Shyam Varan Nath - Building Industrial Digital Twins: Design, develop, and deploy digital twin solutions for real-world industries using Azure Digital Twins

Design, develop, and deploy digital twin solutions for real-world industries using Azure Digital Twins

Shyam Varan Nath

Pieter van Schalkwyk

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Shyam and Pieter are both recognized professionals in the industrial internet, IoT, and Digital Twins community. They converted the OT/IT task group to the Digital Twins Interoperability task group at the Industry IoT Consortium (formerly known as the Industrial Internet Consortium). They also led the task group in the development of the "Digital Twins for Industrial Applications" whitepaper.

Shyam is the author of a book on industrial digital transformation, published by Packt. Pieter is currently the chair for the Natural Resources working group in the Digital Twin Consortium. He is actively developing a Digital Twin capability framework and a composable Digital Twin development methodology.

In this book, Shyam and Pieter walk you step-by-step through creating your first Digital Twin prototype. It explores the "what, why, and how" of Digital Twin through an example project, which covers the entire lifecycle of a Digital Twin prototype development on the Azure Digital Twins platform.

The authors' extensive knowledge and experience in developing and deploying real-world industrial Digital Twins project are evident in the practical guidance and rich repository of tools, like the Lean Digital Twin Canvas, that they provide in every chapter. Their easy-to-follow advice on setting up the Azure Digital Twins services and their step-by-step approach to creating Digital Twin models and instances on the service will get you started on your first Digital Twin prototype in a few hours.

This book is a valuable resource to anyone starting their first industrial Digital Twin project, not just for the technical content, but also for the clear guidance on using Digital Twins to solve real-world business problems.

Dan Isaacs

CTO Digital Twin Consortium

Shyam Varan Nath is a Specialist Leader, Analytics and Cognitive, at Deloitte. Prior to this, he worked for Oracle, General Electric, IBM, and Halliburton. He is the primary author of two books, Industrial Digital Transformation, and Architecting the Industrial Internet. His expertise involves IIoT, cloud computing, databases, AI/ML, and business analytics. He has worked on driving digital transformation at several large companies. He is a Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) and very active on Twitter; @Shyamvaran. He is the founder of the analytics user group called AnDOUC (formerly BIWA). He has an undergraduate degree from IIT Kanpur, India, as well as an MSc (in computer science) and an MBA from FAU, Boca Raton, Florida. Shyam is part of the Program Committee of IoTSWC and a regular speaker at large technology events. He can be contacted at ShyamVaran@gmail.com.

I wish to thank all my professional colleagues from the companies I have worked at for the valuable experience I acquired during that time, along with all those industry professionals in the fields of AI, IoT, Digital Twins, and cloud computing, with whom I interact on a regular basis and meet at technology events. I am grateful for the various activities and publications from Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) that help me stay current. And finally, many thanks to my co-author and friend, Pieter, and the editorial team at Packt, who made this book possible.

Pieter van Schalkwyk, CEO at XMPro, is an experienced engineer and technologist who helps organizations use real-time, event-based Digital Twins to improve situational awareness, process efficiency, and decision making without disrupting operations. He is recognized as a thought leader in industrial digital transformation and has written and spoken extensively on topics including digital twins, IIoT, AI/ML, and industrial blockchain applications. Pieter holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and a master's degree in information technology. He chairs the Natural Resources Working Group in the Digital Twin Consortium (DTC). Prior to this, Pieter was the chair of the Digital Twin Interoperability Task Group within the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). In February 2019, Pieter received the IIC Technical Innovation Award. He describes himself as an entrepreneur at heart, technology enthusiast, team builder, and aspiring Ironman triathlete.

A big thank you to my colleagues at XMPro and the members of the Digital Twin Consortium who continue to challenge me to explore how to use digital twins to create safer, greener, and more responsible industrial operations faster. A special thank you to Gavin Green and Muhammad Ali for your technical help and support, Kirsten Schwarzer for brainstorming ideas, and Steve Howcroft for your continued encouragement with the book. Shyam, thank you for inviting me to co-author the book with you and thank you to the Packt editorial team, who made it a reality. Finally, I'd like to thank my wife, Andri, for letting me indulge my passion. I admire your amazing patience, and I'm so grateful to go through life with you.

Joseph Philip is the director of PSOTS Ltd., based in London, UK, offering consultancy services since 2013 to the digital twins industry in the energy sector. Joseph has been delivering operator training simulators and digital twins in the oil and gas, chemicals, energy, and petrochemical sectors for more than 30 years.

These systems have been delivered all over the world to major companies including BP, Shell, Total, and many others, and he has also been responsible for delivering power plant simulators to Australia and Asia while working for Yokogawa Australia. He moved to the UK in 2001 and started working for AspenTech. In 2004, he began working for Honeywell, before moving to Invensys (Schneider Electric) in 2007, delivering OTS and DT systems in Europe, the US, China, and the Middle East.