Enhancements and next steps

Here, we will take a holistic look at the Digital Twin program from the perspective of a company that is adopting and rolling out such a program. We saw in Figure 8.5 a high-level rollout of the Digital Twin solution for the wind farm. Next, let's look at an enhanced and more detailed view in Figure 8.19. The major blocks from the left to the right are as follows:

• Supply chain networks – these are external networks of the supply chain ecosystem consisting of vendors, distributors, and logistics providers. Considering the disruption in the global supply chain during the COVID-19 pandemic, this area is ripe for supply chain and logistics Digital Twins in the near future.
• Enterprise systems – these consist of the Information Technology (IT) systems in the enterprise, such as Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Salesforce.com as Customer Relationship Management (CRM), or the Manufacturing Execution System (MES).
• External...