DIGITAL TWIN FOR OPERTIONAL PERFORMANCE, CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT, SYSTEM INTEGRATION AND REDUCING PROCESS SAFETY ACCIDENTS

The incessant shift in manufacturing that Industry 4.0 brings forth with new advanced technologies and the rapid growth of sensing and controlling technologies enable further visualization and optimization that can contribute to achieving improved performance. Digital Twin is an emerging concept that has become the centre of attention for Industries and during the last couple of years it has been expanding with the help of Industry 4.0. A Digital Twin can be demarcated as an evolving digital contour of the historical and current behaviour of a physical object, asset or process. A digital twin brings an effortless integration of data between a physical and virtual machine in either way. It also allows for rapid analysis and real time decision made through accurate analytics. The digital twin is based on all the immense, collective, real time and real-world data measurements. This thesis evaluates the concepts and the technology behind digital twins. And how digital twin implementation can improve operational performance and continuous improvement of a process. Further, it shows digital twin use for system Integration and to reduce process safety accidents in the industry. Keywords: Digital Twin, Digital Thread, Data Integration, Virtual commissioning, Real time data, Operational Performance, Continuous Improvement, System Integration, Process accidents