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Designing Digital Twins: A Problem-First Approach to Bridging the Real and Virtual Worlds Kindle Edition

by Rob Foster (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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ABOUT THE BOOK

Designing Digital Twins is a groundbreaking guide for industry leaders, domain experts, and technology professionals seeking to harness the power of digital twins and applied AI. Rob Foster draws on decades of industrial and technology experience to provide a comprehensive framework for creating interconnected solutions that drive real-world change. This book bridges the gap between technology capabilities and real-world outcomes, offering practical strategies to design, implement, and measure the success of digital twins across various industries. Foster's Digital Twin Design Process (DTDP) empowers readers to solve complex, cross-silo challenges and achieve measurable improvements in their organizations.

If you're looking to unlock the true potential of digital twins and applied AI, this book provides the playbook to design solutions that don’t just simulate reality – but change it.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rob Foster is passionate about solving real-world problems with smart, practical technology. With over two decades of experience in engineering and digital innovation, Rob has become a trusted advisor for businesses navigating the fast-changing digital landscape. As the CEO of Geminum, Rob helps organizations connect people, processes, and data using digital twin technology to enable AI, unlock efficiency and drive results. He’s known for making complex concepts clear, approachable, and actionable – whether he’s speaking at global conferences or working alongside front line supervisors on the factory floor. Rob’s journey began as amechanical engineer tackling operational challenges on the ground. Over time, he saw how emerging technologies simplify and enhance collaboration and decision-making. His experiences shaped the insights in Designing Digital Twins, a book designed to help anyone – from business leaders to tech enthusiasts – understand and use digital twins to enable AI and transform how we work and solve problems.
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Feasible Ecosystem Change: Designing Digital Twins
Free templates and tools available

The Digital Twin Design Process (DTDP) is a structured, iterative process for designing digital twins and applied AI solutions (e.g. agents). The DTDP is covered in detail in the book Designing Digital Twins.

  • Defining the Problem
  • Connected Action Mapping

A Practical Guide for Designing Real-World Solutions

Practical insights from real-world experience

Written by a builder, not a theorist.

Rob Foster brings 20+ years of hands-on experience across mining, power, oil & gas, and digital transformation. This book distils what works – and what doesn’t – when designing digital twins and applying AI in the real world.

Whether you’re an engineer, PM, or executive, you’ll walk away with ideas you can use now.

  • How to define valuable, real-world problems
  • The 4-stage Digital Twin Design Process
  • Use cases across operations, product, and project domains
  • Tips to avoid common failure modes
  • Advice for engineers, PMs, execs, and tech leads

The Digital Twin Design Process

The Digital Twin Design Process is a repeatable and flexible process for working backwards from Problems to Data, and working forwards from Capabilities to Real World Change. Digital twin and applied AI builders can use the process to collaborate with domain experts to ideate what change is required to solve the Problem and how this change will be created across the real and virtual worlds. The resulting solution and change designs are human centric and feasible within the constraints of the operating environment.

Flowchart diagram illustrating the Digital Twin Design Process

Create Wide Twins with Narrow Use Cases

Diagram showing concept of creating wide digital twins with narrow use cases.

Platforms often suffer from excessive Capabilities and insufficient Data to solve specific Problems

Anchoring Capabilities with Problem classes enables multiple narrow use cases to be built, each of which can be measured separately and iterated to improve value creation.

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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 1, 2025
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  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Rob is passionate about solving real-world problems with smart, practical technology. With over two decades of experience in engineering and digital innovation, Rob has become a trusted advisor for businesses navigating the fast-changing digital landscape.

As the CEO of Geminum, Rob helps industrial organizations connect people, processes, and data using digital twins and applied AI to unlock efficiency and drive results. He’s known for making complex concepts clear, approachable, and actionable – whether he’s speaking at global conferences or working alongside industry leaders.

Rob’s journey began as a mechanical engineer tackling operational challenges on the ground and in the design office. Over time, he saw how emerging technologies simplified and enhanced collaboration and decision-making. His experiences led to the world of digital transformation and B2B SaaS, before taking the plunge to found and run a tech co focused on creating connected change for industrial organizations.

These experiences shaped the insights in ‘Designing Digital Twins,’ a book designed to help anyone – from business leaders to tech enthusiasts to maintenance managers – understand and design digital twins to effectively enable AI and transform how we work and solve problems.

Free templates and tools are available to support this framework at designingdigitaltwins.com.

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  • David
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great read on a complex topic
    Reviewed in Australia on May 25, 2025
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    Designing Digital Twins" is a real gem. Rob Foster nails it by focusing on solving real problems instead of just geeking out over tech. The step-by-step approach (the DTDP) is super easy to follow, and I love how he’s upfront about the messy challenges of real-world tech and provides advice on how to get the outcome. Perfect for anyone in IoT or digital transformation.
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  • Aman R
    5.0 out of 5 stars Product thinking for spatial and non-spatial
    Reviewed in Australia on June 1, 2025
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    Excellent read on product thinking for digital twins and AI. The author has clearly built a lot of solutions that use IOT and spatial data. It was refreshing to follow discussions aimed at improving product thinking for an industry that is traditionally project oriented.
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  • John R
    5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to read advice on digital twins
    Reviewed in Australia on May 24, 2025
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    I have been waiting for a good book on this topic and finally found one. I really liked the tone of the book. Very easy to read, feels like the author is talking to you and giving you personal advice. So many things in the advice sections that I am re-reading already. Highly recommend.
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    Easy to read advice on digital twins

    Reviewed in Australia on May 24, 2025
    I have been waiting for a good book on this topic and finally found one. I really liked the tone of the book. Very easy to read, feels like the author is talking to you and giving you personal advice. So many things in the advice sections that I am re-reading already. Highly recommend.
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  • Justin
    5.0 out of 5 stars Not just a 3D model
    Reviewed in Australia on May 24, 2025
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    Yes! I think we finally have proof that digital twins are not just 3D models. I’m only through Part 1 but really enjoying it.
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