Technology Vision 2021
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World
Unlocking the Power of Massive, Intelligent,
Digital Twins
From insights to action, the path to extraordinary value starts here.
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Today’s digital twins are
at an inflection point.
Broad adoption of digital twin technologies and
their multiplying network effects have created a
mirrored world.
Leaders are starting to
connect massive networks
of intelligent twins, linking
many twins together to
create living models of whole
factories, supply chains,
ports, and cities. They are
creating unbroken threads
of data – fabrics that will
soon be essential to every
enterprise’s digital strategy.

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Towhatextentareyouusingdigital
twinswithinyourorganization?
8%
Extensive
We are using intelligent
digital twins to fully
orchestrate devices,
processes, decisions,
etc., throughout the
organization and
among our real
products or services.
28%
Advanced
We are using intelligent
digital twins for advanced
uses like, but not limited
to, prediction and
extracting insights.
56%
Moderate
We are using digital
twins for things like
simulation and testing,
but there is still
opportunity to utilize
them further.
8%
Minimal
We are using digital
twins, but not leveraging
much of its potential
(e.g., data visualization
but not extracting
insights and not for
predictive maintenance.

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Moving toward a digital representation of
an entire supply chain.
Experiments and initiatives
emerging today signal a
mirrored world is not far off.
Unilever is developing intelligent twins for their
factories. The company uses data streaming from
connected machines to track facility metrics, and then
uses machine learning to simulate operational changes
to improve production efficiency and flexibility.

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To gain the insights and
greater agility that the
mirrored world promises,
you first need a strong
data foundation.
When intelligent twins are connected in mirror
environments, they are a powerful way to turn data
into actionable, big-picture insights. But incomplete
or incorrect data will lead to false conclusions.
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90%
of executives believe their organization
requires a mission control, or central
intelligence hub, to gain insights into
complexities and model our organization’s
processes, people and assets.

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COVID-19hasmadehistoric
dataincreasinglyunreliable,
raisinganewsetofchallenges.
It took just one week at the end of February 2020 for the top ten
Amazon search terms in multiple countries to shift to COVID-19
related products. Sudden and widespread changes like this can
send machine learning models off course, impacting:
Supply
chains
Marketing
plans
Inventories

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83%
of executives agree that COVID-19 has
punctuated the strategic importance of
digital twins and digital threads to better
enable enterprise-wide agility at every
level of my organization.

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Ontopofhistoricdata,
businesseswillneed a
strategyforreal-time
datacollection.
e.GO, an electric vehicle company, is working
with Ericsson and Vodafone to develop a digital
twin of the entire e.GO factory. Even the tools
used by human workers are connected and smart,
automatically adjusting to provide the right
torque needed for a particular task.

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Only 11% of executives
estimate that 80% of the data
provided through IoT devices
and/or sensors in their
organizations is fully utilized.

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Building a risk-free playground to explore
new product ideas, strategize for many possible
futures, and explore limitless “what-if” scenarios.
Expansivenetworksof
digitaltwinswillincrease
real-timeagility.
Big data company TIBCO is partnering with Mercedes-AMG
Petronas Formula One Team, to improve race performance.
This partnership lets the team test several vehicle factors in
a digital twin simulation, helping them build the optimal car
without unnecessary track time.

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Leading organizations will start
to push the boundaries of the
duality of the real world and
virtual world, including the need
for persistency and seamless
navigation through both.

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Exploring previously unheard-of opportunities
with the simulation power of digital twins.
Intelligent twins give
enterprises entirely new
ways of conducting R&D.
Oklahoma State University and Ansys explored using the power
of digital twins to better target tumors. They developed digital
twins of human lungs, then simulated drug delivery models,
ultimately leading to 90 percent increase in lung drug delivery
efficacy using digital twins.
they found a delivery
method that may let
doctors increase the
accuracy of drug
delivery to 90 percent—
much higher than the
20 percent common
for conventional
aerosol methods.

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Businesses can use simulations to model
and predict dynamic and sophisticated
behavior of bad actors.
Intelligenttwinsimulation
helpsbusinessesplanfor
emergingrisks.
Facebook has created a threat
simulator, called WW, based on the
company’s code base. WW uses bots
to mimic both innocent users as well
as bad actors, allowing Facebook
engineers to implement various
strategies to stop this behavior.

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65%
of executives expect their organization’s
investment in intelligent digital twins to
increase over the next three years.

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Porsche has teamed up with material suppliers and
blockchain provider Circularise to build a digital
thread across the entire supply chain, enabling
material traceability and tracking other sustainability
metrics like carbon footprint and water savings.
Businesses weaving a
tapestry of digital twins
find it easier to create value
with ecosystem partners.
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85%
of executives report that digital twins are
becoming essential to their organization’s
ability to collaborate in strategic
ecosystem partnerships.

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Decision
Points

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DecisionPoints
Fortify: Is your business prepared for
the mirrored world?
Audit your data practices. Evaluate what
tools and technologies are being used
and where data is being warehoused to
deconstruct data silos. Identify where
COVID-19 may have impacted historic data
and its ability to drive accurate insights.
Prioritize building streaming analytics
capabilities. Digital twins will need a
healthy data “supply chain” to be effective.
Embed sensors in physical products and
spaces, and invest in solutions that deliver
rapid ingestion, preparation, and analysis
of the data generated.

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DecisionPoints
Extend: How can digital twins transform your
innovation process?
Develop a list of key use cases for where
digital twins will generate the most impact
in your enterprise. Reimagine how product
development cycles would look with digital
twins at the center.
Integrate intelligence capabilities with
digital twin efforts. Pilot generative design
or synthetic data solutions to explore
how they enhance design, testing,
and product development.

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DecisionPoints
Reinvent: How will your enterprise engage
wider ecosystems of digital twins?
Design twins from the outset
with the intent to connect
them across the business or
ecosystem. Make API strategy
a priority when developing
digital twins. This includes
evaluating and including
external (or open) sources
of data, as well as ensuring
construction of an API for
the twin itself.
Have ecosystem-scale
thinking lead digital twin
strategies. Target large
systems as the long-term
target digital twins. Think
entire offices, supply chains,
and more. Use individual
twins to gain greater visibility
into larger collaborations.
Short-list potential digital
twin-driven partnerships.
This could be collaboratively
building a new twin or
tapping into an already
established network of
digital twins.

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