new report on Future European Manufacturing System. The guiding principles for the future are easy to state: People. Planet and Profit, the first one emphasising …
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The Digital Reality Initiative is presenting a IEEE Future Tech Forum Roundtable on Sustainable Manufacturing moderated by Craig Bauhaus, Industry executive in Manufacturing at Microsoft. It will be held as a Virtual Event on Tuesday June 28th, at 12 noon New York time, 6pm Central European Time. You can register …
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The future of Digital Twins remains to be written, although what is going on now and what is going to happen in the coming 2-3 years is pretty straightforward. DTs are a reality in manufacturing and their use will further expand to cover more equipment and processes. The association of …
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