Universal mCloud Launches New 3D Digital Twin Capabilities with First Customer Engagements

Thinking outside the box and exploring innovative as-a-service business models is a surefire way to remain profitable in today’s ever-evolving digital world. With a digital twin network you share with your customer, you can monitor the condition of your asset around the clock and accurately track how much air your customer consumes. This reliable and transparent method ensures you’re always standing by to repair the asset, if necessary, and charging the proper amount of money each billing cycle. In addition to selling your equipment and installing it at your customer’s site, you offer to maintain it throughout the asset life cycle and charge fees based on air consumption rather than a fixed rate. That’s why companies must constantly look for new ways to re-imagine existing business models and generate revenue.

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• The term digital twin refers to a virtual representation of a physical object, product, service or system that spans its life cycle, is updated with real-time data and informs actionable insights through the use of simulations, machine learning and reasoning.
• A digital twin simulates not only the design and manufacture of a product, but how that product will perform throughout is life.
• The digital twin interactive model will replicate the intricacies of Morrisons’ national operations.
• This approach enables rapid testing of strategies and direct assessment of trade-offs, leading to improvements in efficiency, resilience and customer service.
• Digital twins give you the ability to enable data-driven decision making, automate business processes, increase collaboration, and create new business models.

While an increasing number of companies are creating digital twins of their own supply chains, they are missing an opportunity to also build a “digital twin of the customer” (DToC), mirroring conditions at retailers, consumers, patients, or machine customers, the firm said. That nascent technology has the potential to revolutionize demand forecasting accuracy, vastly improve customer experience, and serve as a critical input to enhance the use of AI/ML tools. Customer journey maps pinpoint all of the intersections a customer has with a brand, including their pain points. Voice of customer initiatives aggregate the customer’s own words from social media posts, feedback, reviews, surveys, customer service tickets and more.

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Stara launched a profitable new service that provides farmers with real-time insight detailing the optimal conditions for planting crops and improving farm yield. Digital twins positively impact companies as a whole, providing insights to drive critical business decisions such as the development of leading-edge products and services and maximized ad spends and marketing activities, leading to a better overall customer experience. At its core, a digital twin is a virtual replica of a physical asset, process or system.

As Jones suggested, many brands are using new identity resolution functionality that puts together pieces of data to create a holistic view of the customer. This enables them to better understand what a specific customer purchases, how frequently they buy, how much money they spend and how often they frequent the brand’s website. This data can then be used along with DToC to create a more complete digital persona.

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Fallmann further explained DToCs are created by connecting scattered data from different silos, departments and data sources, which includes consolidating unstructured and structured information. Consider how product testing simulations have been done for decades by brands testing new products and services. Imagine if there was a digital version of a customer, based on all of the touchpoints the customer has had with a brand and its products and services. New products and services, websites, apps and more could be tested using this extremely accurate virtual representation of the customer.

Because data is aggregated from various departments, some of which are siloed, and other data comes from sources that are outdated, unstructured, unformatted or duplicated — bad data is always a risk. “One challenge that can surely be handled with the right solution is detecting bad data. The quality of data is so important in creating the most accurate representations of customers, making it vital for companies to exclude bad data when implementing digital twins across their operations,” said Fallmann. As such, brands should avoid the bandage fix of layering on new security software as an afterthought. In addition to this approach not meeting all your needs, it can also complicate an already complex aspect of your business from a technology standpoint. As often happens when new platforms and systems are introduced, legacy systems are no longer top of mind, and updates and maintenance can lag.

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IKEA creates DToCs by analysing data on customer behaviour and preferences, as well as store traffic patterns and sales performance. This data is used to create a virtual simulation of the customer experience, which can be used to test and optimise different store layouts and merchandising strategies. It currently uses DToCs to design its stores, to create more personalised and convenient shopping experiences. The adoption of digital twin technology in the POS world is not just a trend; it’s a fundamental shift in how retailers manage their operations and engage with their customers. As the technology continues to evolve and become easier to adopt, new and inventive use cases are likely to surface. By outfitting its tractors with IoT sensors, the company can increase equipment performance.

• It isn’t always easy to determine the nature of an issue based on a phone call or chat conversation alone, especially as products and services continue to become more and more complex.
• On the second point, the results showed that over half (62%) of talent prefer more control over their working hours than a higher salary.
• And by coming to your asset’s rescue sooner rather than later, you can avoid serious service interruption or prolonged downtime.
• Brands will create the virtual representation of a customer, which is then synchronized with its physical representation using real-time data inputs and event-stream processing.

With the continued focus on customer experience and the customer journey, brands are under pressure to deliver an exceptional experience to customers across all of the brand’s channels. Digital twins of customers provide brands with an opportunity to gain an even deeper understanding of their customers through simulations based on the customers’ own interactions and history with the brand. Companies such as Siemens are supporting a revolution in food tech with the digital twin serving as the end-to-end applied tool in both the supply chain and product management. Digital twins are timely in their ability to quickly respond to and improve product design, one day potentially anticipating pandemic impacts, or climate, social, trade and geopolitical related implications to food product development and innovation. Digital twins are design thinking in action, emphasising consumer and market-centric innovation ecosystems, which remove the silos between demand signal and production response. Building on this, digital twins can also help retailers polish not only the physical in-store experience but also online.