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Digital Twins: More Than
Just a Buzzword

Digital twins have gained popularity in many industries. While some may claim to have digital twins, the reality is that not all implementations fully capture the concept.

At Vidya, we’ve been at the forefront of this technology for over a decade. Our expertise is tailoring digital twins to specific client needs, ensuring optimal operational adherence. With multiple use cases in asset integrity and performance management, we’ve proven the transformative power of this technology.

The Digital Twin: A Revolutionary Concept

Originally conceived by Michael Grieves in 2002 for Project Lifecycle Management (PLM), the digital twin has evolved into a versatile technology with applications extending far beyond its initial scope. While it remains a cornerstone of PLM, businesses across various industries have recognized its potential to streamline processes and enhance operations.

Differentiating Digital Twins from Simulations

It’s crucial to distinguish between digital twins and simulations. While simulations create hypothetical scenarios, digital twins provide real-time representations of physical assets, enabled by continuous data exchange between the real and virtual worlds.

Levels of Digital Twin Integration between digital and reality

Regardless of the level, all digital twins share the common characteristic of representing an existing asset digitally. The ability to exchange data effectively distinguishes one model from another. Learn more >

Digital Twin models

Why Digital Twins have failed in the past

Despite the growing interest, the widespread adoption of digital twins has been hindered by factors such as:

  • Complexity: Implementing digital twins requires significant and often not available technical expertise.
  • Data Quality: Lack of accuracy and reliability of data for building effective digital twins.
  • Integration Challenges: integrating digital twins with legacy systems, often built on disparate technologies, can present significant technical challenges, leading to delays and increased costs.
  • Lack of Standardization: The absence of standardized frameworks and methodologies can create barriers to adoption.
  • Limited Practical Application: Many existing digital twin solutions fail to address the specific and pressing challenges faced by industries, often lacking the necessary depth and relevance to deliver tangible value.
  • Lack of Scalability: Historically, many digital twin projects have been tailored to solve singular problems, requiring significant effort and resources to create new twins for each new challenge. Few initiatives have proposed agnostic digital twins capable of addressing broader issues.

Industrial Digital Twins: Vidya’s Approach

The term “digital twin” has become somewhat oversaturated and even met with disinterest.

Many believe a digital twin is simply a digital representation or data dump, failing to grasp its full potential.

Vidya’s industrial digital twin solutions are designed to deliver tangible business value by addressing specific challenges. Our unique approach leverages AI throughout the entire process, from development to production.

It empowers users to go beyond viewing reality capture data, offering a deep understanding of spatial information and business processes. By infusing artificial intelligence, and simulation, managers can predict and support integrity and performance routines.

This comprehensive spatial context, integrated with Digital Twin, enables the system to identify existing asset conditions. Users can easily view and share any data from any source, and access enhanced resolution of reality data with a semantic relationship.

Vidya’s spatial computing approach empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their assets. By leveraging AI and advanced spatial technologies, users can establish accurate information directly from assets in the field, including asset tags, documentation, and condition assessments.

This enhanced spatial awareness enables informed decision-making, accelerated problem-solving, improved safety and efficiency, and optimized resource allocation.

How does it work?

Vidya built a platform with different technology stacks using digital twin as a backbone. The system is employed to detect, map, quantify, and qualify any kind of data, or issue. In this manner, managers can have precise data available for deciding how to act with contextualized operational data.

The system’s interoperability allows it to deliver value to many challenges of integrity management in the operation and maintenance of process plants. For each different challenge, Vidya has created an application.

Which problems our technology solves?

Vidya’s technology is designed to tackle critical integrity and performance challenges within process plants, including:

  • Corrosion and Material Degradation
    Detecting and quantifying corrosion rates, identifying areas of significant deterioration, and predicting remaining asset life.

  • Structural Integrity
    Assessing the structural health of critical components, such as vessels, pipelines, and support structures, to prevent failures and optimize maintenance schedules.

  • Hull Integrity and Thickness
    Monitoring hull thickness, identifying corrosion rates, contextualizing data for engineer analysis, and predicting potential breaches to ensure vessel safety and operational efficiency.

  • Subsea Integrity
    Continuously monitoring the health of subsea assets, including pipelines, risers, and subsea production systems.

