Defining the Digital Twin
Digital twins provide important insights on system performance, guiding decisions in the physical world such as changes in process design and operation, safety and maintenance.
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What digital twins DO:
helps optimize business performance.
An evolving digital profile of the historical, current and future behavior of a physical object or process that
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What digital twins are:
Based on models and real-time data across multiple dimensions, a digital twin may or may not be updated in real time.
helps optimize business performance.
Different types of digital twins model different types of equipment and business processes across the entire asset lifecycle.
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What digital twins REFLECT:
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The Operational
Integrity
Digital Twin
The Operational
Excellence
Digital Twin
The Operational Excellence Digital Twin:
Plant operations—from a business level to a control level—modeled and virtually viewed as planning, scheduling, control and utility models.
Execution Model: combine data management and operational intelligence to enable rich visualization and analytics capabilities
Distribute Model: optimize product transportation and storage based on a variety of inputs to create a flexible, responsive and efficient distribution network
Demand Model: generate and manage accurate demand forecasts with demand segmentation and pattern recognition capabilities
Planning Model: evaluate multiple planning scenarios to create the
most profitable network-wide game plan
Scheduling Model: align operations with the plan based on automated workflows. Create and manage production schedules that proactively adapt to disruption
Control & Optimization Model: achieve maximum value by running advanced process control and dynamic optimization in closed loop
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Asset Model: examine an asset’s functional elements, physical instances, process flows, physical connections and associated infrastructure.
Equipment Model: evaluate equipment’s current, future and historical performance
The process plant, modeled rigorously using engineering models and enhanced by AI techniques with embedded cost and risk models.
The Plant Digital Twin:
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The Operational
Integrity
Digital Twin
The Operational
Excellence
Digital Twin
Monitor asset health and assess risks. Real-time recommendations help maximize uptime, minimize environmental impacts, mitigate production losses and prioritize safety.
The Operational Integrity Digital Twin:
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Equipment Analytics: identify conditions and behavior patterns that indicate problems; warnings weeks or months prior to breakdowns allow time to proactively respond
Process analytics: use multivariate analysis and real-time monitoring to pinpoint process variances that can damage an asset or impact product quality
Risk Model: assess your production system’s reliability and performance as a whole. Identify the greatest process, safety and economic risks and determine the optimal way to proceed
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The Operational
Integrity
Digital Twin
The Operational
Excellence
Digital Twin
The Plant
Digital Twin
Monitor asset health and assess risks. Real-time recommendations help maximize uptime, minimize environmental impacts, mitigate production losses and prioritize safety.
The Operational Integrity Digital Twin:
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Equipment Analytics: identify conditions and behavior patterns that indicate problems; warnings weeks or months prior to breakdowns allow time to proactively respond
Process analytics: use multivariate analysis and real-time monitoring to pinpoint process variances that can damage an asset or impact product quality
Risk Model: assess your production system’s reliability and performance as a whole. Identify the greatest process, safety and economic risks and determine the optimal way to proceed.
The Operational
Integrity
Digital Twin
The Operational
Excellence
Digital Twin
The Plant
Digital Twin
The Operational
Integrity
Digital Twin
The Operational
Excellence
Digital Twin
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The Operational
Integrity
Digital Twin
The Operational
Excellence
Digital Twin
The Plant
Digital Twin
Cost & Resource Model: explore the
design, resources, timing and costs of
project execution
Process Model: simulate a chemical process, incorporating first principle models and AI
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