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The Digital Twin Factory: Building a Virtual Mirror of Physical Production
Digital twins allow manufacturers to represent physical equipment, production processes or complete factory systems within a digital environment. Combined with simulation and operational data, these virtual models can support design decisions, process improvement, commissioning and ongoing optimisation. This edition examines how digital twins are being applied across manufacturing and explains their relationship with simulation, virtual commissioning and connected factory data. It explores how a useful virtual representation can help manufacturers understand changes before applying them to physical production.
Editor's Note
A virtual model becomes valuable when it helps engineers make better decisions about the physical factory. Digital twins therefore extend beyond visual representations to the information, behaviour and relationships that make production systems work. This edition examines how simulation and factory data can create useful digital counterparts and why accurate models can help manufacturers test ideas, understand processes and reduce uncertainty before changing real production.
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