For Siemens Canada, the launch of the Digital factory as a part of Vision 2020 denoted a high-tech resurgence. For many years, the company had been involved in enabling its industrial customers to go to market faster with their products; however, doing so without incurring huge costs was a perennial challenge, both for its customers and for Siemens as a facilitator. Siemens engineers started looking at a seemingly fictional scenario: enabling an industrial customer to deep dive into manufacturing not only without setting up physical infrastructure but also without even having a finished product on the table. They found the answer in Digital twins (DT).

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