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Strategic Guidance to Reduce the Risk of Digital Twin Adoption

In my role at Microsoft, I represent the company on several standards organizations and consortia, including the Digital Twin Consortium (DTC). Microsoft was one of the founders of the DTC two years ago with the intent to reduce confusion in the marketplace about the definition of digital twins, to accelerate the market, and address interoperability needs. The resulting ecosystem is capturing best practices, defining case studies, and driving the innovation of digital twin technology. Read more →

Digital Twin Interoperability Framework

Digital Twin Consortium video describes the digital twin system interoperability approach. Read more →

Machine Learning Unlocks New Real-Time Applications for Digital Twins

The digital twin concept encompasses use cases for both product lifecycle management (PLM) and for real-time streaming analytics in live systems. The latter is becoming ever more important as our society increasingly relies on a fast-growing population of IoT devices. With billions of smart devices constantly generating data, the task of tracking their telemetry and extracting real-time intelligence has become extremely challenging. Applying the digital twin concept to real-time analytics for IoT promises to address this challenge by revealing real-time insights, enabling immediate responses to emerging issues, and maximizing overall situational awareness. Read more →

The Need for a Simple Scalable System Interoperability Mechanism

Digital Twin Consortium created the Digital Twin System Interoperability Framework to unlock significant value in complex distributed computing systems such as digital twins. We invite you to review, challenge, refine, and adopt this framework, and we hope it proves helpful in designing computing systems that improve our lives. Read more →

An Introduction to the Next Generation of Digital Twins

A holistic view of products, processes, or even the whole value chain to enable closed-loop engineering, cross-company digital services, and more is a crucial success factor for any data-driven organization. The next generation of digital twin technologies will play a key role in standardizing and automating business processes across current boundaries of systems and companies. This blog post introduces the general concept behind digital twins and the latest standards in this area. Read more →