  • Process Safety
    Identifying and mitigating potential hazards, such as leaks, spills, and fires, to ensure safe and reliable operations.

  • Reduced Personnel Onboard
    Minimizing the number of personnel required on-site through remote monitoring and diagnostics, reducing operational costs and improving safety.

  • Reduced Time for Inspections and Maintenance Planning Accelerating inspection and maintenance processes by automating data collection, analysis, and decision-making, optimizing resource allocation and minimizing downtime.

  • Maintenance Management
    Field technicians equipped with mobile apps to streamline inspections, data collection, and work order management with seamless CMMS Integration.

  • Critical Equipment Monitoring
    Continuously monitoring the performance of critical equipment, such as pumps, compressors, and turbines, to detect deviations and prevent unplanned downtime.

Vidya System Platform Capabilities

To make informed decisions about Asset Integrity, industrial operations require a comprehensive and dynamic understanding of their physical assets. Vidya’s Industrial Digital Twin offers a complete solution by providing real-world visualization, predictive analytics, and virtual simulations. This enables industries to effectively manage risks, optimize maintenance schedules, and ensure the long-term reliability and performance of their assets.

Semantic 3D

Custom dashboards

Interoperability (API’s)

Computer Vision

Analytics for time
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Mobile App for
field activities

Simulations and
animations on 3D

Search and Generative
AI assistant

Filters & Heatmaps

Work orders manager

Integrated EDMS

Alerts automation

Vidya’s Track Record

Vidya’s been at the forefront of digital twin development for the operation and maintenance of process industries.

24 assets

were built as digital twins worldwide

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Target assets: FPSO | Refineries | Floating solar and wind farms | Electric grids | WHP | Wet christmas tree | BOP | Critical equipments | Stack reclaimer | Conveyor belt | Ship loader | Pump jacks|Hull | Subsea pipelines | Substation | Railroads | H2 Facilities

Precise. Proven. Unmatched.

Proven Track Record. Unwavering Accuracy. A level of Fabric Maintenance only Vidya delivers

Vidya Technology is a reference for corrosion management. They have been providing a range of technical solutions, including management softwares and device development. Their expertise in corrosion solutions for the Oil and Gas industry is perfectly proved.

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Vidya is a senior company, they are capable of interacting and overcoming the challenges of working with prominent Oil and Gas companies, such as Ocyan.

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The opportunities and potential offered by the Management System from Vidya stand out for presenting a market differential where management gains significant added value through the provided tools, which are seamlessly integrated with the planning process.

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Vidya’s Awards

Vidya has a history of innovation that’s changed the industry. We’re dedicated to staying ahead of the curve and pushing the boundaries of technology.

1st place, Rising star title and people’s choice awards.

2nd place on BRICS Industrial Innovation Contest 2024 – Contest Track: Artificial Intelligence – Large Language Models

Finalist for Materials Performance – Corrosion Innovation of the year award.

Best Paper on Innovation and Digital Transformation

Vidya’s Awards

Vidya has a history of innovation that’s changed the industry.
We’re dedicated to staying ahead of the curve and pushing the boundaries of technology
.

1st place, Rising star title and people’s choice awards

2nd place on BRICS Industrial Innovation Contest 2024 – Contest Track: Artificial Intelligence – Large Language Models

Finalist for Materials Performance – Corrosion Innovation of the year award.

Best Paper on Innovation and Digital Transformation

See Vidya’s Digital Twin in action

At Vidya Technology, we’re passionate about helping businesses achieve real-world results through the power of Artificial Intelligence, Digital Twins and Asset Performance Management (APM). Whether you’re facing challenges in the upstream, marine, or mining sector, our team of specialists is here to listen and develop a customized solution.

Beyond a digital solution, we deliver a digital twin in 30 days. By completing the forms we can:

  • Showcase our technology: Discover how we can build you a digital twin to support your challenges, saving you valuable time and resources.
  • Demonstrate real-world results: See firsthand the impact we’ve achieved for similar companies facing the same challenges.
  • Craft a pilot plan: We’ll work together to identify how our solution can specifically address your needs.
  • Understand your challenges: We’ll listen closely to your top concerns and the current challenges you’re facing.
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