Manufacturing digital twins for reliable, high-performance operations
Model your production lines, assets, and energy flows as living digital twins—so you can prevent downtime, remove bottlenecks, and run more predictable manufacturing operations.
Manufacturing is under constant pressure
Manufacturing teams are expected to deliver higher output, better quality, and lower cost—often with aging equipment, volatile demand, rising energy prices, and fewer experienced operators on the floor.
What's creating pressure
- Unplanned line stoppages that disrupt schedules and customer commitments
- Bottlenecks that shift week to week and are hard to diagnose
- Reactive maintenance driven by alarms instead of early signals
- Energy costs that spike without clear visibility into root causes
- Critical operational knowledge locked in a few experts—or lost entirely
The digital twin advantage
- Prevent failures before they stop production
- Identify true bottlenecks and test solutions safely
- Move from reactive to predictive maintenance
- Optimize energy use without compromising output
- Capture and scale operational expertise
From firefighting to foresight
In manufacturing, an intelligent digital twin acts as a living model of how your plant actually behaves—not how it's supposed to behave on paper.
It continuously reflects:
- The condition of machines and assets
- How lines, buffers, and constraints interact
- How energy use changes with schedules and demand
- How small issues propagate into missed targets
Instead of reacting after KPIs drop, teams can:
- Detect emerging failures days or weeks earlier
- Test line changes or maintenance timing virtually
- Understand trade-offs between throughput, cost, and risk
- Make decisions with confidence before touching the real floor
Manufacturing use cases powered by intelligent digital twins
Predictive Maintenance
Prevent failures before they stop production.
- Detect early signs of wear and degradation
- Prioritize maintenance based on risk and impact
- Reduce emergency repairs and overtime
Production Optimization
Increase throughput without new capex.
- Identify true bottlenecks across lines and shifts
- Simulate changeovers, schedules, and product mixes
- Reduce variability and scrap
Energy Optimization
Control energy cost without hurting output.
- Understand energy use by line, asset, and shift
- Test load shifting and schedule changes safely
- Prove savings with traceable data
Asset Health & Reliability
See risk across fleets—not just single machines.
- Compare similar assets across lines or plants
- Understand how operating context affects lifespan
- Move from time-based to condition-based strategies
(Often combined with Predictive Maintenance)
Used across the plant—not just by specialists
Plant managers
- Start each day with a live view of line health and constraints
- See which issues threaten today's plan—and which don't
- Evaluate trade-offs before changing schedules or priorities
Reliability & maintenance engineers
- Track degradation trends across critical assets
- Simulate maintenance timing to minimize production impact
- Focus effort where risk and cost are highest
Continuous improvement & process engineers
- Test improvement ideas virtually before rolling them out
- Understand how local changes affect the full system
- Validate gains with real operational data
What manufacturers typically target
While results vary by environment and starting point, manufacturing teams often aim for:
- More stable schedules and fewer last-minute disruptions
The biggest gains usually come from eliminating chronic issues—not chasing one-off optimizations.
Start with one line. Prove value. Scale plant-wide.
1. Start
Choose a critical line, bottleneck process, or high-failure asset.
2. Prove
Baseline current performance and validate early insights using live data.
3. Scale
Expand to additional lines, assets, or plants—reusing what works instead of starting over.
Common questions from manufacturing teams
See what an intelligent digital twin could change in your plant
Start with one manufacturing problem that matters—and build from there.