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In today's rapidly evolving industrial landscape, safety remains a paramount concern for organizations across various sectors. As technology continues to advance, innovative solutions like digital twins are emerging as powerful tools to enhance workplace safety and mitigate risks. This article explores the intersection of industrial safety and digital twin technology, highlighting how this cutting-edge approach can revolutionize safety practices and create safer work environments.

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The Theory of Constraints (TOC) offers a powerful framework to identify and manage constraints that hinder a system’s ability to achieve higher throughput. Coupling TOC with digital twins - virtual replicas of physical systems and processes - enables continuous monitoring and improvement of operations.

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The Grid Twin provides power companies with cross-domain data and near real-time context to improve Engineering & Project delivery, Maintenance & Training, and Operations & Planning. This flexible tool integrates key data sets, including 3D models, spatial data, and maintenance schedules, to support various use cases across the organisation, driving efficiency and informed decision-making.

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Autonomy in mining is a complex journey, not a guaranteed outcome. While prediction accuracy is crucial, many operations won't reach full autonomy before their end of life. These mines must adapt to meet ESG, safety, and compliance demands while maintaining operational performance. The workforce, shaped by current environments, needs support to navigate this transformation, as they will make critical decisions that impact both the operation's future and worker safety.

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Geminum offers corporate training on designing, delivering, and supporting digital twins throughout the asset lifecycle. Courses are available in person or remotely, ranging from one to three days, covering key themes like solution design, user discovery, and facilitated workshops.

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The journey to industrial autonomy goes beyond automating a haul truck or changing a process control system from PID to MPC to AI. Autonomous operations are idealised for many reasons…

Ultimately, the time it takes to achieve autonomy will be driven by the speed at which the organisation can let go of the existing and replace it with the new.

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COPs are far more than an emergency response tool. Situation Awareness enhances decision making, and humans rely more on goals than tasks to gain and regain SA. In modern organisations, our people mostly work collaboratively on goals and they spend most of their time focusing on achieving goals. A small section of our workforce focuses on situations, and all humans need to situate and adapt to changing situations as they arise. Moving from mode to mode, and multi-mode management, are the norm now. COPs should enable individual and collaborative goal directed and situation driven SA.

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TOC is a philosophy that provides methodologies and ways of thinking to help miners focus on production constraints, and to exploit those constraints to maximise throughput. With a digital twin that utilises an always-on constraints model, users can identify and measure all of the constraints appearing and moving across value chains, and managers can prioritise changes to address those constraints, while continuously measuring and improving those changes.

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We delve into the transformative potential of Digital Twins and how they bridge the gap between physical assets and digital realities. Our blog specifically examines Tailings Storage Facilities (TSFs) and demonstrates how a blend of local knowledge and global expertise can enhance operational efficiency and environmental sustainability.

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The Visualisation Twin is a type of spatial digital twin that presents contextual, near real time, cross functional data to users. Visualisation Twins are often seen as “the” digital twin of a site, and are frequently associated with high fideilty spatial data such as 3D models, LIDAR, and photogrammetry. In this short summary, we present some of the key elements of a Visualisation Twin and provide advice on creating a valuable and viable Visualisation Twin in your organisation.

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Enhancing situation awareness is crucial for effective decision-making. Digital twins, combined with predictive AI, offer a powerful solution to navigate these volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments. They provide real-time, high-context visual information, reducing cognitive overload and enabling managers to better comprehend and project future scenarios, ultimately leading to safer and more efficient operations.

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The world of digital technology is continuously evolving, and businesses across various sectors need to adapt in order to remain competitive. In this blog, we discuss the transformative power of digital twins and their ability to enable predictive technology adoption.