The Ultimate Guide to Digital twins
A curated Asian edition of TechDay news, analysis, interviews, reviews, job moves, and related resources for Digital twins.
What to know about Digital twins
Digital twins represent a cutting-edge technology that creates virtual replicas of physical environments, systems, or processes. These digital counterparts allow organizations to simulate, analyze, and optimize real-world operations in a dynamic virtual setting. By bridging the physical and digital worlds, digital twins are transforming diverse sectors, from transportation and manufacturing to urban planning and supply chain management.
Exploring our stories on digital twins reveals how companies worldwide leverage this technology to enhance efficiency, improve decision-making, and support sustainability goals. Readers can learn about the latest advancements, including AI-integrated simulations, digital twin marketplaces, and industrial metaverse applications. Understanding digital twins offers valuable insights into how enterprises drive innovation, manage complex systems, and prepare for the digital future.
Asian Digital twins News
Regional stories with direct local relevance
Rockwell Automation showcases AI & digitalisation in Jakarta
Nearly 400 industrial leaders gathered as manufacturers in Indonesia weighed AI, analytics and digital tools to tackle costs and complexity.
GSMA Foundry & NUHS partner on 5G connected health
GSMA Foundry and Singapore's NUHS join forces to trial 5G, AI and XR hospital innovations in Singapore before scaling globally.
GSMA & NUHS team on 5G, AI to power smart hospitals
GSMA Foundry and NUHS will trial 5G, AI and XR in Singapore hospitals, showcasing remote surgery and robot nurses at MWC26 Barcelona.
HD Hyundai adopts Siemens platform for digital shipyards
HD Hyundai will deploy Siemens Xcelerator across its shipyards, creating a unified digital platform from ship design to production by 2030.
OVHcloud unveils AI & quantum platforms to boost digital autonomy
OVHcloud launches AI and Quantum-as-a-Service platforms, plus digital twin tools, to boost European businesses' digital autonomy and innovation.
Quantum, agentic AI & Web 4.0 to transform cybersecurity
Quantum computing, agentic AI, and Web 4.0 will revolutionise cybersecurity by 2026, demanding new strategies for autonomy, threat defence, and infrastructure resilience.
Analyst Insights
Research and market analysis connected to Digital twins
Gartner warns misconfigured AI could halt G20 power
NETSCOUT boosts 5G slicing visibility for operators
Gartner maps nine AI-driven work trends CHROs face by 2026
Celonis leads Forrester's 2025 process intelligence report
Celonis named process intelligence leader in Forrester's 2025 report
Expert Columns
In 2026, AI is setting course for maritime competitiveness
From hype to reality: The three forces defining security in 2026
Five AI shifts that will redefine enterprise strategy in 2026
The agentic AI revolution: Experts explain key business trends
When emergency strikes, it's time for a native zero-trust network
Interviews
Interviews and video coverage from the networkRecent Digital twins News
Alpha Ladder patents framework for carbon-backed stablecoins
Singapore's Alpha Ladder Group patents a framework for carbon-backed stablecoins, linking real-world decarbonisation projects to blockchain technology for greener finance.
Alpha Ladder Finance secures patent for NFDT tokenisation tech
Alpha Ladder Finance patents NFDT tokenisation tech in Singapore, enhancing real-world asset digital twins with compliance and real-time data features.
HUMAIN & NVIDIA in AI partnership to build Saudi data hubs
HUMAIN partners with NVIDIA to build AI infrastructure and supercomputing capacity in Saudi Arabia, aiming to make it a global AI and digital hub.
NVIDIA's AI & digital twins transform Taiwanese manufacturing
At COMPUTEX, NVIDIA unveiled AI and digital twin technologies, paving the way for autonomous manufacturing in Taiwan's major electronics firms like Foxconn and Delta Electronics.
SAS launches AI supply chain agent in industry push
Retailers and manufacturers could get near real-time planning help as SAS opens a private preview of a supply chain agent.
FPT, Intel partner on AI-driven factory optimisation
Manufacturers could cut bottlenecks and speed output as the pair link live data, simulation and AI across factory systems.
Ntt Data launches AI agent for multivendor IT estates
It aims to cut manual work for IT teams by unifying multivendor infrastructure management through natural language prompts and human oversight.
SUSE unveils AI partnerships amid sovereignty push
Many firms still struggle to turn digital sovereignty aims into action, despite SUSE's new AI and infrastructure deals with NVIDIA and others.
Adobe adds brand intelligence to GenStudio marketing tools
Marketers could gain tighter oversight as Adobe ties AI agents to brand guidelines, approvals and performance data across GenStudio.
Casting a wide net: Vection Technologies' push across emerging tech markets
Investor attention is shifting to Vection Technologies as it bets on AI, XR and acquisitions to win contracts across defence, healthcare and real estate.
GreyOrange launches AI simulator for warehouse planning
It aims to help warehouse operators cut the risk of costly retrofits by testing automation and labour scenarios before spending capital.
Neara adopts ClickHouse ClickStack for observability
It should help Neara's engineers resolve incidents more than 50% faster as the utility software company handles seven terabytes of data a month.
Tech Mahindra & ParkourSC expand AI supply chain deal
Pharma and cold chain operators could gain faster disruption response as the two firms roll out AI tools across global supply networks.
British Business Bank backs Dexory's global expansion
The funding gives the warehouse robotics firm more firepower to expand overseas as logistics operators seek tighter control of stock and space.
Energy & chemicals sector ramps up autonomy by 2030
Energy and chemicals groups target 80% autonomous operations by 2030 as AI-led automation accelerates amid costs, labour gaps and demand.
AutoStore unveils CubeVerse AI platform for warehouses
AutoStore debuts CubeVerse cloud and AI tools to boost warehouse throughput and real-time fulfilment without adding robots or grid space.
TrendAI links with HPE to secure private cloud AI stack
TrendAI integrates its AI security platform with HPE Private Cloud AI to secure enterprise AI deployments from infrastructure to applications.
TrendAI, Nvidia bring digital twin security to AI hubs
TrendAI and Nvidia link DSX Air with digital twin security tools so AI datacentre “factories” can be hardened before hardware is built.
UK lags China & US in race to digital, AI-led factories
China and the US are racing ahead of the UK in adopting AI-led, software-defined factories, raising fresh fears over British competitiveness.
Vertiv & Nvidia boost AI data centre design with DSX
Vertiv and Nvidia deepen collaboration on simulation-ready AI data centre blueprints to cut deployment risk and speed build-out at scale.