What industries use digital twins?
Digital twin asset digitisation is used across many different industries and sectors, especially in construction and larger manufacturing spaces, but also in healthcare and other less likely places.
Construction
We work with construction teams to create immersive 360 digital twins at various stages of the build to better plan residential, commercial, and infrastructure projects while providing a real-time picture of how existing projects are progressing. Architects also use digital twins as part of their project planning by combining 3D modelling of buildings with digital twin technology. Commercial building managers use digital twins further to convert their physical world into a smart building, monitoring live and historical temperature, occupancy, and air-quality data within rooms and open spaces to improve occupant comfort.
Manufacturing
Digital twins are used across the manufacturing lifecycle, from designing and planning to maintaining existing facilities. A digital twin prototype allows you to monitor your equipment at all times and analyse performance data that shows how a particular part or the entirety of your plant is functioning.
Energy
Digital twins are widely used in the energy sector to support strategic project planning and optimise the performance and lifecycles of existing assets, such as offshore installations, refining facilities, wind farms, and solar projects.
Automotive
The automotive industry uses digital twin asset digitisation to create digital models of retail showrooms and the manufacturing spaces. Immersive 360 virtual tours of these very large spaces, allow plant and showroom managers to quickly locate machinery and components for further insights. It is another area where predictive maintenance is valuable because a digital twin can alert a service centre or user when it finds an issue with component performance.
Healthcare
Digital twins are used in the healthcare industry for several instances. These include building virtual twins of entire hospitals, other healthcare facilities and labs, creating indoor wayfinding for patients to quickly navigate around these large spaces.
- Digital twin asset digitisation used in a large gas plant