Reply To: Meeting the Digital Twin Challenge discussion

[Brian Matthews]

Hello Andrew,

2 minutes ago, Guest Andrew Z said:

Hello Brian,

Thank you for presentation.  Digital twins and networks of twins are obviously very exciting and promising concepts. But currently twins still exist for some selected assets only. Often in a ‘premium sector’ of B2B market. What do you believe may be main factors holding those technologies from becoming vastly popular. Scaling, so to speak, to the mass market? 

regards,

Andrew 

I think that there are business and technological barriers – which are interrealated.

Twins are currently bespoke – which means that you need a strong value proposition to invest, whcih may be rare.  But as standard use cases develop, for example pretentitive maintenance, then the should become more standard and commoditised.   Twins also need to be factored into the total cost of the asset from the start – which is more difficult to add to legacy assets.   Technologically, we also need better data and interoperability standards to make components within an asset base more plug-and-play.

thanks

Brian