Digital Twins in BIM Process

Companies across all sectors are under pressure to produce more reliable and creative operating models.

Digital twins may enhance BIM processes to produce sustainable value and competitive advantage, according to the Global Directors for Digital Twin.

The planet is undergoing change. Customers are more demanding, society standards are higher, and opportunities and challenges appear more frequently.

Due to these developments and the lightning-fast pace of technological advancement, nearly every industry is being forced to undergo major business transformations, and many organizations are being forced to make significant strategic changes.

An important stage in this transition process has been adopting Building Information Modeling (BIM).

Organizations have improved the consistency and efficiency of their design, construction, and operation by collaborating to build digital representations of assets utilizing BIM processes and standards.

BIM, however, isn’t something you can just use to modernize operations and then lay aside. It is a process, and intellectual evolution is the key to long-term success and value in any process.

BIM has demonstrated its value as a tool for facilitating the communication of ideas and information among many stakeholders.

Although it aims to connect the design and asset management phases of a project, it is frequently employed only as a 3D modeling tool for the design and construction stages, missing the possibility to prove its worth throughout the asset lifecycle.

It’s time for forward-thinking executives to expand the usage of collaborative data models in operational strategies by adopting digital twins, expanding their BIM outputs beyond design and construction.

Digital Twins driving operational excellence in digital age

The foundation of both BIM processes and digital twin plans is a set of shared values;

They both aim to increase process visibility, bring stakeholders into alignment, and aid in planning.

But more importantly, they are both very helpful in assisting teams to view assets as ongoing initiatives as opposed to isolated, capex-focused expenditures.

Before design begins or construction work starts on site, effective BIM procedures and frameworks assist you in creating a clear project vision that supports business outcomes. However, once work has started, you need the real-time information to continuously enhance and adjust programs to give better value to everyone.

Digital twins are particularly helpful in this situation.

By utilizing real-time data, digital twins enable you to see, manage, and optimize your operational assets, processes, and resources.

This offers crucial, in-the-moment insights into activity and performance.

In essence, a digital twin is an output of a BIM process and is a “live” version of the project or asset view that BIM procedures are designed to provide. Once the asset is in use, the digital twin can change and evolve utilizing real-time data.

Subsequent capital expenditure projects should contribute to the continued development of a digital twin, once again using the BIM process, in order tomaximize the value of every asset at every stage of design, building, and operation.

That twin will transform a process into an evolving project by serving as the asset’s single source of truth throughout its existence and as a model for future innovation and development.

Would you like to talk about whether or not your company is prepared for a digital twin? Contact Bimpact Designs.