“ Digital twins allow businesses to create a digital copy of the physical world ”
— Andrew Wright , Partner , Deloitte ’ s consulting practice
adoption can continue as manufacturers move beyond prototyping and truly understand manufacturing through series production .”
Overall , a digital twin has lots of different applications across the lifecycle of a product and can begin to answer questions in real-time that couldn ’ t be answered before , offering a plethora of new , invaluable solutions , considered almost unthought of several years ago . In the coming years , digital twins will likely emerge as one of the leading IT tools in many industries , particularly in manufacturing where it has the potential to revolutionise product development and product testing in a range of areas . This means that in the future , almost every manufactured product could have its own digital twin , assuming it is generating data that can be analysed .
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