Designing Digital Twins: A Problem-first Approach to Bridging the Real and Virtual Worlds
Read time: ~5min
Geminum CEO & Co-founder Rob Foster releases his debut book “Designing Digital Twins: A Problem First Approach to Bridging the Real and Virtual Worlds”.
Most organizations don’t struggle with defining or building a solution, but rather with designing interconnected systems that solve real-world problems across data and organisational silos.
Designing Digital Twins provides the reader with a process and practical advice to designing digital twins that solve real problems. The stated intent of the book is to reduce the probability of no-ROI twins.
You can purchase copies of “Designing Digital Twins” from Amazon now.
The Digital Twin Design Process (DTDP)
Digital Twin Design Process
The DTDP is a repeatable and flexible process for designing, delivering and iterating digital twins.
The book takes readers through each step, from defining and validating real problems, to designing feasible change in the real world, to measuring activities, value and ROI in order to design successive iterations of improvements.
Practical Advice
Beyond the DTDP process, readers are provided with specific and actionable advice on numerous situations that they are likely to encounter.
Wide vs Narrow Twins
Wide Twins deliver Capabilities & Data
Narrow Twins link Capabilities and Data to Actions & Decisions in the real world
Wide twins provide foundations but often do not provide ROI
Narrow twins provide ROI but can be expensive to broaden to additional problems
Readers are introduced to Wide + (n) Narrow twins, where sufficient foundations are built to enable multiple problem classes to be addressed, without over engineering or constraining growth of adjacent use cases.
Working forwards from Existing Solutions
While working backwards from Problems is ideal, it can also be idealistic. Starting point patterns are described to enable the reader to tackle the situation they are handed, and still deliver value to their customers.
Design Solutions & Change
To create the Desired Changes across the Real and Virtual worlds, readers are encouraged to design solutions and design the required change to people, processes and equipment.
Effective cyber-physical change requires more than change management - it requires co-creation with the people who need to make the Decisions and take the Actions every day on the ground.
You can purchase copies of “Designing Digital Twins” from Amazon now. Enquire for bulk discounts for teams.
Geminum provides digital twin design services to end users, service providers and technology teams. As proponents of the Digital Twin Design Process, we live and breathe our own advice and continuously improve our learnings and understanding of this fast changing world.