Building Industrial Digital Twins Design, develop, and deploy digital twin solutions for real-world industries using Azure Digital Twins
Build your first digital twin MVP and gain first-hand experience of using the technology, the challenges it presents, and its impact on your organization Key Features Create a digital twin prototype using Microsoft Azure Digital TwinExplore the digital twin approach to the design, operations, and ma...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Birmingham
Packt Publishing
2021
Packt Publishing, Limited Packt Publishing Limited |
| Edition: | 1 |
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| ISBN: | 9781839219078, 1839219076 |
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Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents Introduction to Digital TwinPlanning Your Digital TwinIdentifying the First Digital TwinGetting Started with Our First Digital TwinSetting Up a Digital Twin PrototypeBuilding the Digital Twin PrototypeDeployment and Value TrackingEnhancing the Digital Twin
- Chapter 4: Getting Started with Our First Digital Twin -- Planning framework -- Project planning framework -- Solution planning framework -- Validating the problem statement and outcomes -- Exploring the business process for Digital Twin development -- Factoring in technology considerations -- Asset Administration Shell -- Digital Twins Definition Language (DTDL) -- Exploring digital platforms for Digital Twins -- IoT platforms -- Business Process Management platforms -- Analytics and data platforms -- Application platforms -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 5: Setting Up a Digital Twin Prototype -- Identifying a Digital Twin platform -- The perspective of the asset owner -- Required IoT capabilities -- Build versus buy of the capabilities -- Evaluating public cloud, IoT, and specialty platforms for a Digital Twin -- Microsoft Azure Digital Twins -- AWS IoT platforms -- Oracle IoT applications -- Configuration and setup -- Data considerations for your Azure Digital Twin -- Solution architecture -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 6: Building the Digital Twin Prototype -- Technical requirements -- Development process of our Digital Twin -- Wind turbine as our Digital Twin prototype -- Testing framework -- Creating an application to update the Digital Twin prototype in code -- Creating an application to update the Digital Twin prototype in no/low code -- Technical evaluation considerations -- Business validation and understanding -- Summary -- Questions -- Chapter 7: Deployment and Value Tracking -- Functional testing of the Digital Twin -- Testing the Digital Twin infrastructure -- Testing the Digital Twin applications -- Pilot rollout -- Scope of a pilot implementation -- Success criteria for a pilot phase -- Timeline and phases of a pilot solution -- Presenting pilot results -- Full deployment -- Full-scale implementation approaches
- Wind-farm Digital Twin rollout -- Value proposition and tracking -- Summary -- Questions -- Section 3: Enhancing the Digital Twin -- Chapter 8: Enhancing the Digital Twin -- Defining the Twin of Twins -- The role of standards -- Setting the vision -- Evaluating the first Digital Twin in the full system -- Justification for the phased approach -- Quantification of the benefits -- Identifying related Digital Twins -- Planning Composite Twins -- Digital twins for hydropower -- The Digital Twin of a solar farm -- A solar PV and wind turbine hybrid -- New innovations in renewable power generation -- Enhancements and next steps -- Center of Excellence for Digital Twins -- Summary -- Questions -- Recommended reading -- Interview on Digital Twins with William (Bill) Ruh, CEO of Lendlease Digital -- Interview on Digital Twins with Anwar Ahmed, CTO at GE Renewable Energy -- Other Books You May Enjoy -- Index
- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Foreword -- Contributors -- About the reviewers -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Section 1: Defining Digital Twins -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Digital Twin -- History of the Digital Twin -- Origin of the Digital Twin concept -- What is a Digital Twin? -- Types of Digital Twins -- Characteristics of a Digital Twin -- Models and data -- Digital Thread -- Industry use of Digital Twins -- Digital Twin stakeholders -- Industrial Digital Twin applications -- The value proposition of Digital Twins -- Reduce complexity to improve understanding -- Transformational value -- Value at stake -- Identifying opportunities -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Planning Your Digital Twin -- Key criteria -- Expected business outcomes -- The manufacturing industry -- Supply chain management -- Prerequisites for the Digital Twin -- Organizational factors -- Digital technologies and talent -- Ecosystems and alliances -- Organizational structure and culture -- The outcomes of organizational agility -- Technological needs -- The framework and the model -- Connectivity -- Data capture and storage -- Edge computing -- Algorithms and analytics -- Platforms and applications -- Visualization -- Insights and actions - a human in the loop and field services -- Feedback - product feedback, processes/operations, and training -- Software development paradigms and low code -- Summary -- Questions -- Section 2: Building the Digital Twin -- Chapter 3: Identifying the First Digital Twin -- Evaluating Digital Twin candidates -- Industrial conglomerates -- Large enterprises in a single industry sector -- Public sector -- Software and public cloud providers -- ISVs -- SIs -- Niche companies -- Roles and responsibilities -- Experimentation and interactions -- Agile Manifesto -- The finalist -- Summary -- Questions
- Building Industrial Digital Twins: Design, develop, and deploy digital twin solutions for real-world industries using Azure Digital Twins

