The concept of the digital twin emerged several years ago with the advent of the industrial IoT and smart connected factories, plants, and production systems. With the advancement of Cloud/Edge Computing landscape and intelligence edge devices the implementation of digital twin strategies has been taken to new levels using AI/ML, advanced analytics, and optimization of both products and processes.
There are tangible benefits of a digital twin: faster time to market and innovation, getting value from the huge amount of data generated from the industrial IoT, helping to integrate engineering disciplines across the lifecycle, and delivering new business models.
Today, discrete manufacturing industries and companies are implementing digital twins at an ever- increasing rate. This session will examine the current technologies driving the use of digital twins, the intelligent edge, and the overall value proposition.