Industry 4.0: Revolution through digital twins and data-centric architecture

Digital twin Breakthrough in virtual engineering

2025-01-24 A guest article by Thomas Meier* | Translated by AI 4 min Reading Time

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Engineers have long dreamed of planning entire factories in digital space. New data-centric architectural approaches are now helping to merge data on a digital twin platform.

Mobile 3D laser scanners can be used to create photorealistic panoramic images, floor plans and point clouds.(Image: BMW/Harry Zdera) — Mobile 3D laser scanners can be used to create photorealistic panoramic images, floor plans and point clouds.
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The Industry 4.0 initiative launched the triumphant advance of digital twins at the Hannover Messe (Germany) in April 2011. The idea was that if the entire life history of a physical object with all its functions could be mapped in a way that could be understood by machines, variant production could be controlled so flexibly that even individual items could be produced cheaply in batch size 1. A dream come true, especially for the automotive industry, which offers customers hundreds of thousands of variants for each model.

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