SupplyChain Magazine October 2022 | Page 116

TADA NOW LAUNCHES DIGITAL TWIN SOLUTION FOR PRODUCTION

“ A third of organisations say sustainability is the key driver of their digital twin investments ”

MARK LANDRY INTELLIGENT INDUSTRY LEADER , CAPGEMINI AMERICAS
TADA NOW LAUNCHES DIGITAL TWIN SOLUTION FOR PRODUCTION
Tada Now recently announced the industry ’ s first digital twin-enabled Production Control Tower ( PCT ).
Built on the company ’ s digital supply chain twin technology , Digital Duplicate , it is designed to stabilise factory operations by providing actionable intelligence to avert production line interruptions .
One of PCT ’ s applications delivers failuremode analytics for productivity losses across end-to-end operations .
Using Tada Now ’ s cloud-native architecture , PCT is scalable and accessible from both web browsers and mobile devices .
Tada Now CPO Amit Gupta said : “ Traditional planning solutions fail to rapidly synchronise factory operations from dock to point of application once material is received , or there is a change in labour availability .”
One business using PCT to good effect is Toro , a provider of outdoor environment solutions , including turf and landscape maintenance , as well as snow management .
Senior Materials Manager at Tada Now Adam Nuttall said : “ We have eliminated tedious manipulations of spreadsheets and chains of emails , allowing our teams to get some more product out of the door while simultaneously lowering our overall costs .”
E . ON , for example , is working alongside multiple industry partners through a consortium to create a digital twin that monitors the health and performance of its 110kV power transformers .
As a general point , organisations looking to derive greater benefits from digital twin technologies should collaborate with partners – something that ’ s possible if they on-board critical partners to their digital-twin vision and deploy collaboration platforms from the get-go .
What are some of the most innovative uses of digital twins in the supply chain ? By their nature , DTs help organisations bake innovation into their supply chains . With the sole purpose of optimising existing capabilities all along the value chain , they hold the power to transform disparate systems into intelligent , connected systems .
But , while DT tech is being leveraged across the world to increase efficiencies and raise companies ’ top and bottom
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