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Digital Twin

Simulate, optimize and innovate product designs and processes for more efficient, sustainable operations with the industry's most comprehensive digital twin.

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What is a digital twin?

A digital twin is a virtual representation of a physical product, process or system used to simulate, predict and optimize a real-world counterpart. Using real-time data, simulation and modeling techniques, a digital twin mirrors the behavior, characteristics and performance of its physical counterpart. This empowers teams to determine the impact of different designs, conditions and scenarios in less time.

Siemens digital twin rendering showing the exterior of an industrial building.

How can you use a digital twin?

Engineers, designers and experts across the entire product lifecycle benefit from incorporating this technology into their work. Some common uses include:

  • Resource-efficient print and manufacturing simulation
  • Sustainable product design and prototyping
  • Digital asset management
  • Smart supply chain monitoring
  • Optimized, analytics-based performance testing
  • Predictive business operations
Woman using a tablet while interacting with a Siemens digital twin rendering of a pharmaceutical bottle and robotic arm in a virtual manufacturing environment.

Benefits of a digital twin

Achieve new levels of operational efficiency and sustainability from design to delivery.

Sustainability

Create and perfect the right designs faster using digital prototypes to reduce resource waste.

Increased go-to-market times

Reduce production times and solidify the path from concept to release by streamlining processes for virtual design, validation testing and refinement.

Optimized operations

Inform decision making with insights from data generated in real time throughout the virtualization process.

Cost effectiveness

Expand product lifespans, proactively resolve issues and reduce production and post-production costs associated with downtime due to errors, inefficiencies and maintenance.

Resilience

Strengthen the reliability and consistency of products and solidify operations strategies and processes by simulating and testing scenarios, potential disruptions and challenges.

Cross-functional collaboration

Connect teams, tech and processes from design through delivery and foster seamless communication, support and accountability at every step.

Why choose us as your digital twin partner?

Our unique approach — the comprehensive digital twin — is a single virtual representation that connects data, processes and people across your product lifecycles, available within many of the solutions we offer businesses of every size and industry through the Siemens Xcelerator marketplace.

Split-view image of a car manufacturing line showing a Siemens digital twin on the left with wireframe renderings of a car, robotic arms, and components, and the real-world factory on the right with a worker using a laptop next to automated machinery.

Full lifecycle coverage

Connect development, production and operational processes, and enable engineering, design and production teams to work cohesively.

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Real-time integration

Ensure consistency across products, teams and locations within each of your digital threads using up-to-date virtual assets and real-time data across solutions.

Split-view image of a manufacturing facility showing a Siemens digital twin on the left with wireframe renderings of the machine and the real-world factory on the right with a worker using Siemens Simatic HMI software.

Portfolio scalability

Establish and manage a flexible, scalable foundation for your digital twin with the Siemens Xcelerator platform of Siemens, third-party and partner solutions.

Woman wearing a VR headset interacting with a Siemens digital twin of robotic arms in the background.

Industrial metaverse

Pave the way for informed, confident decision making, real-time collaboration and innovation with an immersive environment as a single source of truth.

Customer stories

See how businesses from various industries drove impact across their production lifecycles with digital twin technology.

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NEVS

Watch this video to see how NEVS reduced their assessment cycle time by 50 percent and reduced time needed to identify early-stage design options by 80 percent for their sustainable self-driving mobility solutions using a comprehensive digital twin to automate simulation work and bridge the gap between design and engineering software.

Products: Teamcenter, Simcenter, NX, Polarion, HEEDS

Frequently Asked Questions

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