Digital twins and energy waste

Have you ever wondered which is the most important challenge that operators and quality control managers have to handle? To reduce costs.

When having this objective, the first thing that we focused on is: Where is the biggest leak of money in the business? and the most common answer is that there is excessive energy waste.

As we already mentioned, information is power, and knowing that energy is excessively spent is step number 1; but, how can we reduce costs in this area?

Nowadays, we have many digital programs as well as media to store information about our companies such as construction and installation plans, basic information in any company, but this was not always this way.

Many companies lack updated information regarding architecture, structural, and installation plans, due to 2 important factors: the original plans are old, usually on already worn or yellow paper where even the ink is fading, there is only one copy or if they have them digitized they don’t even know which one is the last file; and, many adaptations and extensions are made as required by the processes that are often carried out in situ, the As-built plans (as it name says, as it is built) are not necessary at the moment and never drawn. 

Can you relate to these scenarios?

What role does a digital twin play in this case?

As we already talked about, a digital twin is a virtual representation of a physical object or a process. In this case, it is an exact replica of your facilities, from the most basic elements such as walls and vain, to how the installations are distributed. 

The high costs in energy waste are generally a result of bad planning in the installations regarding this lack of information. With a digital twin you will have the necessary information to know and recognize all your facilities and installations and know for certain where your pipes in each process go through, detect errors and energy leaks.

But the benefits are not only to correct problems but also to help with logistics and maintenance. This digital twin is not static, it is fed with information. 

And with it you have the ability to make adaptations virtually in 3D to your facilities and processes, before investing in them physically, optimizing time, and space; and preventing deficiencies in the systems.

Now that you know a little more about digital twins and their power, write to me and let me accompany you with your most complex challenges, those that distract you from what is really important, with our team those problems will become a thing of the past.

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