Digital Twin Consortium Open-Source Collaboration Community to Drive Digital Twin Adoption

Summary

May 12, 2021 -  Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) announced an open-source collaboration community to accelerate the adoption of digital twin-enabling technologies and solutions. Consortium members and non-members can collaborate on open-source projects, code, and collateral and become part of the DTC ecosystem.

To contribute to the new open-source collaboration community, candidates complete a project application, which the DTC Technical Advisory Committee reviews. If approved, contributors upload their project or related content to the DTC Open-Source Collaboration GitHub site. GitHub is an open-source repository hosting service, which contains project files and revision history, and enables participants to share and collaborate on digital twin-related content and projects.

"Open-source collaboration will encourage innovation in digital twin solutions," said Dr. Said Tabet, distinguished engineer, chief architect emerging technology & Ecosystems, CTO Office, DELL Technologies, and DTC Steering Committee member. "Our Open-Source Collaboration Community will also accelerate the adoption of digital twins and drive business transformation."

"Open-source projects produce high-quality software," said David McKee, CEO, CTO & founder, Slingshot Simulations, and co-chair of DTC Technology, Terminology, and Taxonomy, and Open Source, Standards, and Platform Stacks Working Groups. "The open-source knowledge pool is orders of magnitude larger with communities of interest coming together to solve common challenges and contributing a diversity of ideas."

"Open-source projects are more flexible and respond more rapidly to market demands than closed counterparts," said Dan Isaacs, CTO, DTC. "Our Open-Source Collaboration Community initiative will substantially expand the DTC ecosystem and facilitate the adoption of digital twin and digital twin enabling technologies."

About Digital Twin Consortium

Digital Twin Consortium is The Authority in Digital Twin. It coalesces industry, government, and academia to drive consistency in vocabulary, architecture, security, and interoperability of digital twin technology. It advances the use of digital twin technology in many industries, from aerospace to natural resources.

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