The Ultimate Guide to Digital twins
A curated Kiwi edition of TechDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for Digital twins.
What to know about Digital twins
Digital twins represent a cutting-edge technology that creates virtual replicas of physical environments, systems, or processes. These digital counterparts allow organizations to simulate, analyze, and optimize real-world operations in a dynamic virtual setting. By bridging the physical and digital worlds, digital twins are transforming diverse sectors, from transportation and manufacturing to urban planning and supply chain management.
Exploring our stories on digital twins reveals how companies worldwide leverage this technology to enhance efficiency, improve decision-making, and support sustainability goals. Readers can learn about the latest advancements, including AI-integrated simulations, digital twin marketplaces, and industrial metaverse applications. Understanding digital twins offers valuable insights into how enterprises drive innovation, manage complex systems, and prepare for the digital future.
Kiwi Digital twins News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
Digital twin cuts costs & emissions at Te Rua archive
The archive’s digital model kept contingency spending at 5% and helped slash emissions by 80%, easing risk on NZD $290 million project.
The 5 trends that will shape the scale of AI in 2026
AI's 2026 breakthrough will hinge on power, cooling, smarter grids and skills as data centres scale to support hotter, denser workloads.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to Digital twins
Gartner warns misconfigured AI could halt G20 power
NETSCOUT boosts 5G slicing visibility for operators
Gartner maps nine AI-driven work trends CHROs face by 2026
Celonis leads Forrester's 2025 process intelligence report
Celonis named process intelligence leader in Forrester's 2025 report
Expert Columns
The 5 trends that will shape the scale of AI in 2026
The smart money is on inclusion
In 2026, AI is setting course for maritime competitiveness
From hype to reality: The three forces defining security in 2026
Five AI shifts that will redefine enterprise strategy in 2026
AI and the future of supply chains: Moving from predictive to adaptive
The future of smart buildings: How video and AI are shaping seamless user experiences
The agentic AI revolution: Experts explain key business trends
When emergency strikes, it's time for a native zero-trust network
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the networkRecent Digital twins News
Brightly adds AI tools for asset management systems
The update aims to ease manual data entry and give maintenance teams better visibility as organisations struggle with fragmented asset records.
Dell expands AI Factory with NVIDIA for enterprise use
Enterprises can now run more AI projects on their own infrastructure as Dell adds data tools, racks and partner software to its NVIDIA tie-up.
SAS launches AI supply chain agent in industry push
Retailers and manufacturers could get near real-time planning help as SAS opens a private preview of a supply chain agent.
FPT, Intel partner on AI-driven factory optimisation
Manufacturers could cut bottlenecks and speed output as the pair link live data, simulation and AI across factory systems.
Ntt Data launches AI agent for multivendor IT estates
It aims to cut manual work for IT teams by unifying multivendor infrastructure management through natural language prompts and human oversight.
SUSE unveils AI partnerships amid sovereignty push
Many firms still struggle to turn digital sovereignty aims into action, despite SUSE's new AI and infrastructure deals with NVIDIA and others.
Adobe adds brand intelligence to GenStudio marketing tools
Marketers could gain tighter oversight as Adobe ties AI agents to brand guidelines, approvals and performance data across GenStudio.
Casting a wide net: Vection Technologies' push across emerging tech markets
Investor attention is shifting to Vection Technologies as it bets on AI, XR and acquisitions to win contracts across defence, healthcare and real estate.
GreyOrange launches AI simulator for warehouse planning
It aims to help warehouse operators cut the risk of costly retrofits by testing automation and labour scenarios before spending capital.
Neara adopts ClickHouse ClickStack for observability
It should help Neara's engineers resolve incidents more than 50% faster as the utility software company handles seven terabytes of data a month.
Tech Mahindra & ParkourSC expand AI supply chain deal
Pharma and cold chain operators could gain faster disruption response as the two firms roll out AI tools across global supply networks.
Energy & chemicals sector ramps up autonomy by 2030
Energy and chemicals groups target 80% autonomous operations by 2030 as AI-led automation accelerates amid costs, labour gaps and demand.
AutoStore unveils CubeVerse AI platform for warehouses
AutoStore debuts CubeVerse cloud and AI tools to boost warehouse throughput and real-time fulfilment without adding robots or grid space.
TrendAI links with HPE to secure private cloud AI stack
TrendAI integrates its AI security platform with HPE Private Cloud AI to secure enterprise AI deployments from infrastructure to applications.
TrendAI, Nvidia bring digital twin security to AI hubs
TrendAI and Nvidia link DSX Air with digital twin security tools so AI datacentre “factories” can be hardened before hardware is built.
Vertiv & Nvidia boost AI data centre design with DSX
Vertiv and Nvidia deepen collaboration on simulation-ready AI data centre blueprints to cut deployment risk and speed build-out at scale.
TCS unveils Nvidia-powered Rapid Outcome AI platform
TCS launches Nvidia-based Rapid Outcome AI to help enterprises scale predictive, generative and vision AI across operations and industries.
AVEVA, Nvidia tie up on digital twins for AI Factories
AVEVA and Nvidia are building lifecycle digital twins to design, run and optimise gigawatt-scale AI Factories and data centres.
Schneider & NVIDIA unveil AI factory blueprints, twins
Schneider and NVIDIA roll out AI factory blueprints, digital twins and alarm AI to cut design risk and speed 'time-to-token' at scale.