There has been a lot of talk, particularly (and some would say weirdly) in politics, about the cutting edge nature of Digital Twins. In fact there seems to be an abundance of funding for digital twins as part of the Australian governments push towards sovereign capability and manufacturing innovation in Australia.
In amongst all of this its unclear exactly what the funding is for and to which types of digital twins it applies.
In my recent post, the 3 prerequisites of a powerful digital twin, I defined a digital twin as simply the digital clone of a system.
A digital twin can be a spreadsheet, a CAD drawing, a sophisticated business proposal or a complex dynamic simulation. The common characteristic is that the twin is digital and it accurately depicts the behaviour of a system during the of achievement of a business goal.
In this post I give a more detail on the 9 most important digital twins in the process industry.
Which one you choose to focus on, if any, is determined by your business priorities.