Integrated digital twins IIoT: Outstanding trends of the manufacturers

Manufacturers need to grow to keep pace with the ever-increasing demands of their customers to deliver new innovations and develop their products.

To keep up with the needs of the market, regular inspections of its products need to be done by manufacturers. The only way they can win in this race is to convert numbers to businesses. While there is no shortage of technological advances, the concept of digital twins, including the Internet of Things in Industry (IIoT), is still a prominent trend today. Digital twins can be made for many fields in industrial environments. They may be an entire production facility, or they may be an asset owned by that establishment, or they may be a product that is manufactured. Moreover, digital twins can be designed and applied to thousands of different fields. They allow managers to evaluate production, simulate products (in a variety of environments), assist machine tools, monitor systems and diagnose equipment faults.

Digital twins help manufacturers speed up product improvement

Digital twins can predict the problem before it happens or damage the product. It assists manufacturers in troubleshooting immediately by adjusting the parameters contained in the transmission line. It also allows engineers to analyze product features by comparing the simulation version with the actual version. Digital twins can also diagnose products that have been on the market in the same field. It helps technicians identify the necessary tools required during troubleshooting without the effort of unrelated items. It also provides feedback on the status of the products being used and indicates the percentage of customers who are using the product. These feedbacks will be sent to the product development unit and production department to help improve the product’s features and thereby bring satisfaction to customers. Digital twins in industry give supervisors, managers and workers more power than usual.

Connecting the real world with the digital world

Digital twins also bring better links between people and machines. For example, a manager sitting thousands of miles away can still control equipment operating in a factory through digital modeling. Digital copy tracking engineers can solve problems by eliminating faulty components in the system. Digital twins help reach out to professionals who have broader knowledge and a better understanding of machines at work and the entire process.

Digital twins help complete the product’s cycle. Manufacturers today do not expand their relationships with customers, they do not collect data of products after sales. This will prevent them from being aware of customer feedback and therefore it is difficult for the next versions of the product to gain satisfaction from a consumer perspective. Digital twins provide feedback through the IoT to the manufacturer, allowing the data flow to somehow help create new innovations that meet the needs of consumers.

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