Digital twins — a virtual replication of a real-world object, place, thing, or other material object — are increasingly gaining ground across multiple market sectors. While digital twins evoke metaverse-style imaginings, and the term certainly applies, we can also think of a digital twin as a means by which real-world systems and processes can be more easily measured, experimented upon and ultimately brought back into the material world once optimized.For example, research shows that digital twins can help ...