Digital Twin for Maximizing Optimalization
Mirror your physical facilities and processes based on real-time location data by using a digital twin to help you visualize, evaluate and optimize your asset utilization and improve daily operations. A digital twin gives you greater control over everything that is happening at your facility and leads to a significant increase in efficiency and productivity for your business.
How Does a Digital Twin Work?
A digital twin integrates your historical and current business data with information from our UWB-powered RTLS about the location of your employees, assets and fleet to create an evolving, real-time digital image of a physical object (e.g., your facility) or a process (e.g., a manufacturing process). To discover more about how UWB-powered indoor positioning works, please visit our UWB RTLS page.
The Benefits of a Digital Twin
Visualize Data and Processes in the Context of Your Facility
Digital twin technology enables you to visualize your data and processes in the context of your facility to better understand any changes and see their impact. Many times it is not enough to look just at an Excel sheet as it lacks the relevant information necessary to better understand the given situation. Viewing a 3D model enables you to identify bottlenecks and find optimal solutions to prevent them.
Remote Control and Monitoring
Using digital twin technology enables you to monitor and control your daily operations. Thanks to the combination of sensors and simulations in the digital twin, you can track your work progress, KPIs, overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), and other business-critical data in real-time, even if you are miles away from the physical facility.
Additionally, a digital twin provides you insights into how each machine functions, or when it needs repairing. Faster maintenance and repairs are crucial for improving your overall production efficiency and the digital twin technology allows long-distance service support and asset management, eliminating the need for on-site maintenance personnel and allowing external experts to perform certain tasks, even from remote locations.
Simulate Possible Scenarios and Predict Outcomes
With processes becoming increasingly complex, Digital Twin technology provides you with the unique ability to simulate possible scenarios and consequently predict probable outcomes. Using inputs such as time, product type, available machines, number of personnel and stock, you can simulate different production processes to gain insights into lead time, overall equipment efficiency (OEE), costs, and work in progress (WIP) to optimize your entire production process.
This allows you to test and compare new approaches before introducing them to the real world without ever impacting your production. This speeds up identifying possible flaws, saving you valuable time, and reducing any risks related to the implementation of such a process in the actual production.
Get Real-Time and Historical Insights into Factory Performance
Leverage Digital Twin technology by tracking everything in your facility from processes and products, to fleet, assets and personnel. You not only gain full real-time visibility of your operations but also the possibility to go back in time and review all historical data.
Imagine you need to review an incident that took place a week ago – thanks to Digital Twin traveling in time has never been easier. You can replay historical data in a few simple clicks and get valuable insights into past incidents, operational issues, maintenance data, etc. Additionally, you can use all historical data collected at your facility to predict the remaining life, failure, or maintenance needs of your business-critical assets.
Create a Safer Working Environment
Increase the safety of your employees by taking full advantage of Digital Twin technology. Track the movements of your personnel and fleet (such as forklifts) and create a people-aware environment, where the system can prevent fatal injuries by alerting personnel when entering a dangerous zone or forklift operators when a person suddenly enters their operational zone.
Improve Employee Training Using Virtual Reality
The virtual reality capabilities of a digital twin create the perfect environment for employee training, where employees can make mistakes without the fear of causing damage to company assets or being injured. It increases employee safety and accelerates their training while keeping costs low.
An indoor-tracking-enabled digital twin enables employees to train in a real 1-to-1 environment that mirrors all the situations and traffic happening in your facility in real-time. A great use-case example is the training of forklift drivers who can, thanks to the virtual reality capabilities of your digital twin, experience the real–life traffic of your facility in a risk-free environment.
Real-life Case Studies of Digital Twin
Sewio Partners Delivering Digital Twin
The Benefits of Using Sewio RTLS
30 cm accuracy that allows you the full flexibility and variability of virtual zones without any changes to infrastructure.
Sewio RTLS is fully industry certified to guarantee reliable and scalable performance in even the harshest environments.
Full visibility of your live processes means shorter time-to-value Industry 4.0-ready projects, resulting in optimized workflows, increased production and reduced costs.
One flexible infrastructure suitable for multiple existing and future business cases.
We ensure you find the perfect certified and well-trained partner in your region for your project based on customer/partner fit.
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| “ | Digital twins are becoming a business-critical asset, especially for manufacturers who are looking to gain even greater control over their operations. Thanks to Sewio’s ultra-wideband RTLS technology, they can now get additional insights and data to make the digital twin of their facility an even more efficient tool for business improvement, optimization of manufacturing processes, and visualization.” Ing. Róbert Žalman, Ph.D
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