Invicara has launched an open-source program to allow enterprise innovation teams and software solution providers to create their own digital twin applications
digitaltwin-factory was unveiled at Digital Construction Week in London. It aims to accelerate innovation by enabling connected digital twins and the lowering the cost of implementing digital twin solutions.
The global community offers re-composable building blocks for digital twinning. These can be applied to different use cases, including buildings, utilities, transportation, manufacturing and aviation.
The building blocks are accessed under an Apache 2.0 licence.
Invicara is the developer of Twinit, a composable Platform-as-a-Service for digital twin applications.
Invicara CEO Anand Mecheri said: “digitaltwin-factory is a game changer.
“Digital twins bridge the physical and digital worlds, enabling AI to analyse, simulate, predict and prescribe actions that enhance efficiency, safety and sustainability.
“While Twinit provides the compute environment to build, deploy and manage digital twin applications, open-source software from digitaltwin-factory will bootstrap these applications and enable our partners to deliver business value even faster.”
‘Co-creating transformative solutions’
Infrastructure consulting firm Digital AECOM has joined the digitaltwin-factory community.
Paul Wilson, Digital Aecom’s digital director for Europe and India, said the program will co-create transformative solutions for its clients.
“We are uniquely placed to used digital twin technology across transportation, energy, water, buildings and environment sectors,” he said.
“Partnering with leading innovators and technology providers allows us to deliver quicker time to value solutions and outcomes that join up prioritisations across an organisation.
“We value our partnerships with SMEs like Invicara, whose expertise, alongside its Twinit platform open-source application building blocks from digitaltwin-factory, provide a potent combination that can help us build and deliver solutions faster, and create value for our clients.”
Invicara was founded by serial entrepreneurs who built and scaled businesses that were sold to Siemens in 2009.
The company has locations in Ireland, the USA, the UK, Singapore and India.
