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Comprehensive Digital Twin

Accelerate innovation, sustainable operations and smart decision making across product lifecycles with the industry’s most comprehensive Digital Twin.

What is a digital twin?

A digital twin is a virtual representation of a physical product, process or system used to simulate, predict and optimize a real-world counterpart. Using real-time data, simulation and modeling techniques, a digital twin mirrors the behavior, characteristics and performance of its physical counterpart. This empowers teams to determine the impact of different designs, conditions and scenarios in less time.

Siemens digital twin rendering showing the exterior of an industrial building.

What is a comprehensive digital twin?

The comprehensive Digital Twin is Siemens’ unique approach that integrates every part of a lifecycle into a single source of truth. The necessary technology for these powerful Digital Twins is readily available through Siemens Xcelerator, an open business platform of innovative solutions, software and services from Siemens and a growing ecosystem of partners and sellers.

Ein Mann VR-Brille sitzt vor einem Computer Er hält eine VR-Fernbedienung in der Hand, um eine Traktorkonstruktion in NX Virtual Reality zu betrachten und mit ihr zu interagieren.

How can you use a comprehensive Digital Twin?

Experts across the entire product lifecycle benefit from using Siemens’ comprehensive Digital Twin technology to:

  • Develop a first-time right approach to design
  • Boost sustainability and reduce waste
  • Reduce rework and excess physical prototypes
  • Build unified, agile processes and teams with digital threads
  • Validate designs for better performance and less maintenance
  • Future-proof operations with predictive analytics
Woman using a tablet while interacting with a Siemens digital twin rendering of a pharmaceutical bottle and robotic arm in a virtual manufacturing environment.

What are the benefits of a comprehensive Digital Twin?

Achieve new levels of operational efficiency and sustainability from design to delivery.

Sustainability

Create and perfect the right designs faster using digital prototypes to reduce resource waste.

Improved go-to-market times

Reduce production times and solidify the path from concept to release by streamlining processes for virtual design, validation testing and refinement.

Optimized operations

Inform decision making with insights from data generated in real time throughout the virtualization process.

Cost effectiveness

Expand product lifespans, proactively resolve issues and reduce production and post-production costs associated with downtime due to errors, inefficiencies and maintenance.

Resilience

Strengthen the reliability and consistency of products and solidify operations strategies and processes by simulating and testing scenarios, potential disruptions and challenges.

Cross-functional collaboration

Connect teams, tech and processes from design through delivery and foster seamless communication, support and accountability at every step.

Why choose us as your Digital Twin partner?

The Siemens Xcelerator portfolio includes innovative technology from Siemens, partners and third parties—providing businesses in every industry one platform to find the right scalable, cost-effective solutions that include:

Split-view image of a car manufacturing line showing a Siemens digital twin on the left with wireframe renderings of a car, robotic arms, and components, and the real-world factory on the right with a worker using a laptop next to automated machinery.

Full lifecycle coverage

Connect design, development, production and operational processes into digital threads to boost collaboration, efficiency and agility at every step.

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Real-time integration

Ensure consistency across products, teams and locations within each of your digital threads using up-to-date virtual assets and real-time data across solutions.

Split-view image of a manufacturing facility showing a Siemens digital twin on the left with wireframe renderings of the machine and the real-world factory on the right with a worker using Siemens Simatic HMI software.

Portfolio scalability

Establish and manage a flexible, scalable foundation for your Digital Twin with the Siemens Xcelerator platform of customizable solutions.

Woman wearing a VR headset interacting with a Siemens digital twin of robotic arms in the background.

Industrial metaverse

Pave the way for informed, confident decision making, real-time collaboration and innovation with a powerful, immersive environment where users can interact more efficiently.

Split image showing Siemens Digital Twin concept—on the left, a digital illustration of a robotic arm, and on the right, a real-life factory setting with a smiling engineer holding a tablet and interacting with a physical robotic arm.

Industrial AI

Accelerate and optimize production across your lifecycles using powerful AI tools to automate tasks and process large amounts of data fast.

Customer stories

See how businesses from various industries successfully impacted their production lifecycles with Siemens' comprehensive Digital Twin technology.

Hymer

Watch this video to see how Hymer successfully brought their VisionVenture camper van from design to reality using products from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio to introduce a comprehensive Digital Twin that unified virtual verification, configuration management, work instructions, design renderings and data analytics—reducing the need for physical prototypes by 80 percent and reducing variant derivation time by 65 percent.

Products: Solid Edge, Teamcenter, NX, Simcenter

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