Belfast Region City Deal and Innovate UK have announced a £37.6m investment in the UK Digital Twin Centre
The centre of excellence that will demonstrate the potential of digital twins in transforming the maritime, aerospace and defence sectors.
It aims to accelerate industry’s adoption of digital twins through providing access to cutting edge technologies, reducing the costs of producing a digital twin and developing skills in the workforce – therefore removing the key barriers businesses face. The Centre will also provide a collaborative space for industry, academia and the public sector to foster cross-sector innovation.
Digital twins are virtual models of a physical object or system which can be informed by streamed data from a real-world version or environment. The digital twin can provide unique capabilities including rapid proto-typing and real-world control mechanisms, enabling businesses to make smarter decisions, achieve better outcomes, shortening time to market, reducing costs and lowering emissions.
To enable digital twins to be more accessible, better understood, more easily developed, and more meaningfully applied, the UK Digital Twin Centre will run a series of programmes for all levels of industry – from SMEs to large enterprises – to drive innovation and realise new value. It is expected to open later this year.
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