Pairing industrial AI autonomy and human control
Living digital twins are helping industrial plants run more like living systems, and setting the stage for industries that work in sync.
Living digital twins are helping industrial plants run more like living systems, and setting the stage for industries that work in sync.
The short version
- Most people associate industrial environments with cold steel and clockwork machinery.
- Functionally, though, a plant or factory is more like a living thing: It has a pulse, even a metabolism.
- It goes through wear and tear as it ages, and signs of deteriorating health often show up as barely perceptible irregularities.
What happened
Rob McGreevy, chief product officer at AVEVA, likens newer, AI-infused digital twins to organisms that grow and evolve. These “living” versions are adaptive, evergreen models of a plant’s assets and processes.
Why it matters
Because they keep pace with live conditions and connect systems that once ran in isolation, they provide a previously missing layer of visibility and orchestration that better reflects the organic rhythms of the facility itself.
Summary by Nerd News Network. Read the full article at MIT Technology Review — AI via the links above and below.