After the previous posts discussion on the evolution of digital twins, from -basically- an academic point of view with a separation into stages and types (DT, PDT, CDT, OPDT, Hybrid…) and before looking at the further expected evolution it makes sense to take a look at how, today in 2022, …
Read More »Digital Twins at work II
Following on last post, an interesting presentation came from Sandvik, a company manufacturing heavy machines. The presentation focussed on the increased automation and the use of these machines in mining environment. The operating conditions are particularly demanding, often requiring the machine to operate in very narrow spaces. Something I did …
Read More »Digital Twins at work
Over the last two days I got a deep-dive into the world of Digital Twins, courtesy of Mevea yearly seminar. You can browse the material presented from their website starting next week. You can get a mile high view of Mevea use of Digital Twin technology in the video clip …
Read More »Drones took to the skys. Where are they going? – III
Drones are being used by industry, municipalities and institutions to create high resolution maps of an area. These maps are digital representations that can be used in a variety of situations. Mevea has started to use drones to recreate in VR the future operation fields of their machines (backhoes). These …
Read More »Digital Twins: where we are where we go – I
Digital Twins are relatively new, less than 20 years old, but in these last 5 years they have moved from a research idea to practical industrial application. In these last two years they have started to be used, or considered, in a much broader slate of applications from healthcare to …
Read More »Digital Twins fueling the Digital Transformation
Mevea published a very nice article on “The Digital Twin Journey: a smooth pathway to Digital Innovation”. It is surely worth reading. Taken for granted that adopting the Digital Twin paradigm (get more commentaries on Digital Twins by searching for them on this blog) is increasing an enterprise efficiency along …
Read More »Digital Twins to support the whole product Life Cycle
I had a call last week with people from Mevea, a Finnish company that is taking the concept of Digital Twin as the springboard for their business. As a growing number of players in the industry, they see a Digital Twin as an integral part of a product, spanning its …
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