Digital Twin

What is a digital twin?

A digital twin is a virtual copy of a component, system, or process that is created from data to understand, predict, and optimize real-world performance. The digital twin can also use real-time product data to describe product behavior or performance.

What are the business benefits of a digital twin?

The digital twin can reduce development costs and time to market by eliminating the need for physical prototypes. This can alert technicians to product failures early to avoid unplanned downtime and improve product performance. Combined with operational data from customers and partners such as maintenance organizations, it helps everyone in the value chain better manage products and assets such as industrial equipment.

A digital twin is a digital representation of a real object or system. A digital twin implementation is an encapsulated software object or model that represents a single physical object, process, organization, person, or other abstraction. Data from multiple digital twins can be combined to create a complex representation of a variety of real-world objects, such as a power plant or city, and its processes.

Literal Meanings of Digital Twin

Twin:

Meanings of Twin:

Or two people (or, more rarely, animals) sharing the same at the same time, one of whom was born in the same birth as a brother.
Any two objects, entities, etc. are similar or closely related.
A room in a hotel, guest house, etc. with two beds is a double bed.
A multi-purpose mattress or a bed designed for a multi-purpose mattress.
Double glass.
(obsolete outside Scotland) Divide, divide.
(obsolete outside Scotland) To part, to leave, to part, to leave.
(usually passive) to join, come together to make connections between (now usually two places in different countries).
Bind or deliver.
Gave birth to twins.
Born in the same birth.
Double Dual is shown as a matching pair.
Make twins.