As businesses increasingly turn to advanced technologies to drive product and sustainability innovations, the digital twin will become essential to engineering teams, says Maria Gkovedarou, engineering information management portfolio expert at AVEVA. The transformative role of digital tools in our personal and professional lives has been widely apparent over the course of the pandemic. Now businesses are looking to digital technologies to leverage business data, solve complex operating challenges and drive innovation across the value chain, with 85% of industrial organizations expecting to invest in digital transformation initiatives over the medium term. Engineering is the beating heart of these digitization initiatives. As Gartner says, i n sectors such as power, nuclear energy, oil and gas, and chemicals, engineering is an equal part of strategic planning exercises alongside information and operations. The intersection of the three provides optimization of any systems’ simulation, design and operation for both the physical and digital equivalents of an entity. Engineers must make sense of vast amounts of industrial data to manage time, expenses and reporting across the organization. This data may be contained in line lists, piping and instrumentation diagrams, spreadsheets, documents, drawings, 3D models, and laser scanning and text files. It may be […]