Digital Twins

Fabrik is pioneering digital twins for critical infrastructure at scale.

The precursor to digital twins were "living models" used for lunar missions by NASA in the 1960s. Outside the expensive space frontier, the majority of sectors have used 3D Computer-Aided Design (CAD) models and physical simulations using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). These instances of living models have been expensive on time and resources with cutting edge computers of the day used to perform complex mathematical calculations, guided by skilled scientists and computer professionals over many months to achieve outputs worth using in the real world.

Fast-forward to today, the complex mathematics are performed on our handheld devices quickly without enormous power consumption. And just like that digital twins with GIS (Geographic Information System), CAD, time-series data (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport - MQTT), RCA (Root Cause Analysis), SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures), tribal or tacit knowledge, and other key sources of information are accessible on our devices as easily as email or photos.

Naturally, the folks who have made living models over the last century are adopting digital twins, and for the same reason they made living models in the first place - to ensure system integrity, safety, minimise man and material losses, and operate under harsh environments with 99.9999% uptime.

How to make digital twins?

The approach for successful implementation of digital twins has been consultative. Our team works closely with the business/department to understand the current challenges and systems in-place to solve specific problems. Following the assessment, we meticulously introduce digital twin capabilities one step-at-a-time through rapid iterative deployments to see quick results and build on top of them.

Fabrik's ability to add a new dimension to collaborative working is the key differentiator since it brings all stakeholders from the field technician to the chief operating officer on the same page with a simple URL.

Achieve upto 25% operational efficiency

Whether it is supervisory interventionist, Fabrik's digital twin platform achieves high levels of efficiency due to the ability to provide access and present information that makes it easy to make decisions. Our customers are using Fabrik's digital twins for various use-cases:

1. Supervision, for large infrastructure (like oil refineries), Fabrik's digital twins provides a bird's eye view, a process view, and an equipment view for teams to process information quicker and make decisions. This is an add-on to the existing command and control infrastructure to proactively intervene and reduce losses. In 24/7/365 operations, information processing time and cost is high, and Fabrik reduces this cost.
2. Intervention, for equipment (defence) that operate in harsh conditions, the ability to inform operators about potential failures, the root cause, and the guided procedure to avoid failures ensures operational success of the mission without loss of expensive equipment.
3. Visual historian, for aircrafts that typically have a lifespan of 15-30 years. Damage assessment and correction is done through a series of checks every few hundred hours, and visually locating damages are of paramount importance to avoid catastrophic failures. Aircraft inspection teams and MROs use Fabrik's visual historian to audit and record damages on the body of the aircraft.