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.

This short article provides a quick read introduction to digital twins applied to the oil & gas industry.

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.

In this article McKinsey lay out a basic three-step approach to building a digital twin: creating a blueprint, building the initial digital twin, and then boosting its capabilities.

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

“For a greener, more reliable, more secure energy future, the utility industry must make digital twins a ubiquitous part of everyday operations. But what does this mean and how does it look?”

"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.

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

The City of Seoul implemented S-Map (soil mapping) technology to create a digital twin to solve various urban problems through simulation, combining information such as administration and environment.

This article outlines how making use of advanced connectivity to optimize oil & gas drilling and production throughput and improve maintenance and field operations could add up to $250 billion of value to the industry’s upstream operations by 2030.

An entry-level article by PWC Australia of the benefits of industrial digital twins

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