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RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
THE IMPORTANCE OF
DIGITAL TWINS IN ASSET-
INTENSIVE INDUSTRIES
How digital twins
can accelerate your
digital transformation
As the physical assets within your business become more digitally mature
with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), there is a need to harness the data
generated and to leverage historical and design information that covers asset
lifecycles. With modeling, sensor data, visualization, and analytical capabilities
expanding all the time, it is now possible to merge these technologies to create
a digital representation of any physical asset.
RICHARD IRWIN,
SENIOR
Product Marketer, Asset
Performance, Bentley
Systems, Inc. Immersive
Digital Operations
STUDIES SHOW that on average 65 percent
of the population are visual learners.
Delivering business intelligence
visually improves productivity, accuracy,
and efficiency. Digital twins are enabling
immersive digital operations so multidiscipline
teams have the flexibility to
work day-to-day in a visual environment
that displays complex asset data intuitively
and in context.
Immersive digital operations enable
you to view current asset information
through 3D models and reality meshes.
Select an element in a graphic view and
display the underlying data related to
the asset, including related 1D, 2D, or 3D
models, associated documents, maintenance
history, geospatial coordinates,
degradation data, and more. The information
that aligns the entire organiza-
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