PROCESS TECHNOLOGIES
3D MODELS
ITOTIC LABS
A true digital win
Enterprises have been visualising data
through 3D models for years, but a model,
even a sophisticated one, isn’t a twin. 3D
models at their best are visualisations of
data and information which enable better
decisions and are often limited to discreet,
static diagrams of physical assets or
infrastructure.
A true digital twin of an asset or source is
able to interoperate and behave as its real-
world counterpart, securely and intelligently
interacting with other twins to share and
consume data and controls.
As companies continue to develop
and embrace digital transformation and
Enterprise 4.0, they are faced with an ever-
broadening capability gap. As the number
of interactions within enterprises and across
complex supply chains increases so does
the challenge.
Data and controls are locked in a complex
fractured, fluctuating ecosystem of siloes
that prevent the interactions demanded of
us and the digital driven growth in selective
data sharing between product and service.
The answer is digital twins and meaningful
interactions between them. Twins that are a
comprehensive interoperable version of any
The value of the Iotic
approach is that it’s
made it easy for the
team to connect different
applications and help
them work together.
thing, with all its data and controls through
its whole lifecycle, semantically defined and
machine readable. Twins that create an event
stream, a river of news, throughout their lives
from specification to BOM (Bill of Materials)
amendments, installation to operation.
Interrelating data and controls from siloes to
provide a single point of access.
Machine readable twins can securely and
programmatically interrelate. Abstracted
from their siloed sources, they can safely
enable interoperability that will power the
next generation of services, driven by
sophisticated and holistic algorithms and AI.
We have seen the adoption of digital
twins by organisations such as Rolls
Royce Power Systems, which has placed
an emergent twin-based interoperable
ecosystem at the heart of its vision to
deliver the next generation in customer
service.
Sean Gigremosa, Technical Product
Manager, explains: “The issue was that we
didn’t see our products the way customers
do. We saw the world based on our
technology and process, infrastructure
and delivery methodology. We harnessed
digital twin technology to provide a virtual
composite of the entirety of an asset’s data
and controls, one that could meaningfully
interact with other twins to provide a
single source of truth that helps suppliers
become service providers and customers
partners.”
Colin Everson, Head of Innovation at BAM
Nuttall, said: “We have all of this equipment
on site but no information about it, we just
didn’t collect or use it anywhere. Many
suppliers offer us an app to monitor their
bit of kit, but that’s not much use to us. The
value of the Iotic approach is that it’s made
it easy for the team to connect different
applications and help them work together.”
For further information, please visit www.iotic-labs.com
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