Power engineers will get access to digital twins

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According to a study by the international consulting company McKinsey & Company, product developers using digital twins in their enterprises have reduced overall development time by 20-50%, reducing costs – enterprises have reduced the number of expensive pre-production prototypes from an average of two or three to one.

“Companies report that products that start development with a digital twin have 25% fewer errors when it goes into production because developers can do much of the testing and validation work in a virtual environment,” according to researchers at McKinsey & Company.

"Digital twins are a model of italy whatsapp resource the operational process at a facility that allows for measuring deviations and adjusting the facility's operation through feedback," explains Andrey Kolesnikov, director of the Internet of Things Association.

According to him, digital twins work on the basis of IoT: a real industrial facility transmits data to its digital copy, thanks to which engineers monitor, see faults in real time and control the facility.

As Andrey Kolesnikov explains, applied twins used at enterprises in Russia are divided into two types: those that Russian manufacturers create simultaneously with the products – aircraft engines, electric motors, etc.; and those digital twins that are a digital copy of foreign products, “superimposed” on their physical model. According to Andrey Kolesnikov, such options are offered by some Russian software developers, however, as he notes, this area is not very developed yet.

Ekaterina Dmitrovich, head of marketing at PROSTOR Laboratory LLC, reported that the company, being a developer of software for the electric power industry, offers, among other things, the concept of digital twins: "In our PROSTOR platform, there is the ability to create digital twins of generation facilities. Digital twins are a tool for solving certain problems in the electric power industry."

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Alexander Zhizhankov, head of the development of information systems and business applications at CHESCA LLC (system integrator CESCA), explains that any large production facility – a plant, a thermal power plant, a warehouse – cannot exist without such technologies. According to him, in Russia, technologies related to digital twins are called the SCADA system: they are used to monitor and control equipment and production processes.

"Leading representatives of this area are: InSAT, Wiren Board, Farbe Elektronik, Zyfra, Satel, RS Balance," said Alexander Zhizhankov. According to him, the result of using the SCADA system is production volumes acceptable by modern standards, traceability, transparency and ease of storage of inventory items (products), labor safety, minimization of human intervention and reduction of labor costs.

Vladislav Turkin, Development Director of Softline Group (Softline Digital), reported that many industrial enterprises in Russia, including metallurgical, mining, chemical and petrochemical, widely use various digital solutions that are components of digital twins.

“The main objective of a digital twin is to optimize technological processes: increase the productivity of installations, reduce production costs, and improve the planning of various types of enterprise activities,” he explains.

As Vladislav Turkin notes, digital twins are a platform for collecting, accumulating, storing and analyzing information from various data sources using various digital technologies, such as the industrial Internet of Things, computer vision, machine learning, and simulation modeling. According to him, the platform aggregates data, processes, models and uses them to optimize technological and other business processes.

"Softline is developing a platform for industrial enterprises called BaseLine. It performs functions for collecting, storing and visualizing data for industrial companies. We offer to use this product, developed by our specialists in Russia," added Vladislav Turkin.