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How Digital Twin technology can enhance Aviation
Digital twinning bridges physical products with intelligent virtual replicas, the technology is being embraced across the industrial sector.
The blurring of boundaries between the digital world and physical products is leading what has become known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0. At the front line of this revolution are “smart” technology applications like global connectivity, big data, machine learning, and virtual reality. Digital Twin technology combines these applications and has become a key component of Industry 4.0.
This technology presents significant opportunities for the Aviation sector.
At their core Digital Twins are virtual replicas of physical devices, products or entities created by combining data with machine learning and software analytics to create digital models that update and change alongside their real-life counterparts. For GorWay this means creating virtual copies of our pioneering aero engines.
A Digital Twin will continuously learn and update itself using data from sensors that monitor various aspects of the real-life product’s environment and operating conditions. It can also factor in historical data from prior usage.
In engineering terms, the use of Digital Twins reduces the need to rely on probability-based techniques to determine when an engine might need maintenance or repair. Our Engineers create a Digital Twin of an engine, which is a precise virtual copy of the real-world product. They then install on-board sensors and satellite connectivity on the physical engine to collect data, which is continuously relayed back to its Digital Twin in real time. The twin then operates in the virtual world as the physical engine would on-wing and will determine how the engine is operating and predict when it may need maintenance. This also allows us to enact preventative engine maintenance, which can greatly reduce aircraft downtime and, in turn, enhance reliability.
The data analysis used by the Digital Twin allows us to model a greater number of potential circumstances than physical engine tests would ever allow, which results in a greater understanding. Using a Digital Twin, GorWay can study and predict the physical behaviours that an engine would exhibit under very extreme conditions. This allows us to model potential operational scenarios entirely digitally.
The ability to map complex, real-life scenarios on a virtual platform allows GorWay to improve and adjust operations as well as maintain our highly complex aero engines even more effectively. Digital twinning is part of a comprehensive suite of digital models that underpin the IntelligentEngine, our vision for the future.
As well as designing, testing and maintaining engines in the digital twin environment, the IntelligentEngine vision sets out a future where an engine will be increasingly connected, contextually aware and comprehending, helping us deliver products that are more reliable and efficient.
Learn more about the IntelligentEngine.
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