New Testbed initiative to drive innovation in digital twin evolution

The testbed initiative will define digital twin capabilities using measurable KPIs for testing, verification, and validation.

Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) has announced its transformative Digital Twin Testbed initiative, a program for members to develop, test, verify, and validate digital twin systems and related technologies.

Digital Twin Consortium used the existing foundational guidance in creating the testbed. Courtesy: Control Engineering, using information from Digital Twin Consortium

“The DTC Digital Twin Testbed initiative opens new horizons for our members, allowing them to demonstrate how they’re pushing the boundaries of digital twins and enabling technologies,” said Dan Isaacs, GM and CTO of DTC.

The initiative builds on DTC foundational guidance, encompassing technical and business aspects:

“Through the DTC Digital Twin Testbed initiative, Sev1Tech will be able to test the integration of emerging technologies, such as Generative AI, to enhance digital twin capabilities,” said Greg Porter, Solution Architect for Sev1TEch, a member of the DTC Technical Advisory Committee and DTC Steering Committee representative. “This includes AI co-pilots that augment digital twin intelligence and digital twin-based multi-agent generative systems that enable increased autonomy and value.”

The testbed initiative will provide a framework of required digital twin capabilities using measurable key performance indicators (KPIs) for testing, verification, and validation. This includes digital engineering aspects like predictive modeling and simulation accuracy, AI-driven decision making and optimization, real-time synchronization and data integration,  collaboration across systems and data sharing, security protocol implementation and validation, and interoperability across platform.

The DTC Digital Twin Testbed initiative uses the knowledge base of the OMG Industry IoT Consortium (IIC), which previously had more than 20 testbeds.

Edited by Puja Mitra, WTWH Media, for Control Engineering, from a Digital Twin Consortium news release.

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