By Sandra Erwin | Space News | June 5, 2023

There is still confusion in the industry about what a digital twin is, versus a simulation

By Staff | Barcelona SUpercomputing Center | May 5, 2018

DigiTwins project, in which Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) participates, has received an invitation from the European Commission to enter the next stage of the competition to become an EU Flagship for Future and Emerging Technologies. DigiTwins, a large research initiative in Europe and beyond aims at revolutionizing healthcare and biomedical research for the benefit of citizens and society and at contributing to Europe’s Digital Single Market strategy through the creation of Digital Twins for every European citizen.

By Michael Grieves and John Vickers | Florida Institute of Technology / NASA |  🗓August 2016

By Staff | Rethink Work / Konica Minolta |  🗓 11.11.2019  ⏱  9 min read

A digital twin enables you to depict existing and planned equipment and systems virtually. This allows you to significantly reduce development times.

By Staff | Materialise |  🗓 11.2023  ⏱  8 minutes to read

By Maged N. Kamel Boulos and Peng Zhang | Journal of Personalized Medicine|  🗓 11.2023  ⏱  8 minutes to read

By Guy Huntington | eLearningIndustry |  🗓 January 23, 2021  ⏱  8 minutes to read

This article examines the use of bots in the classroom, and then visions the future, leveraging a digital learning twin.

By Guy Huntington | Huntington Ventures Ltd. |  🗓 February 14, 2020 / Updated Sept 28, 2021  ⏱  10 minutes to read

By Veronica Martinez and Nicolai F. Huss | University of Cambridge | Sep 2022

This report considers the design, implementation and potential benefits of digital twins in the satellite industry. Its findings are derived from the development of a technology roadmap for the application of digital twins by satellite-based services. It is the first time a roadmap for both strategic design and technology management in the space industry has been created.

By Staff | Siemens | Sep 2022

How the comprehensive digital twin is revolutionizing the manufacturing industry. The comprehensive digital twin is used to simulate, predict, and optimize a product and its production system before investing in physical prototypes and assets . It provides valuable foresight before production and insights that drive continuous manufacturing improvements. This ebook highlights four real-world examples of how a comprehensive digital twin helped attain these key objectives through the lens of industry executives.

By Bench Mark Magazin | NAFEMS | April 24, 2018

International magazine from NAFEMS, the International Association for the Engineering Modelling, Analysis and Simulation Community.

Cesium - The platform for 3D geospatial

Cesium is the foundational open platform for creating powerful 3D geospatial applications. Combine Cesium ion's curated 3D global content with your point clouds, photogrammetry, BIM, or other 3D data to jumpstart app development. Your Cesium ion account includes the fastest available tiling pipelines for streaming your content as 3D Tiles, and you control who can access your data.

3D Tiles - The open specification for 3D data

3D Tiles is the open standard for massive, heterogeneous 3D geospatial datasets such as point clouds, buildings, photogrammetry, and vector data. Built on glTF and other 3D data types, 3D Tiles is a streamable, optimized format designed to tap the potential of today’s ever-growing collection of 3D geospatial data.

3D Tiles - Specification on GitHub

The specification for 3D Tiles, an open standard for streaming massive heterogeneous 3D geospatial datasets.

OpenUSD - Open Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) is more than just a file format, it’s an open and extensible ecosystem for describing, composing, simulating, and collaborating within 3D worlds. Originally invented by Pixar Animation Studio, USD’s design and features have positioned it to become the open standard that enables the 3D evolution of the internet, the metaverse.OpenUSD encompasses a collection of fundamental tools and capabilities that accelerate workflows, teams, and projects, whether you are creating assets and environments for large-scale, connected virtual worlds or building the tools that will make these worlds possible.

By Staff | Microsoft | Last Acess 2024

Create comprehensive digital models of entire environments.Use Azure Digital Twins to gain insights that drive better products, optimize operations, and deliver breakthrough customer experiences.

Histórico de dados dos Gêmeos Digitais do Azure (com o Azure Data Explorer)

By Staff | AWS | Last Acess 2024

AWS IoT TwinMaker makes it easier for developers to create digital twins of real-world systems such as buildings, factories, industrial equipment, and production lines. AWS IoT TwinMaker provides the tools you need to build digital twins to help you optimize building operations, increase production output, and improve equipment performance. With the ability to use existing data from multiple sources, create virtual representations of any physical environment, and combine existing 3D models with real-world data, you can now harness digital twins to create a holistic view of your operations faster and with less effort.

By Staff | Dassault Systèmes | Last Acess 2024

Dassault Systèmes is in the business of innovation. Through our unique solutions, they bring virtual twin experiences to everyone. By combining a diversity of talents and breaking up the traditional silos, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform empowers organizations to invent, learn, produce, and trade in entirely new ways.

By Staff | GE Vernova | Last Acess 2024

Apply advanced analytics and machine learning to reduce operational costs and risks.

By Staff | Ansys | Last Acess 2024

Ansys Twin Builder is an open solution that allows engineers to create simulation-based digital twins with Hybrid Analytics.

