Hraabo said:
Summary:: Digital twin
Can you recommend any litterature(books,thesis etc.) of digital twin
It is a little hard to know what to propose without an idea of what you've already looked at,
@Hraabo , but most of the DT work I've been involved in is with utility asset management and planning teams. They are either looking at extending their SCADA systems into a DT representation for better real-time operational decision making, or wanting to improve the accuracy of their multi-decades capital allocation process via scenario analysis.
This paper seems typical of the asset-centric view of DT, which is increasingly of interest as IoT sensors are rolled out in volume. One of my clients is currently working through the architecture for over 1M sensors throughout their network and expect the DT aspect to be handled by various software components, primarily Maximo and Cummulocity. The software products will be SaaS and the IoT comms handled by a telco partner, so from their perspective, the devices represent event and time series data sources that an enterprise historian collates for use within their asset management and customer billing ecosystem.
To be fair, most of the DT work we're involved in still in exploratory stage. It is a terrific-sounding concept, but finding concrete ROI for the implementation can be a challenge. Some of the ideas we've come across - like DT coupled with VR/AR so maintenance and installation teams can "see through" walls to spot equipment in a pumping station or look "underground" at network infrastructure - has a lot of benefits but the cost to develop the model from what is usually inaccurate or not high enough resolution data means it remains one of those 'good ideas, but...'
In terms of other software, https://www.g2.com/categories/digital-twin highlights that there are many products out there. I can't personally recommend any of them from extensive use, unfortunately, but what when you ask for a recommendation, do you have a set of uses cases in mind to narrow down the field? Or were you just looking to try some software out to get a feel for how they operate?