by Zhihan Lyu
Over the last two decades, Digital Twins
(DTs) have become the intelligent representation of future development
in industrial production and daily life. Consisting of over 50 chapters
by more than 100 contributors, this comprehensive handbook explains the
concept, architecture, design specification and application scenarios of
DTs.
As a virtual model of a
process, product or service to pair the virtual and physical worlds, DTs
allow data analysis and system monitoring by using simulations. The
fast-growing technology has been widely studied and developed in recent
years. Featured with centralization, integrity and dynamics, it is
cost-effective to drive innovation and performance. Many fields saw the
adaptation and implementation across industrial production, healthcare,
smart city, transportation and logistics. World-famous enterprises such
as Siemens, Tesla, ANSYS and General Electric have built smart factories
and pioneered digital production, heading towards Industry 4.0.
This
book aims to provide an in-depth understanding and reference of DTs to
technical personnel in the field, students and scholars of related
majors, and general readers interested in intelligent industrial
manufacturing.
