Industrial IMMERSIVE Brief | January 3, 2025

Digital Twin Wins: ConocoPhillips is Transforming Operations

The company is taking digital twins worldwide, aiming to give identical digital siblings to the entire global portfolio of assets. It’s like a digital family reunion. 

With digital twins, workers can locate equipment faster than your GPS can reroute when you make a wrong turn. Digital twins are also helping keep workers out of hazardous environments, making safety uncompromised. ConocoPhillips has achieved jaw-dropping efficiency, with maintenance tasks taking less time, leaving room for whatever digital twins do in their free time.

They don’t need to look in the mirror, ConocoPhillips has this twin thing down.

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Industrial IMMERSIVE’s 2024 Top Game-Changing Tech

Well, well, well, look who’s made it to the end of 2024. We’ve seen XR, robotics, AI, and digital twins making moves in ways we never thought possible.

To end the year, we’re looking back at our top stories, covering all things immersive tech in industrial spaces. Here are those stories.

Generative AI: The Secret Sauce for Predictive Maintenance in Energy

Generative AI isn’t just for creating deepfake videos of celebrities—it's revolutionizing predictive maintenance! Say goodbye to downtime and hello to smarter, more reliable energy systems. It’s like having a crystal ball for your equipment.

A Closer Future: New Technologies for Human Connection

Meta’s Dan Nieves gave us a sneak peek into the future of work—where mixed reality is your new BFF. By the end of the decade, we might all have photorealistic avatars. I’m already imagining my avatar with a way better hair day.

Unlocking the Potential of Digital Twins

Digital twins are helping industries across the board optimize operations, reduce emissions, and predict the future.

Immersive Technologies in Industrial Enterprises

From VR/AR to XR, these tech marvels are reducing training time, improving safety, and attracting younger talent like magnets. Trust me, it’s not magic—just really smart tech doing its thing.

Top Article Alert

It’s a tie at the top! Industrial AI: A Pivotal Moment and Navigating Business Transformation with Digital Twins in Oil and Gas both brought home the gold. These technologies are definitely the talk of the town, whether it’s AI optimizing workflows or digital twins reimagining operations in oil and gas. If you missed these, now’s your chance to catch up before 2025 steals the spotlight.

Dive into the full recap of all our must-read stories of 2024.

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What tech trend do you think is going to blow up in 2025? Hit reply and let us know.

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WHAT ELSE?

• HD Hyundai Infracore revolutionizes construction machinery maintenance with Unity-powered AR Guidance. Learn how their Global Product Support team leverages AR for troubleshooting and efficiency.
• Schaeffler has embraced the NavVis VLX, a wearable 3D scanner from NavVis, to capture indoor environments in 360º and integrate them into its digital twin platform, NavVis Ivion. With this technology, a 500,000-square-foot factory can be scanned in less than a week. To date, the company has created digital twins for 48 factories, scanning over 16 million square feet. With this digital twin technology, project lead times for data capture are up to 80% shorter compared to traditional methods.
• ENGAGE announced version 3.10 of its flagship application, which allows professionals and classrooms to work together in shared virtual spaces. The new update looks to enhance AI integrations, desktop controls, and session access-including improving the integration of Meta’s AI Llama framework.
• The AEC industry is modernizing its data sharing practices. Geo Week News spoke with Zelus about the transformation of their data-sharing workflows, turning to digital solutions that specialize in the transfer of large data files. 
• PTC has confirmed it is partnering with Microsoft and the Volkswagen Group on a generative AI product for software development in physical products.
• Saipem, a company specializing in engineering services for the energy and infrastructure sectors, and AVEVA, a provider of industrial software, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to co-develop artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions.
• NASA has shared footage showing astronauts using VR headsets to learn what it will be like aboard the Lunar Gateway space station.

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