TECHNOLOGY FOR BUSINESS GROWTH

Dr. Richard SOlEY Executive Director, Digital Twin Consortium

- Pradeep Chakraborty

The Object Management Group (OMG), with founders Ansys, Dell Technologies, Lendlease, and Microsoft, recently announced the formation of Digital Twin Consortium. Digital twin technology enables companies to head off problems before they occur, prevent downtime, improve the customer experience, develop new opportunities, drive innovation and performance, and plan for the future using simulations.

Members of the Digital Twin Consortium will collaborate across multiple industries to learn from each other and develop and apply best practices. This new open membership organization will drive consistency in vocabulary, architecture, security, and interoperability to help advance the use of digital twin technology in many industries from aerospace to natural resources. Here, Dr. Richard Soley, Executive Director, Digital Twin Consortium, tells us more

What is the purpose of the Digital twin Consortium? How different is it from the others?

The twin purposes are to accelerate the use of digital twins in the market where they’re underused and amplify the interoperability and portability of digital twins, especially between markets. We are not familiar with another organization with those aims.

Why is digital twin difficult due to a lack of understanding and standardization?

In some markets (e.g., large manufactured objects and semiconductor chips), the digital twins have been around for decades, causing unnecessary fragmentation of approaches. The Digital Twin Consortium exists to correct that with open-source software.

How is digital twin technology changing the face of manufacturing?