The global scope of the design today went to the line, for which the current is not practical work with a particular physical object, and its digital copy. We are talking about the creation of processes, analysis and management of the so-called digital counterparts. These processes ultimately make it possible to reduce the risks and costs while working with real physical asset - be it nuclear reactors, certain pieces of military equipment or production lines.
Modern theorists digital counterparts give very confusing definition of this concept. If you try to simplify, under the digital counterpart understood virtual replica (copy) Real exploited the physical object (asset) in the form of multi-tasking (multidomain) simulation. Ultimately, this simulation allows you to get data about the operating conditions of the very real object, that simply can not be checked in again, the real world.
One example - creating digital doubles (CD) hypersonic weapons, missile engines, ships and aircraft. And in this case, the CSD allow real-time to calculate all the main parameters of the test weapons (and not only) to obtain the data of interest developers.
But in the example described and simplified the definition of the CSD is not the most important part. Digital double should "own" to interact with the physical "original", and vice versa, And options such interactions can be somewhat. Physical "original" must transmit information about themselves CD, and that already demonstrate the analysis of data in the interest of designers. Today, all this is already his definition. IT industry Internet of Things (IIT – ai-ai-th or IIoT - ai-ai-th-th).
Global rank analytical agencies Industrial Internet of Things to the fastest growing systems in the world. IIT in the first half 2019 year entered the top three global technological trends along, eg, with embedded artificial intelligence technology in production activities. In this case, IIT market integration with the digital market increasing twins truly incredible pace. This rate was not even a conventional («Information») Internet in any of the periods of its existence. growth rates for digital doubles as part of the Industrial Internet of Things for the year amounted to 40 percent! While investment volumes billions of dollars, but with this growth in the coming years, the account will go for at least tens of billions.
On the application of digital doubles and Industrial Internet of Things in a modern design
One of the areas already mentioned above - is the sphere of energy. CSD simulate performance of individual units and units NPP, GES. They allow you to transfer performance data, that allows you to calculate the processes in a few steps forward. In the language of cinema, CSDs in this case - a kind of avatar of the real device. It allows you to calculate its operating modes, identify the potential for problems, “weak spots” exploited (or preparing for operation) sample.
To evaluate the significance of the CSD in IIoT format, you can spend a little thought experiment. Night 26 April 1986 of the year, The Chernobyl nuclear power plant. No accident could not happen by definition, But initially the experiment would be committed to the digital copies of the reactor, that would simply transmit a signal about its final fatality. Little of, system would choose the most appropriate steps for conducting an experiment with bringing the risk on a real power unit to virtually zero.
In addition to the military and energy industry relevant digital counterparts in medicine. This industry - a real "Eldorado" for those companies, who are willing to invest in the Industrial Internet of Things. Digital doppelganger would allow to determine the efficiency of the final development of drugs in relation to the average patient with a particular disease. Little of, CSD is able to allow the practitioner to choose disease treatment strategy, assuming, that the digital system calculates millions of various parameters of the impact of drugs and other therapeutic tools and resources.
Today, the world is implemented system for creating digital doubles and management. It is the brainchild of the American company Ansys Inc., which is called Ansys Twin Builder.
And it is unlikely that the company considered in terms of creating ultramodern product is not a competitor in the near future. Hopefully, that will be primarily Russian competitors, because to miss a new technological revolution today – forget about competitiveness in this area tomorrow.
Alexei Volodin
