April 28, 2024
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Florida's quote of the day
" You can predict failures before they occur."
-- Michael Grieves, the executive director of Florida Institute of Technology's Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Innovative Design in Melbourne
The manufacturing industry's growing demand for simulated "digital twins," which can allow early testing of products before they are built, could boost Central Florida's budding sensor industry.
"Digital twins" use a virtual environment to recreate the systems that make products such as a driverless car or a wind turbine function.
Variables — perhaps hurricane-force winds on a turbine — can then be introduced into these systems to see how products would perform.
Read more at the Orlando Sentinel.
