Twin Fusion - Turn Operational Complexity Into Enterprise Innovation
What is Twin Fusion
Twin Fusion is an Operational Innovation Platform designed to empower industrial enterprises to unlock the hidden value in their operational data. By seamlessly integrating data from OT systems (e.g., SCADA, historians) with IT platforms (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake), Twin Fusion enables operational teams to create scalable solutions that bridge the gap between operations and business strategy. Whether it’s real-time dashboards, predictive maintenance tools, or optimization apps, Twin Fusion transforms operational complexity into actionable insights, driving productivity, efficiency, and enterprise-wide collaboration.
How Twin Fusion Components Work Together
- Twin Talk collects and streams real-time operational data from OT systems to IT platforms and AI applications.
- Twin Central processes and contextualizes this data, creating a unified data model and structured framework for digital twins and actionable insights.
- Twin Sight transforms these insights into easy-to-use dashboards and apps, allowing operators, data scientists, and business users to collaborate effectively.
This seamless workflow ensures that operational data becomes a strategic asset, enabling enterprises to drive innovation, optimize processes, and achieve measurable business outcomes.
Real-World Impact
Twin Fusion eliminates inefficiencies by seamlessly connecting operational and enterprise systems. OT teams can design solutions on SCADA and historians that are immediately usable by operators, while IT platforms like Snowflake and Databricks provide scalability for business users and data scientists. This unique approach empowers enterprises to innovate faster, reduce costs, and unlock new levels of productivity and profitability.
Why Twin Fusion is Different
The Twin Fusion Innovation Cycle: Twin Fusion empowers OT (and IT) teams to unlock the hidden value of operational data by creating solutions that span both OT and IT ecosystems. OT teams design dashboards, predictive maintenance tools, and optimization apps directly on familiar OT systems, ensuring immediate usability by operators. These solutions can then be seamlessly transitioned to IT platforms like Databricks and Snowflake, where they are scaled to serve thousands of business users and data scientists across the enterprise.
This unique ability to switch between OT-focused operations and enterprise-wide IT scalability ensures that OT-driven solutions are not only operationally impactful but also strategically transformative. By aligning operational expertise with enterprise needs, Twin Fusion accelerates innovation, enhances collaboration, and delivers measurable business outcomes.
Key DifferentiatorS
Twin Fusion is the only platform that empowers OT and IT teams to unlock this value by creating scalable, innovative solutions. Twin Fusion bridges the gap between OT and IT, enabling operational teams to transform siloed data into applications and insights that are immediately usable by operators while also scalable for thousands of business users and data scientists on IT platforms.
Unlike monolithic, vendor-locked platforms, Twin Fusion offers a flexible, modular approach that seamlessly connects to OT systems (e.g., SCADA, historians) and IT platforms (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake). OT/IT teams can design dashboards, predictive maintenance tools, and optimization apps on OT/IT systems that are operationally impactful from day one. These innovations can then be seamlessly switched to enterprise data lakes and systems, scaling effortlessly to serve enterprise-wide needs, from operators on the shop floor to data scientists and business users across the organization.
By putting OT teams in control of innovation, Twin Fusion enables faster ROI, better predictive maintenance, real-time production optimization, and cost savings, while driving enterprise-wide collaboration and transforming operational complexity into strategic success.
Twin Sight – Intuitive Visualization AND Dashboard Builder
Twin Sight is the analytics and visualization toolset that empowers OT teams to design intuitive dashboards, predictive maintenance tools, and optimization apps. It bridges the gap between operational expertise and enterprise analytics, providing insights that serve both OT and IT needs.
- Custom Dashboards: Allows OT teams to create real-time monitoring dashboards tailored to specific operational needs.
- Predictive Maintenance: Supports the development of AI-driven tools to predict equipment failures and recommend actions.
- Optimization Apps: Enables the creation of apps for optimizing resource allocation, energy efficiency, and production workflows.
