Emerging Technologies for Successful Digital Twin

Manufacturers can leverage digital twins as a key decision support enabler

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., August 6, 2019 – International Data Corporation (IDC) today published a new report, IDC TechScape: Worldwide Digital Twins, 2019 (IDC #US45334119), which focuses on the transformational, incremental, and opportunistic technologies necessary for successful digital twin implementation and operation. While there are multiple existing enterprise technologies available within organizations today that are necessary to support digital twins, this study focuses on the new, digital technologies and platforms that make digital twins essential entities for enterprise-wide processes, including design, development, supply chain, manufacturing, service, and customer experience.

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According to IDC's 2018 report, IDC PlanScape: Digital Twins for Products, Assets, and Ecosystems (IDC #US43134418), digital twins are the extended application of simulation and visualization throughout a digitally transformed organization for better communication and collaboration. The starting points and use cases for digital twins of product and assets will differ by company size, industry, and need, but the value derived by all manufacturers will be similar — clarity of communication; rapid collaboration; holistic visibility; accurate, efficient response to demand; monetization of IoT data; predictive, proactive service; and closer collaboration with customers. Digital twins can be applied throughout the modern, digitally transformed business, within R&D and engineering workgroups, extended to business and technical domains from business line management to product management, sales and marketing, manufacturing, supply chain, and service.

"The value of digital twins lies in flexible data visualization. That is, the complex data model that is a digital twin should be synchronous and secure, enabling different domains across the organization to view the level of information and knowledge they want to see, whether that is a lightweight model or a detailed, complex view. Digital twins have been in use within manufacturing engineering and R&D workgroups for years — the difference today is, due to 3rd Platform technology, these flexible models can be deployed across the value chain of the digitally transformed organization as a decision support enabler," said Jeff Hojlo, program director, Product Innovation Strategies.

There is a set of fundamental 2nd Platform technologies (enterprise applications) that provide foundational data and business process support to digital twins, which are already in place in most organizations today. As companies digitally transform and deploy 3rd Platform technologies, digital twins can be deployed throughout the organization, inside and outside, as an accelerator of planning, design, development, collaboration, communication, and operation. This new IDC TechScape defines the technology that manufactures can use to build digital twins of varying complexity, including product, asset, supply chain process, and production process twins, and outlines three technology adoption curves: transformational, incremental, and opportunistic, which shows rate and time to adoption of each digital twin technology.

IDC TechScape: Worldwide Digital Twins, 2019

By: Jeffrey Hojlo

Table of Contents

IDC TechScape Figure

Figure: IDC TechScape: Worldwide Digital Twins, 2019

In This Study

Technology Markers of Momentum

Table: IDC TechScape Technology Markers of Momentum — Digital Twins Technologies, 2019

Transformational

Advanced Simulation

Figure: Advanced Simulation Markers of Momentum

AI and Machine Learning

Figure: AI and Machine Learning Markers of Momentum

AR

Figure: AR Markers of Momentum

Edge Cloud Computing

Figure: Edge Cloud Computing Markers of Momentum

5G

Figure: 5G Markers of Momentum

Generative Design

Figure: Generative Design Markers of Momentum

IoT

Figure: IoT Markers of Momentum

Incremental

Advanced Cybersecurity

Figure: Advanced Cybersecurity Markers of Momentum

BIM

Figure: BIM Markers of Momentum

Cognitive Analytics

Figure: Cognitive Analytics Markers of Momentum

Low-Code Platform

Figure: Low-Code Platform Markers of Momentum

Product Innovation Platform

Figure: Product Innovation Platform Markers of Momentum

Thinking Supply Chain

Figure: Thinking Supply Chain Markers of Momentum

3D Visualization

Figure: 3D Visualization Markers of Momentum

Opportunistic

Blockchain

Figure: Blockchain Markers of Momentum

Quantum Computing

Figure: Quantum Computing Markers of Momentum

VR

Figure: VR Markers of Momentum

Technology Adoption Outlook

Figure: IDC's Digital Twin Complexity Continuum

IDC TechScape Methodology

IDC TechScape Categories and Definitions: Transformational, Incremental, and Opportunistic

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