@Paul Forge is just a data/API platform, it’s not tied to Autodesk-only products. Depending on the data or services you access might require a licence of some sort, but it’s worth a look, maybe, as long as you don’t mind subscriptions.

If you want to tie all your business and spatial data together ad aren’t averse to an in-house solution…

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@Miguel you need to clarify. For example, do you mean a geometric representation, a performance model (eg heating, AC, room utilisation, maintenance records), a construction plan, something else…? NB if it’s not changing, it’s not a DT. 

@HenryFT the UK is certainly doing things but I’ve noticed interesting activity in Australia and US, particularly the Digital Twin Consortium. Where the latter organisation scores highly for me is that they are strongly leveraging decades of digital experience in the manufacturing sector – which I see as distinctly lacking in most discussions…

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Top of my list for skills and competencies would be engagement with the boots on the ground. Unless you have trades and contractor staff actually demanding digital tools (because they directly understand them and trust the advantages) then digital development is just building ivory towers. 

The skills needed to develop and deploy digital…

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Paul, in my limited experience there are many, many suppliers of point tools for doing parts of asset capture and management but I’m yet to see a genuine one-stop-shop solution. Besides, your requirements are unlikely to be precisely the same as the next asset owner, meaning either compromise or customisation.

If you already have parts of…

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Ah, good. Saw the event invitation and followed the breadcrumbs to here. Registered, and looking forward to the webinar. 

My 2c is that a DT, like a BIM, should have a functional or data set threshold but once passed, you can pretty much put whatever you like in there (cf Dan Rossiter’s thin v fat twins). 

Seems to me most tech supp…

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Is the Digital Twin concept still a solution looking for a problem, or maybe a technology looking for a genuine ROI case?
I wonder what the results of a 1-5 agree/disagree poll would be. Especially filtered by the vested interest of the participants.