Evaluating Digital Twin candidates

In this section, we will identify the prospects for industrial Digital Twins and then evaluate the one we want to move forward with. This evaluation has to be done in the context of your company or initiative, to be relevant to you. We will do the evaluation for multiple scenarios here and that should help for a wide range of cases.

Here are a few settings where a Digital Twin may be evaluated:

• An industrial conglomerate
• A large enterprise in a single industry sector
• A public sector entity
• A large software company or public cloud provider
• An Independent Software Vendor (ISV)
• A large System Integrator (SI) or management consulting firm
• A small/niche service company

Let's now look at each of these scenarios.

Industrial conglomerates

Companies that would fit in this category are General Electric (GE), Siemens, ABB, Hitachi, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, Schneider Electric, Bosch, and Emerson Electric...