Building Industrial Digital Twins: Design, develop, and deploy digital twin solutions for real-world industries using Azure Digital Twins

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
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
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