The value of Digital Twins can only be realized if Digital Twins and their virtual environment contain the same data and resulting information as their corresponding Physical Twins and real-world environment. This means that the need for more extensive, faster, and richer sensing of the physical world will dramatically increase as valuable use cases proliferate. In addition, we will evolve from working in physical or virtual environments to integrating and working simultaneously in both environments. Dr. Grieves discusses his views on the opportunities and issues of this evolution.

With the advent of Industry 4.0, there has been an increasing trend toward interconnectedness. Within this trend, the recommendations in this article position digital twins as a critical, connecting force.

Whilst use of unstructured data (sensors, images, video) is increasing, structured data remains crucial and is instrumental in developing descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analysis.

An interview with Kaishi Zhang focused on data interoperability relating to industrial automation

This article presents a discussion on how Intelligent Digital Twins (IDTs) will evolve and assist in developing and managing complex systems.

"Interoperability is critical to enable digital twins to process information from heterogeneous systems. The Digital Twin System Interoperability Framework seeks to address this challenge by facilitating complex system of systems interactions. Examples include scaling a smart building to a smart city to an entire country, or an assembly line to a factory to a global supply chain network,” said Dan Isaacs, CTO, Digital Twin Consortium.

An interview with Aurelien Le sant, CTO Industrial Automation, Schneider Electric

This paper sets out principles for the European Commission’s perspective on digital twins applied to the digital transformation of rail.

This paper on electronic rail digital twins, presented at the Power Electronics, Drive Systems, and Technologies Conference focuses on the need for precision to execute an exact simulation of the performance of real physical system.

This article is an easy introduction to the concept of APIs, API-first, the outlining benefits of an API-first approach.

An article from 2019 that examined the maturing of digital twins in the North Sea focused on Total, Aker BP, and Shell who had each developed and deployed twins.

Hidden deep within the avalanche of hyperbolic AI-centric sales and marketing ‘solutions’ to contemporary problems of data and information management, is a gold nugget. Ontology.