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Hi Robert
Ive just joined the Hub and after looking at the community messages i was compelled to reply to this post. I have small experience in this field but have always tried not to use the word “Digital Twin” especially in the Build Environment where i work. It does look like everyone has their own definition and this seem to make the term lose its value.
I have looked at the following paper on Science Direct – Kritzinger, Werner; Karner, Matthias; Traar, Georg; Henjes, Jan; Sihn, Wilfried (January 2018). “Digital Twin in manufacturing: A categorical literature review and classification” where they have defined the terms according to the level of data integration (between the physical device and its digital object) as the following – an interesting concept.
Digital Model (DM) – Manual data flow both ways
Digital Shadow (DS) – Automatic data flow to the digital object but manual data flow back to the physical device
Digital Twin (DT) – Automatic data flow both ways
This is also subject to different opinions and interpretations. I’m quite keen to find out what other professional think and wat other terms they have used to replace Digital Twin.
I have used “Digital building and Analytic Platform”