DIGITAL TWIN TECHNOLOGY


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By digitally replicating real-life facilities, processes and products, digital twins allow confectionery manufacturers to address some of their most pressing challenges. Suzanne Callander reports.


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espite being a fairly young concept,


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twin technology is rapidly becoming a valuable solution for the operational    Put simply, a digital twin


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is a digital copy of an entity that exists in the physical world. This can be factory, a production line, a machine or even a confectionery product. Digital twins can be traced back to the 1970s when NASA applied a similar technology – a twin of the command module and electrical system – on the Apollo 13 space mission. Ever


    been evolving, but it wasn’t until the early 2000s  “When mapping the real world into a digital twin, the technology uses real-time information to replicate not only the physical object but also the inherent processes,


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