What this book covers
Chapter 1, Introduction to Digital Twin, describes the concept of Digital Twins and provides a brief history of its origins, and a definition for a common understanding of the Digital Twin concept. It provides an understanding of the use and application of Digital Twins with some industry examples.
Chapter 2, Planning Your Digital Twin, identifies the key criteria to assess the use of a Digital Twin for your specific industrial challenge or opportunity. The chapter addresses prerequisites for Digital Twins and organizational factors to consider.
Chapter 3, Identifying the First Digital Twin, covers the selection of Digital Twin candidates for a prototype, each from the perspective of the type of organization that is evaluating Digital Twins for their use cases.
Chapter 4, Getting Started with Our First Digital Twin, explains the planning framework, how to validate the problem statement and expected outcomes, and the proposed business process for developing your Digital Twin. It identifies the different types of technology platforms that can be used to create the first Digital Twin prototype of a wind turbine.
Chapter 5, Setting Up a Digital Twin Prototype, provides practical step-by-step guidance for selecting and setting up the infrastructure on a cloud platform in preparation for building the Digital Twin prototype in the next chapter.
Chapter 6, Building the Digital Twin Prototype, describes the end-to-end process of building a real-world Digital Twin prototype on the Microsoft Azure Digital Twins platform. The chapter covers the complete development process, including testing, technical evaluation, and business validation steps.
Chapter 7, Deployment and Value Tracking, guides you through the functional testing of the Digital Twin prototype and evaluates different deployment models for scaling the prototype to an operational production solution. The chapter further suggests value tracking approaches that demonstrate the value of the Digital Twin solution to the different stakeholders in an industrial enterprise.
Chapter 8, Enhancing the Digital Twin, describes the possibilities beyond the first Digital Twin prototype. The chapter looks at the "art of possible" with Digital Twins and some of the emerging opportunities for Digital Twins to provide safer, greener, more responsible industrial operations with positive returns on the value at stake for all stakeholders. This chapter goes in depth into the application of Digital Twins for renewable energy generation.