The Digital Twin for Engineering Applications

We are living through an era of digital transition. Throughout the media, and increasingly in the workplace, it's common to hear discussion related to “Industry 4.0”, “big data” and the “Internet-of-things”. These are broad concepts that can often lack specific details of how they might arise in practice, particularly for engineers. However, within this broader landscape, the concept of a “digital twin” has emerged as a potentially transformative idea for engineers engaged in modelling and simulation.