Digital twins are becoming a more mainstream business capability due to advances in cloud infrastructure, edge computing, IoT, distributed data management platforms, and machine learning capabilities. To bring digital twin capabilities to companies, CIOs and IT leaders need to understand that OT is a different world than IT and a perfect digital twin is the merger of both. Digital twins have operational benefits for optimizing production and improving quality, as well as strategic benefits when machine learning on real-world data is used to improve products, services, and business processes. To get started, technologists should research successful deployments, identify stakeholders, understand the data sources, develop a data model, create a proof of concept, and build a roadmap.
