Andy Parnell-Hopkinson
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@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 there are worse places to start, but it’s not the only choice.
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It certainly makes the case for automation. Imagine if your job was importing and structuring that data every day.Â
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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.Â
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@HenryFTÂ 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 in the UK.
By the way, call it a hunch if you like but it’s just the way I walk.
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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.Â
The skills needed to develop and deploy digital twins (whatever that is) aren’t at all hard to find. Just don’t expect only to find them inside the construction industry.
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Like it, Sam. This is about the sanest/simplest description of a DT yet.
What is it – yes.
Where is it – yes, notwithstanding Tom’s quantum asset. Schrodinger’s bike?
What does it do – I contend that knowing what something is already answers this so I would substitute with “what is it doing”. Caveat that the recency of “is” depends on the asset (ie how currently you need to know its state).
I’m now going to try to think of when this would not adequately describe a DT.
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Henry, this is sort of what I’ve been saying forever. If there’s a business case for building a twin etc, the longer you wait for someone else to provide you with a bunch of standards, the more likely your business case will go away, so JUST DO IT! (Someone should trademark that).
Sure, keep an eye on standards development and don’t lock yourself out but first mover advantage only exists if a) you’re first and b) you move.
By the way, what is this Hub Together of which you speak?
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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 the solution and need to fill the gaps and close the loop there are also, ahem, some excellent service providers out there who can help… 🙂
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Ah, good. Saw the event invitation and followed the breadcrumbs to here. Registered, and looking forward to the webinar.Â
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).Â
Seems to me most tech suppliers who claim to offer DT solutions actually do offer a part of a DT. The difficulty comes when you start piling these parts on top of each other and they eventually become unstable and unusable.
Actually scratch that – the difficulty comes when you have to ask your boss for a ton of cash to replace all the shiny new things you bought.
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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.Â