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This paper explores the transformative potential of integrating digital twins with artificial intelligence (AI) in the context of cyber-physical systems. Digital twins, which create virtual replicas of physical entities, offer significant advantages in monitoring, simulation, and predictive maintenance. However, when augmented with AI, these systems provide enhanced capabilities for real-time data analysis, scenario simulation, and autonomous decision-making. In this paper, we present a comprehensive analysis of the current landscape, highlighting the key challenges, benefits, and feasibility considerations.
Adopting AI-enabled digital twins is crucial for maintaining competitiveness and driving innovation in modern enterprises.
The paper provides a detailed feasibility framework covering business, technical, and operational aspects of implementing digital twins.
Case studies demonstrate significant benefits of digital twins, including improved efficiency, cost savings, and enhanced predictive maintenance capabilities.
Readers are provided with concrete steps and tools to begin integrating digital twins into their organizational strategies.
This paper, published in the Fall 2024 Enterprise Technology Leadership Journal, explores the transformative potential of integrating digital twins with artificial intelligence (AI) in cyber-physical systems. The authors present a comprehensive analysis of the current landscape, highlighting key challenges, benefits, and feasibility considerations for implementing AI-enabled digital twins in modern enterprises.
The paper covers several key topics, including the background and importance of digital twins, the complexities of cyber-physical systems, and an overview of relevant technologies. It discusses the integration of AI with digital twins, emphasizing the synergies that drive intelligent automation and improved system reliability. The authors also examine the business, technical, and operational feasibility of implementing digital twins, providing a decision-making framework for business leaders. Case studies from various industries are presented to illustrate practical applications and quantifiable benefits of digital twins, such as improved predictive maintenance, cost savings, and operational efficiency.
The conclusion underscores the strategic imperative for organizations to adopt digital twins integrated with AI to maintain competitive advantage and drive innovation in an increasingly dynamic technological environment. The paper offers guidance and tools to support leaders in assessing the feasibility and potential impact of digital twins within their specific contexts, urging them to take action and integrate this technology into their strategic road maps.
Tracy “Trac” Bannon is a passionate software architect with extensive experience in software architecture, engineering, Agile, and DevSecOps. She focuses on enabling and accelerating digital transformation applying cybersecure principles to deliver secure, quality software. She drives the strategic direction for MITRE’s Modern Software Engineering capability and leads the adoption of emerging technology with a focus on research into the effective adoption of AI for enhancing software engineering. For multiple decades, Bannon has delivered complex projects across commercial and government sectors, applying AI/ML and Generative AI throughout the software development life cycle. She is committed to solving intricate problems and delivering business value rapidly. A dedicated advocate for diversity in technology, Bannon mentors, sponsors, and volunteers to close diversity gaps. She engages in industry events, leads working groups, and shares her insights through publications, speaking engagements, and podcasts like Real Technologists. Tracy holds multiple industry certifications and professional certificates. She is a senior member of the IEEE.
Bill Bensing tranforms Shadow IT into legitimate software development organizations. Bill's recent thought-leadership is proving software devliery velocity and highly secure and compliant software are not mutally exclusive. He lives in Tampa Bay, FL, area.
Debbie Brey is the director of complex systems innovation practice at Project & Team. In this role, she provides consulting and coaching for companies and organizations looking to innovate when dealing with the complexity of their solution and organizations. Debbie retired from Boeing as a technical fellow. She introduced and advanced Boeing’s ways of working using a combination of Agile, Lean, and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Brey founded the Boeing Enterprise Agile Center of Excellence, where she focused on growing an internal Agile coaching capability and increasing the overall outcomes of business agility at Boeing. She achieved recognition for her continued pursuit of improving outcomes by simplifying and clarifying guidance around Lean and Agile ways of working for anyonemat Boeing, specifically how they could be embraced for cyber-physical systems. Brey is a SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT) and SAFe Fellow.
Dr. Suzette Johnson is an award-winning author who has spent most of her career in the aerospace defense industry working for Northrop Grumman Corporation. Suzette was the enterprise Lean/Agile transformation lead. In this role, she launched the Northrop Grumman Agile Community of Practice and the Lean/Agile Center of Excellence. She has supported over a hundred enterprise, government, and DoD transitions to and the maturation of Lean-Agile principles and engineering development practices. She has also trained and coached over four thousand individuals on Lean/Agile principles and practices and delivered more than one hundred presentations on Lean/Agile at conferences both nationally and abroad. Her current role is as Northrop Grumman Fellow and Technical Fellow Emeritus, where she continues to actively drive the adoption of Lean/Agile principles with leadership at the portfolio levels and within cyber-physical solutions, specifically within the space sector. As a mentor, coach, and leader, she launched the Women in Computing, Johns Hopkins University Chapter; the Women in Leadership Development program; the Northrop Grumman Lean-Agile Center of Excellence; and the NDIA ADAPT (Agile Delivery for Agencies, Programs, and Teams) working group. She received a Doctorate of Management at the University of Maryland with a dissertation focused on investigating the impact of leadership styles on software project outcomes in traditional and Agile engineering environments. She am also a Certified Agile Enterprise Coach and Scaled Agile Program Consultant/SPCT
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Hasan Yasar is the Technical Director of the Continuous Deployment of Capability group at the Software Engineering Institute, CMU. Hasan leads an engineering group to enable, accelerate, and assure Transformation at the speed of relevance by leveraging, DevSecOps, Agile, Lean AI/ML, and other emerging technologies to create a Smart and secure Software Platform/Pipeline. Hasan has more than 25 years of experience as a senior security engineer, software engineer, software architect, and manager in all phases of secure software development and information modeling processes. He is also a Teaching Professor at CMU’s Heinz College and Software and Societal Systems College where he currently teaches “Software and Security” and “DevOps for Engineering Secure Development and Deployment”. Hasan also serves various IEEE/ISO, The Open Group, and NIST standard developments. He recently co-authored IEEE 2675 DevOps standard, while working on IEEE 828 Configuration Management, IEEE 982.1 Software Reliability, ISO Wkg 29 Agile, and DevOps standard development.
Robin Yeman is an award-winning author who has spent twenty-six years working at Lockheed Martin in various roles leading up to senior technical fellow building large systems including everything from submarines to satellites. She led the Agile community of practice supporting a workforce of 120,000 people. Her initial experience with Lean practices began in the late ’90s. In 2002, she had the opportunity to lead my first Agile program with multiple Scrum teams. After just a couple months of experience, she was hooked and never turned back. She both led and supported Agile transformations for intelligence, federal, and Department of Defense organizations over the next two decades, and each one was more exciting and challenging than the last. In 2012, She had the opportunity to extend our Agile practices into DevOps, which added extensive automation and tightened our feedback loops, providing even larger results. Currently, she is the Carnegie Mellon Space Domain Lead at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon. She is also currently pursuing a PhD in Systems Engineering at Colorado State University, where she is working on my contribution to demonstrate empirical data of the benefits of implementing Agile and DevOps for safety-critical cyber-physical systems.
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