Engineering Service

Digital Twin Development for Industrial Assets

Build a physics-grounded digital twin that links live sensor data to your simulation models β€” enabling predictive maintenance, energy optimization, what-if scenario analysis, and virtual prototyping without relying on generic enterprise platforms. Built by engineers who understand the underlying physics, not only the software layer.

Expected Outcomes

  • Predictive maintenance alerts before failures occur, based on model-driven condition assessment
  • Real-time process visibility connecting live sensor data to simulation outputs
  • What-if scenario analysis for process changes, energy decisions, and equipment upgrades
  • Virtual prototyping to validate design or process changes before physical implementation
  • Reduced downtime and energy waste through model-driven scheduling and intervention

What's in Scope

  • Sensor data ingestion and real-time integration pipelines
  • Physics-based simulation models coupled to live process data
  • Dashboard interfaces for monitoring, alerting, predictive maintenance, and decision support
  • What-if scenario tools for process and equipment change analysis
  • Digital twin validation against historical and operational data

What we've built

Real implementations in this service area

Delivered

Thermal digital twin for annealing furnace

A physics-based digital twin integrating thermocouple sensor data with a transient thermal model β€” predicting temperature fields across coil cross-sections and supporting recipe decisions for energy-constrained operations.

Delivered

Vibration-based structural monitoring twin

A structural health monitoring digital twin for an automotive test rig β€” ingesting multi-channel accelerometer data through SigProc, computing fatigue damage indicators, and alerting on condition changes.

Delivered

Physics-calibrated process model with sensor link

A simulation model calibrated to live plant sensor data β€” providing process condition estimates at unmeasured locations and supporting what-if analysis for process changes.

What this could look like for you

Realistic use cases we could build in this domain

Possible use case

Rotating machinery predictive maintenance twin

A digital twin tracking vibration, temperature, and load signatures of rotating equipment β€” using physics-informed degradation models to predict remaining useful life and maintenance windows.

Possible use case

Chemical reactor digital twin

A first-principles reactor model linked to flow, temperature, and composition sensors β€” enabling real-time yield prediction and what-if analysis for feed composition or setpoint changes.

Possible use case

Building energy management twin

A thermal and energy digital twin of a commercial building β€” integrating HVAC sensor data with dynamic thermal models to optimize setpoints, predict comfort levels, and reduce energy cost.

Industries We Serve

Metals and heat treatmentAutomotive and heavy machineryEnergy and power systemsIndustrial process engineering

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about this service area and how we approach it.

What is a digital twin?

A digital twin is a real-time software model of a physical asset or process. It ingests sensor data, runs physics-based simulations, and provides actionable predictions for predictive maintenance, quality control, and energy decisions β€” updated continuously as the physical system evolves.

How long does it take to build a digital twin?

A focused digital twin for a single asset or process typically takes 8–16 weeks for an initial working version, depending on model complexity and data availability. We use staged delivery with technical checkpoints to validate the physics and sensor integration early.

What sensors or data sources do we need?

Requirements depend on your process. We assess available instrumentation early in the project and design the twin around realistic data availability β€” including approaches for sparse or irregular sensor data.

How is a custom digital twin different from an Industry 4.0 platform?

Generic Industry 4.0 platforms provide connectivity and dashboards but lack domain-specific physics. A custom digital twin embeds your process physics directly β€” so predictions reflect real thermal, structural, or fluid behavior rather than statistical averages from similar assets.

See it in practice

Review case studies with quantified engineering and process impact across thermal, vibration, and digital twin projects.

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