Executable digital twin (xDT)
Deliver smarter products and processes by connecting the real and virtual worlds to unlock new insights. The executable digital twin lets you leverage digital twin models across the entire product lifecycle.
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Connect the real and virtual worlds
Enhance your operations with XDT solutions that prioritize performance, sustainability, and cost efficiency. Our innovative approach enables products and processes to adapt seamlessly to environmental changes and varying operating conditions. By connecting real systems to virtual representations through rapid simulation models, you can gain accurate insights in real-time, empowering your business to make informed decisions and optimize performance.
Bridge the Gap between Simulation & Real-World
Simcenter Executable Digital Twin bridges the gap between simulation and real-world operations by deploying validated simulation models directly into the operational environment. Unlike the traditional digital twin that primarily mirrors physical assets, the executable digital twin (xDT) actively runs simulations in parallel with the physical process. This facilitates real-time analysis, predictions and optimization.
Operate more intelligently and efficiently, driving innovation and competitiveness.
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Improved operational efficiency with optimised processes
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Reduced risk by testing changes virtually
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Enhanced predictive maintenance with failure prediction
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Faster response to unexpected events
How PepsiCo Uses Digital Twins & AI to Rethink Manufacturing
Athina Kanioura, Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer at PepsiCo, explains how engineering and operational digital twins help PepsiCo simulate, validate, and optimize factory layouts before anything is built—reducing risk, improving throughput, and uncovering hidden capacity across its global manufacturing network. By combining the real and digital worlds, PepsiCo is accelerating design cycles, reducing CAPEX, and laying the foundation for self-optimizing factories that continuously adapt to demand, supply volatility, and market change—at industrial scale.
How does it work?
Seamless integration of real and virtual worlds is enabled through the Siemens Xcelerator platform, which combines software, hardware and services.
Maximize ROI by a digital twin of your thermo-fluid or mechatronic systems throughout their lifecycle. Re your engineering model as an executable digital twin for procurement, commissioning, and operations. Optimize costs by minimizing capital and operational expenditures, and safely verify interactions with a virtual programmable logic controller before system construction. By connecting the digital twin to real system sensors via industrial IoT, enhance operational efficiency and safety for operators.
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Model-based system testing
Unlock new external model integration possibilities by adding an executable digital twin to a real-time (RT) platform, such as a vehicle simulator. This helps you more accurately reflect the actual physics of a vehicle and how it reacts to driver inputs. Integrate with other multiphysics models and combine with RT simulators and hardware-in-loop (HiL). Reuse existing models or extend the accuracy of RT models by adding more degrees of freedom (DOF) than possible with previously reduced models.
Depolyment
Virtual testing and commissioning
Anticipate how your assets and systems will interact with each other and with people through realistic simulations. Optimize automation and control strategies with virtual commissioning, test new approaches risk-free and empower your team with accurate operator training.
Performance prediction and optimization
Gain deep insights into your asset or system's future behavior to make informed decisions. Accurately predict remaining useful life and optimize energy performance. Leverage model predictive control and operating point optimization to maximize efficiency and minimize costs.
Diagnostics and identification
Understand why your asset or system is underperforming. Gain crucial insights to pinpoint issues such as imbalance, fluid system failures and production machine breakdowns. Minimize downtime and optimize performance by leveraging simulation-based executable digital twins.
Predictive maintenance
Proactively schedule maintenance based on real-time asset health. Accurately predict the remaining useful life of critical components and monitor wear virtually. Avoid unplanned downtime and optimize maintenance by leveraging the executable digital twin in operations.