Applying Standards to Information Centric Operations
4 DIGITAL TWINS CASE STUDIES
In the Digital Twins arena firms like ExxonMobil and Nextspace demonstrate a data-centric separation of concerns , with data being maintained separately from its projection for consumption .
4.1 CASE STUDY : EXXONMOBIL
The oil company ExxonMobil has been developing a system called the “ Digital Reality Ecosystem ”( DRE ) 20 . This is a Digital Twin initiative , addressing the provision of digital twins that unify data from surveys , scans , design artifacts and other sources . The main goal of this system has been to be able to unify a full range of information assets , including 2D assets like diagrams , 3D assets , reality capture and so on ( Figure 4-1 ).
Figure 4-1 : Example data formats from ExxonMobil case study .
To achieve this , the approach to digital twins is broken into three aspects : Simulation , Visualization and Integration . Data is maintained independently of its consumption . Data from CAD systems , PDF , design models , specifications and so on is stored as one central resource , from which information is consumed by the end user in one of several virtualization environments , such as Unreal Engine 21 . The key feature of this data-centricity is the separation of form from
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Daughtry , K ., Dhanormchitphong , A . ( 2023 ). Case Study : ExxonMobil ’ s Journey with the Digital Reality Ecosystem . Augmented Enterprise Summit , 2023 . Available : https :// www . youtube . com / watch ? v = iYTzml2gFuM & ab _ channel = BrainXchange
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Unreal Engine . Available : https :// www . unrealengine . com / en-US 20
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