Capgemini is collaborating with Microsoft to deliver a first-of-its-kind, cloud-native, serverless Azure-based digital twin platform called ReflectIOD. This secure, highly scalable platform will leverage best-in-class architecture and technological components from the Azure suite to help transform an organisation’s operations and maintenance efficiency, enabling intelligent industry and driving sustainable business value. It will also enable enterprises to meet the ever-growing needs of standardised brownfield management[1] throughout their life cycle and across ecosystems.
Jean-Pierre Petit, Digital Manufacturing and Supply Chain Group Offer Leader at Capgemini, said, “Incremental use cases and a data-driven approach are key to successfully deploying digital twins in the field. Scalable and configurable by design, the deployment of this new platform will make it possible to drive sustainable business value for organisations by delivering shorter turnaround times, breaking down silos within an organisation and improving operational efficiency. With Microsoft’s cloud expertise, we’re confident in enabling organisations to rethink their operations and shape tomorrow’s manufacturing and business ecosystem.”
In an organisation’s life cycle, enormous amounts of data are produced by different assets in a variety of formats and by different actors. These are also often hosted in different IT silos. It is, therefore, difficult for industrial players to quickly access the right data and have a 360° view of their assets to optimise operations, maintenance and asset availability. ReflectIoD addresses this problem by federating data from multiple systems and formats, such as 1D to 3D, Point cloud[2], Geographical information, OT and IoT data[3], and more[4], into a unique referential – the asset digital twin. It is built on an evolutive data model that can be customized for different industries or organisations, leveraging Azure Digital Twins and Azure IoT while offering value-added services to improve operations and maintenance. This holistic view of the assets enables data-centric collaboration and alignment between teams across multiple geographies, improves overall-decision making and enables the creation of new services.
“Our collaboration with Capgemini offers a seamless opportunity for operators to capture and derive more value from data created across the full asset lifecycle. By leveraging cloud services and the power of digital twins, manufacturers can move from systems of record to systems of reality, driving unique and accelerated competitive advantage at scale,” said Çağlayan Arkan, Vice President, Global Strategy and Sales Lead, Manufacturing and Supply Chain, Microsoft
Capgemini’s Digital Engineering and Manufacturing teams help shape smart factories, buildings and infrastructure towards a more sustainable future.
[1] This refers to the operations of an already-built building or infrastructure as opposed to a Greenfield, or new asset to be constructed.
[2] A set of data points in space
[3] Operational Technology and Internet of Things
[4] Including Enterprise Resource Planning, Product Lifecycle Management and Enterprise Asset Management