The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently completed a study on the use of digital twins to protect manufacturing equipment from cybersecurity threats. Digital twins—virtual copies of physical objects—can run in tandem with machinery and provide operational data about what is happening inside the machine, without necessitating humans to be on the factory floor and put the performance and safety of the process at risk.
Standards provide vital contributions to the development of digital twin technology and the use of these systems to support the automotive and aerospace industries, healthcare, and manufacturing. Find out how . . .
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Why do your plumbing pipes always fit together? Well, the first standard ever approved by ANSI (as its precursor organization, the American Engineering Standards Committee) was a connection solution for pipe threads in 1919. Learn more at ansi.org/history.
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