Digital Twins

In his final episode detailing the function of Building Information Modelling (BIM), Ian explains the Digital Twins. A Digital Twin is a digital representation of a physical object, process, service or environment that behaves and looks like its counterpart in the real world. In terms of buildings and real estate, the Digital Twin utilises the original 3D model from the BIM process and converts it into a representation of what is actually built.

Ian covers types of Digital Twin, how a Digital Twin functions, challenges they can solve, why and how to design with Digital Twins, data, modelling, internet linking, Artificial Intelligence integration, and benefits of Digital Twins. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The data, as with all aspects of BIM, is the critical part of Digital Twin representation. 
• This method can allow enhancement of strategic technology trends, prevent costly failure in the physical objects and, with advanced analytics, test the products and services. 
• Types of Digital Twins are Component or Part Twins, Asset Twins, System Twins, and Process Twins. 
• Digital Twins can improve procedures such as workflow and staffing, monitoring, and testing of new products and processes. 
• Devices connected to the internet allow real-world data to be instantaneously transferred into the Digital Twin.
• Common benefits include increased reliability, availability through monitoring and simulation to improve performance, reduced risk, reduced mechanical failures, and efficient scheduling and supply chain. 
• With new participants in the supply chain, all must be willing to share all their data from their production processes to ensure the information contained in the Digital Twin is complete. 

BEST MOMENTS

‘It is effectively the transition from the design phase into the real world.’

‘What you are trying to do through the digital twin is actually test what reality is going to be like and therefore avoid all the costly mistakes by doing it wrong in the first place.’

‘The developers who create the Digital twin ensure that the virtual computer model can receive feedback from sensors that gather data from the real world version.’

‘Digital Twin technology uses machine learning algorithms to process large quantities of sensor data to identify data patterns.’

‘However, for all of the benefits, Digital Twins is not suitable for all instances as it can increase complexity.’ 

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ABOUT THE HOST

Ian Rogers is an entrepreneur running businesses in the Real Estate, Construction and Facilities Management arena. Ian has over 40 years’ industry experience, as he was effectively born into construction with his father having his own building company and Ian spending time working on sites from the age of 11!. As a result Ian has seen the industry from a trades person perspective, as a chartered quantity surveyor working on large commercial projects, as a project manager and then working on structured project finance through PFI/PPP deals. This has given Ian a unique whole life approach to any project by considering the end game at the beginning.

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