The complete digital twin platform for smart and connected products
When it comes to smart products and services, the use of digital twins is a key prerequisite for business success. The IoT platform CONTACT Elements for IoT was designed from the very start to use the digital twin as the database for value-added processes.
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Uncovering a treasure trove with the digital twin
Complex industrial products are a treasure trove of information including sensor data, component structures, service BOMs, product documentation and audit trails. The model structure of the digital twin makes it easier to access and evaluate this data. Gartner predicts that by 2021, 50% of industrial companies will be using digital twins.
Numerous other studies also assume that the importance of smart products will increase significantly in the future and see the digital twin as a central tool for product-related data and information integration – for example, the study entitled “Smart Industrial Products” conducted by the Fraunhofer IPK’s PDM|PLM Competence Center, CONTACT Software and the Association of German Engineers (VDI) (2019). The virtual representations of objects in the field can also be grouped to create environments and fleets to manage entire systems such as wind farms or perform collective operations such as over-the-air updates.
Create seamless business processes with a single source of truth
IoT solutions must provide a precise view of each asset’s state which includes various data from many different sources. Examples are the asset’s field and sensor data, soft- and hardware configuration, 3D models, maintenance history, customer records and more.
Elements for IoT provides a complete single source of truth for the history and the current state of your assets. It delivers truly reliable data for your business processes, for example, precise service and maintenance orders.
Easy automation of condition monitoring and predictive maintenance
Outstanding team data management for the leading
authoring systems
CAD data such as 3D models, drawings and circuit diagrams are central information elements in the development process. With CONTACT Workspaces, you benefit from outstanding CAD and multi-CAD data management for improved collaboration and secure processes in conjunction with the PLM backbone. Use workspaces for cross-company collaboration with partners and suppliers. Use it to exchange CAD and product data more easily and securely.
Synchronize enterprise systems with Catalyst
The open, service-oriented architecture of CIM Database ensures that business processes are consistent with other enterprise-wide IT systems such as SAP. The application ranges from exchanging articles and bills of materials to synchronizing document and project data and supplying different ERP systems in parallel. In accordance with the SOA concept, Catalyst Web Services support direct interaction with other enterprise services using Internet-based protocols.
Connecting IT systems with open interfaces
The challenge facing every IoT solution is the smooth flow of data. In practice, stand-alone systems prevent effective interaction between operational technology (OT) and strategic IT business applications such as PLM and ERP. CONTACT Elements for IoT provides an open infrastructure for connecting OT and IT that synchronizes the data of the digital twin between the systems. Whether this takes place in public clouds like AWS and MS Azure, in a private cloud or in your own data center is irrelevant.