- Scalability for IT: Dashboards and apps built on OT data can be seamlessly scaled and integrated with IT systems like Databricks and Snowflake, allowing business users and data scientists to extend their functionality.
Twin Central – Intuitive Industrial Digital Twin Builder
Twin Central serves as the engine for contextualizing data and managing enterprise-wide digital twin hierarchies. It automates the process of mapping operational data to physical and logical assets, creating a structured and actionable representation of operations.
- Digital Twin Creation: Automates the generation of digital twins for operational assets by linking data from OT and IT systems.
- Data Contextualization: Maps raw data to relevant assets, workflows, and lifecycle events, enabling meaningful insights.
- Scalable Architecture: Easily integrates with enterprise platforms like Databricks, Snowflake, and cloud-based solutions to scale digital twins across facilities.
- Unified Data Model: Provides a single source of truth for operational and business data, ensuring consistency and accuracy.
Twin Talk is the data integration and communication layer of the Twin Fusion platform, designed to connect operational systems (OT) and enterprise IT platforms with ease and scalability. It eliminates silos by providing a real-time, secure pipeline for streaming data across systems.
- OT Integration: Connects OT systems such as SCADA, historians, OPC UA, and MQTT to enable real-time data collection and processing.
- IT Integration: Streams data directly into IT systems like Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, and Azure, ensuring compatibility with data lakes and advanced analytics platforms.
- Advanced Data Streaming: Supports event-driven architectures to minimize latency, making real-time insights possible.
- APIs and SDKs: Offers APIs and SDKs for seamless integration with custom enterprise workflows and applications.
Twin Fusion Key Features and Benefits (With Industry Examples)
- Unlocking Business Value from Operational Data
- Feature: Integrates OT data into applications for preventative maintenance, production optimization, and predictive insights.
- Benefit: Transforms untapped operational data into millions in ROI by enabling actionable business intelligence.
- Example: A renewable energy company used Twin Fusion to analyze turbine performance in real-time, reducing downtime by 30% and increasing power output by $5M annually.
- Dual Connectivity to OT and IT Systems
- Feature: Connects seamlessly to OT systems (SCADA, historians) and IT platforms (Databricks, Snowflake).
- Benefit: Allows OT teams to build solutions on familiar OT systems that operators can use immediately, with the ability to scale these solutions to IT systems for broader business adoption.
- Example: A manufacturing enterprise deployed Twin Fusion to connect legacy OT systems with cloud-based IT platforms, enabling real-time quality control and cutting scrap costs by 25%.
- Empowering OT Teams to Lead Innovation
- Feature: Provides tools for OT teams to design dashboards, apps, and analytics tailored to operational and business needs.
- Benefit: Enables OT teams to innovate independently, meeting operational demands while aligning with enterprise goals.
- Example: A chemical company used Twin Fusion to empower its plant engineers to design real-time monitoring dashboards for chemical reactions, preventing overfills and saving $2M annually.
- Scalable Innovation for Enterprise-Wide Use
- Feature: OT-designed solutions are instantly scalable via IT platforms, serving thousands of business users and data scientists.
- Benefit: Bridges the OT-IT divide, ensuring that operational innovations deliver value across the organization.
- Example: A petrochemical company transitioned operator-built predictive maintenance apps into enterprise IT systems, enabling its IT department to refine and scale them for 50 global sites, saving $12M annually in reduced downtime.
- AI-Powered Applications
- Feature: Supports domain-specific AI models for predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, and operational optimization.
- Benefit: Delivers actionable insights that reduce downtime, enhance efficiency, and boost production.
- Example: A food processing plant deployed AI-driven optimization models using Twin Fusion to reduce energy consumption during peak hours, saving $1M annually.
- Fast Deployment, Rapid ROI
- Feature: Pilots deploy in days, scaling to production in weeks.
- Benefit: Accelerates time to value, ensuring measurable ROI and long-term scalability.
- Example: A pharmaceutical company launched a real-time equipment monitoring app in under a week, preventing two equipment failures and saving $500K in the first month.
- Unlocking Business Value from Operational Data