Recommended reads

Hidden deep within the avalanche of hyperbolic AI-centric sales and marketing ‘solutions’ to contemporary problems of data and information management, is a gold nugget. Ontology.

This article looks at how Intelligent Digital Twins can be used for the realization of the autonomous Cyber-Physical Production Systems.

An overview of potential benefits of digital twins to rail build and operations

An article heralding the launch of a scaled oil & gas digital twin involving up to 300 workers processing up to 250,000 B/D of oil

Several years old, this article still bears reading because the issues involve in smart manufacturing remain the same. A single phrase sums this up: “from the perspective of evolution, convergence is also the inevitable trend”

An article that discusses interoperability from the perspective of healthcare information flowing seamlessly between disparate devices and IT systems.

Data quality management systems are thoroughly researched but the advent of Big Data might pose some serious questions pertaining to the applicability of existing data quality concepts. This paper aims to investigate various components and activities forming part of data quality management such as dimensions, metrics, data quality rules, data profiling and data cleansing.

An article principally focused on Connectivity but also acknowledging the importance of Interoperability.

The SAS content piece advocates that heart of a digital twin is analytics. Not whether you can collect the data, but whether you can turn it from data to valuable transformative information.

An interesting article advocating for digital twin adoption as a step on from BIM.

This article outlines digital twin benefits with a case study of a company deploying warehouse automation software.

An article outlining data interoperability history and challenges faced by the US Department of Defense.

The Digital Twin Capabilities Periodic Table (CPT) is an architecture and technology agnostic requirements definition framework. It is aimed at organizations who want to design, develop, deploy and operate digital twins based on use case capability requirements versus the features of technology solutions.

An fairly generic introduction to Siemens thinking around digital twins—focused on product, production, and performance.

A short, light opinion piece on the advantages of moving BIM to the cloud.

An overview of the drive for consistent principles for digital twins for the built and natural environments in Australia and New Zealand, with several useful links – including to the Principles themselves

A case study from Xylem with quantified ROI from the implementation of Xylem smart wastewater technology for the City of South Bend, Indiana.

An introduction to the cost of unstructured data.

The key is in the title – 8 individual perspectives on the value of interoperability.

This paper seeks to outline a business case for interoperability as an enabler of business transformation - providing transparency, agility, productivity, experience and scalability.

A beginners guide to structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data.