Digital Twins: distilling science from fiction

Posted on 6 Sep 2017 by The Manufacturer

Once the preserve of critical infrastructure or high-value assets such as gas turbines, digital twinning is now a technique coming to a production line near you.

Danny McMahon of the University of Strathclyde’s Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) discusses the application of digital twins to traditional industries such as whisky production. Digital twins aren’t necessarily a new concept – the term has been around since the turn of the millennium. Digital twins: it’s a concept that sounds…

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