PODCAST - The Evolution of the Digital Twin in Industry with Tom Phillips of Siemens

Hosted by Stephen Ferguson | Siemens | Digital Industries Software | Duration: 00:24:26 | December 7, 2023 • 2 MIN READ

Guest: Tom Phillips, Director, Simulation Portfolio Development of Siemens Digital Industries Software

Tom Phillips sheds light on the advanced applications and benefits of digital twins in the industrial world. His insights are focused on the practical aspects and the future of digital twin technology in enhancing industrial operations.

PODCAST - Building the Open Metaverse

Building the Open Metaverse is a podcast that invites a broad range of technical experts to share their insights on how the community is building the metaverse together.

PODCAST - Medical 3D Players: How Can Computer Simulation Save Lives?

Hosted by Pieter Slagmolen and Sebastian de Boodt | NASA | Materialise | Duration: 00:45:01 | OCT 13, 2023

Discussing mass personalization in healthcare — because one size fits no one. This podcast examines key developments with experts in the healthcare industry.

TALK - How will a digital heart improve healthcare? | Ep. 40

Hosted by Keith Shaw | TechTalk T(t) IDG | www.computerworld.com Series/ | Duration: 00:22:38 | APR 19, 2023

Guest: Iris Shelly, research scientist with NTT Research

A scientific project that can create digital representations of the cardiovascular system aims to predict and diagnose diseases in virtual scenarios before applying them to real-world settings. The system can help doctors make better decisions on treatment options, as well as predict potential illnesses down the road. Iris Shelly, a research scientist with NTT Research, joins the show to discuss the project.

PODCAST - Digital Identity

Hosted by Nora Young | CBC Radio | Spark | Duration: 00:53:51 | Jun 03, 2022

Guest: Tracey Follows, author of The Future of You

In the future, will you own your digital self? This futurist thinks so

DTC - Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) drives the awareness, adoption, interoperability, and development of digital twin technology. Through a collaborative partnership with industry, academia, and government expertise, the Consortium is dedicated to the overall development of digital twins. We accelerate the market by propelling innovation and guiding outcomes for technology end-users.The members are committed to using digital twins throughout their global operations and supply chains. The consortium is open to any business, organization, or entity with an interest in digital twins. Digital Twin Consortium is part of the Object Management Group®.

DTP - Digital Twin Research Program develops methods to make accurate digital twins of these types of systems: virtual software versions that allow you to run simulations to predict, for example, how changes in the design affect performance, how control can be improved, or which part on which needs maintenance at the moment. Digital twins are still mostly based on static theoretical models that assume normal behavior. By linking these models to measurement data that indicate how the system actually functions and combining this data with artificial intelligence, the researchers make digital copies that continuously improve and adapt themselves. The research focuses on a number of exemplary systems provided by the Dutch high-tech companies involved in the program..

Cesium - is a Platform for 3D Geospatial. It is an open platform for software applications designed to unleash the power of 3D data. The open ecosystem contains open standards, open APIs, and open source software.

OGC - Open Geoespatial Consortium (OGC)GC is the one place for technology, innovation, standards, community, and more. We are a neutral playing field for innovation that eliminates friction across traditionally competitive organizations. Meet your future teammates, be a leader, or become an industry partner. OGC’s member-driven consensus process creates royalty free, publicly available, open geospatial standards. Existing at the cutting edge, OGC actively analyzes and anticipates emerging trends, and runs an agile Research and Development (R&D) lab – the OGC Collaborative Solutions and Innovation Program – that builds and tests innovative prototype solutions to members’ use cases.

AOUSD - The Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) is an open, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the interoperability of 3D content through OpenUSD (Universal Scene Description). Standardizing the 3D ecosystem will enable developers and content creators to describe, compose, and simulate large-scale 3D projects and build an ever-widening range of 3D-enabled products and services. Part of the Joint Development Foundation, the Alliance brings together a diverse and inclusive community of participants to provide an open forum for collaborative development and discussion around OpenUSD. The AOUSD mission is to foster the standardization, development, evolution, and growth of OpenUSD.

DigiTwin - The overall aim of this project is to create robustly-validated digital twins for dynamics applications. This is urgently needed to overcome limitations in current industrial practice that increasingly rely on large computer-based models to make critical design and operational decisions for systems such as wind farms, nuclear power stations and aircraft.The specific research objectives of the project are:

(1) Design: specifically to create new design methodologies that can be applied to dynamic systems that lead to significant improvements in confidence based on digital twin concepts

(2) Uncertainty management: to fully integrate quantification, propagation and management of uncertainty into the digital twin framework to radically improve the levels of trust available

(3) Validation: to ensure that the digital twin framework can be robustly verified and validated.

interTwin - interTwin aims at designing and building a prototype of an interdisciplinary Digital Twin Engine (DTE), based on a co-designed Blueprint Architecture. interTwin co-designs and implements the prototype of an interdisciplinary Digital Twin Engine (DTE) – an open source platform based on open standards that offers the capability to integrate with application-specific Digital Twins (DTs). Its functional specifications and implementation are based on a co-designed interoperability framework and conceptual model of a DT for research – the DTE blueprint architecture. The ambition of interTwin is to create consensus on a common approach to the implementation of DTs that is applicable across the whole spectrum of scientific disciplines that will facilitate developments and interoperability across different DTs.