Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that it has entered into a partnership with TIM Solution, Inc., and will act as a global value-added distributor for the company’s 8D* digital twin platform. TIM Solution’s digital twin platform will complement Yokogawa’s existing portfolio of digital twins, covering a broader range of asset lifecycle solutions from design and engineering to operations and maintenance, thereby increasing the level of intelligence in industrial sites. Under the agreement, Yokogawa will be able to manage the implementation, integration and support of the TIM Solution digital twin platform. The collaboration will help strengthen Yokogawa’s capabilities as a global digital transformation (DX) integrator, while expanding the supply of TIM Solution’s digital twin platform in the global market.
8D digital twin concept
While companies have embraced the convergence of information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) as part of their DX journey, the engineering technology element is often overlooked. In fact, when considering the entire life cycle of the plant, it also involves the integration of product and process design. For example, process engineers and IT developers, security engineers and IT security specialists, and automation engineers and mechanical engineers. Therefore, IT is always necessary to be prepared for engineering when solving IT/OT convergence problems. Through this collaboration, Yokogawa introduced TIM Solution’s digital twin platform, designed to meet this demand.
TIM Solution’s digital twin is available in the form of a Platform as a Service (PaaS). As a universal digital twin platform, IT can be applied to multiple fields, integrating and simulating IT/OT and engineering data from oil and gas, shipbuilding, aerospace, automotive and other industries to improve manufacturing processes. It is a dedicated digital platform that, when combined with Yokogawa’s asset management products such as OpreX Asset Health Insights (AHI), can provide customers with a single platform to access and leverage company-wide data. TIM Solution’s digital twin platform can also be placed on top of Yokogawa’s OT process digital twin offering to provide a more comprehensive view of asset data.
* 8D Digital Twin: A digital twin platform for data integration using an eight-dimensional approach (documentation, drawing, space, time, cost, maintenance, sustainability, security)
Business: A South Korea-based company that offers generic digital twins that can be applied to different industries to provide high-quality 3D visualizations with as few resources as possible, thus providing simple and efficient usability for end users.