Black Founders Programme
The Black Founders Programme is an accelerator targeted at pre-seed or seed stage, Black-founded companies creating innovative products and services...
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A digital twin is a virtual representation of a physical asset, process, or system, bridging the physical and digital worlds. They turn data into real-time insights that can optimise performance, reduce costs, and predict outcomes.
Digital Twins operate through a fully connected data flow between the physical asset and its virtual counterpart. Real-time data from the physical asset—collected via sensors, IoT devices, or manual inputs—is continuously sent to the digital twin, allowing it to accurately reflect the asset’s current state, behaviour, and environment.
Delivered by Digital Catapult and funded by Belfast Region City Deal and Innovate UK, the UK Digital Twin Centre is making digital twins more accessible and meaningful in the UK. It will actively enable industries and innovators to safely embrace, explore and realise their dynamic power.
Operating from the heart of Northern Ireland, the Centre accelerates the adoption of digital twins to drive global competitive advantage for UK businesses. By creating the conditions for digital twins to be better understood, more easily developed and more meaningfully applied, the Centre gives businesses real-time capabilities to make smarter decisions and achieve better outcomes, enabling the potential of digital twins to be realised, not theorised.
Endorsed by industry, the Centre has with co-investment from three major industry partners: Thales UK, Spirit AeroSystems and Artemis Technologies to deliver an initial six use cases to demonstrate the potential of digital twins in transforming the maritime, aerospace and defence sectors.
