What is a Digital Twin?
A digital twin is a virtual representation of a physical object or a system across its lifecycle. Using real-time data, digital twins replicate the behavior and performance of their physical counterparts. This powerful technology enables businesses to simulate, analyze, and optimize product performance and processes before they are built or modified in the real world.
Eclat Digital’s Ocean™ realistic rendering software focuses on the optical simulation of objects, from samples to complex in-situ scenes. It considers the laws of geometric optics and the optical behavior of materials to accurately reproduce the interactions between light sources and products. This scientific approach generates reliable digital twins that can be used in the development phase for faster iteration and reduction of physical samples.
It enables comprehensive data integration and process simulation to create an accurate optical model. Designing product prototypes with a digital twin system is an asset for future innovation in a more sustainable framework.
Using Digital Twin for product design phases
Product design prototyping with virtual technology offers a number of advantages that lead to a reduction in development process times and costs. Thanks to the rapid iteration process enabled by digital models and a rigorous scientific approach, Ocean™ provides digital twins that are physically true for use by ambitious and demanding companies.
Design optimization with Digital Twins
Digital twins provide an environment for rigorous testing and iteration without the cost or time constraints associated with physical prototypes. They allow engineers to simulate various scenarios and optimize the design for performance, durability, and efficiency. This not only speeds up the development process but also ensures a higher quality product.
Figure 1: Two iterations of a design on a digital twin of a watch generated with Ocean™
Digital twins with Ocean™ enable precise appearance assessments such as color control for various applications. See our use cases for the jewelry industry, where physical samples are extremely costly, ensuring the desired aesthetic without physical prototyping:
Digital Twins to improve product quality
The use of digital twins in development phases leads to significant improvements in product quality. Through the virtual conduction of feasibility studies and in-depth analysis of optical phenomena, Digital Twins with Ocean™ addresses the management of optical artifacts and the mitigation of visual distortions in the watch or architecture industries. It is also useful for detecting parasitic reflections or visual discomfort, providing the data to design and test corrective measures such as anti-reflection or anti-glare treatments to improve screen readability for mobile phone or automotive applications.
Figure 2: Application of an anti-reflection treatment on a digital twin of a mobile phone screen glass to observe visual improvements for the user. Digital Twins generated with Ocean™
Enhanced Collaboration Between Teams
Digital twins foster better collaboration among cross-functional teams. By providing a reliable virtual model, designers, engineers, and stakeholders can work together more effectively on the same products. This collaborative approach helps in identifying potential issues early and making informed decisions that enhance product quality and performance.
Figure 3: Product design process without digital twin
Figure 4: Product design process with digital twin
Ocean™: Ensuring accuracy and reliability in the generation of Digital Twins:
Ocean™ is the leading tool for creating reliable digital twins, especially for optical and materials simulations. With an expert blend of optical science, lighting technology and powerful data analysis capabilities, our optical simulation software delivers an accurate digital twin to improve the design process and physical models right the first time:
Advanced Global Illumination Rendering:
Ocean™ excels in global illumination rendering, a technique that accurately simulates both direct and indirect light. This results in highly realistic images and data that closely mimic real-world behaviors. Such precision is crucial for creating digital twins that are reliable and predictive. A future article will cover the importance of Global Illumination for accurate rendering.
Robust Ray Tracing and Path Tracing Techniques
Ocean™ employs sophisticated ray tracing and path tracing technologies to simulate the interaction of light with materials. These techniques ensure that the digital twin is an exact replica of the physical object, providing reliable data for design optimization and decision-making processes. A future article will cover the importance of path tracing technology for accurate rendering.
High Computational Performance
Thanks to its robust computational capabilities, Ocean™ can handle complex simulations quickly and accurately. It supports fully detailed CAD models with several million polygons to consider exact solution of geometric optics and combines it with a full-spectral lighting algorithm. This efficiency is critical in reducing development times and costs, enabling faster iterations and time-to-market for new products.
Comprehensive Material Characterization
Ocean™ integrates detailed optical properties of materials into its simulations. Through the use of precise laboratory measurements, this realistic rendering software ensures that the behavior of the digital twin is an accurate reflection of its real-world counterpart. This accuracy is invaluable for industries that rely on precise material performance, such as automotive, architecture, jewerly, consumer electronics & materials processing industries.
Figure 5: Thanks to precise optical material measurements of the physical sample, Ocean™ provides an accurate digital twin of a car paint, replicating the complex light behavior of components such as sparkle.
Endorsed by Industry Standards
Ocean™ is endorsed by the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) in accordance with CIE 171:2006 standards. This endorsement highlights the software’s reliability and precision, making it a trusted tool for creating digital twins that meet rigorous industry standards.
Competitive advantages of using Ocean™ to generate accurate digital twins:
Ocean™’s advanced technology and precise rendering capabilities make it the leading solution for creating reliable digital twins. It provides users with strong competitive advantages in rapidly transforming industries such as:
- Advanced Rendering and Predictive Capabilities: Ocean™ uses sophisticated techniques such as Global Illumination and Path Tracing to create highly accurate digital twins that replicate the optical behavior of real-world products. This physically true simulation of light and material properties provides enhanced predictive images, making it an invaluable asset for design and engineering applications.
- High-Fidelity Simulations: With its use of full-spectral calculations, this statistically unbiased spectral polarized solver, delivers high-fidelity simulations that are essential for precise product development and analysis. With the ability to compute fully detailed CAD models with millions of polygons, our scientific rendering software can create digital twins of not only simple products, but also complex environments.
- Reliable Data for Research and Development: Ocean™ integrates detailed optical properties of materials into its simulations, providing reliable data that is crucial for research and development. This accuracy supports rigorous testing and iterative improvements, driving innovation and ensuring that new products meet high standards of performance and quality.
Figure 6: Ocean™ generates accurate digital twins of complex environments, taking into account the interactions of all materials and light sources properties. The results of this accurate simulation of light behavior can also be used for light quantification and data analysis.
Eclat Digital’s engineering and development teams perform careful controls to assess the accuracy of the results, some of which are detailed in the articles below:
Conclusion – Digital Twins: paving the way for innovation in Product Design
Digital twins are transforming product design, enhancing collaboration, improving product quality, and optimizing development phases. Ocean™ is at the forefront of this evolution, providing a reliable and accurate tool for generating digital twins. With its advanced rendering techniques, robust computational power, and comprehensive material characterization, Ocean™ ensures that your digital twins are as closely replicating the reality, driving innovation and efficiency in your business.
By leveraging digital twins, companies can utilize real-world data to create accurate models, optimizing processes and enhancing product quality. This integration of real data and virtual models streamlines innovation, driving better business outcomes and efficiency.
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