I have mixed feelings toward standards organizations and consortia. Some engineers use their work to build systems. I’m never sure what the final benefit is. Some have built technology in everyday use—OPC, ODVA, FieldComm (HART, FDT), Profinet. Some publish papers that I have hear practical outcomes emanating from.
Yet, I still report on some of these. You never know how some engineers may benefit from the work while building their systems.
This news (I’m catching up on news that came my way while traveling and thinking about what I learned there) comes from The Digital Twin Consortium (DTC), a unit of the Object Management Group. My last two trips and several subsequent interviews and press events all worked in the term Digital Twin somewhere in the discussion. So, it’s relevant.
The Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) published a whitepaper titled Spatially Intelligent Digital Twin Capabilities and Characteristics to help business executives, enterprise, business, and solution architects, system designers, and developers understand the base concept of spatial information relative to the capabilities and characteristics used to describe locational intelligence in the context of digital twin capabilities. The concepts described in the whitepaper apply to a broad spectrum of digital twin use cases, industries, and disciplines.
The whitepaper provides organizations guidance to:
- Document the capabilities and resulting value streams provided through the ability to visualize, understand, and analyze the geospatial locational characteristics of real-world entities and conditions.
- Understand the distinction between different forms of locational representations, including geometric (3D models), spatial, and geospatial models.
- Document the key characteristics of locational representations in a digital twin so organizations can consistently capture locational attributes, enabling digital twin system-to-system integration.
- Capture the Spatially Intelligent Digital Twin’s locational characteristics in the context of capabilities using the DTC’s Capabilities Periodic Table (CPT).
By completing the steps outlined in the white paper, organizations can define locational capabilities and data requirements for their digital twins. They can design, develop, and operate digital twins that meet organizational needs and provide business value.
The Digital Twin Consortium Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations (AECO) Working Group prepared the whitepaper. Download the DTC website’s Spatially Intelligent Digital Twin Capabilities and Characteristics whitepaper. Become a DTC member and join the global leaders in driving digital twin evolution and enabling technology. DTC is a program of Object Management Group.
