The beginning of any digital twin is the digitization of the physical asset. This is where GDS assists, capturing your infrastructure with high precision 3D laser scanning to establish the foundation for a reliable digital model. From there, GDS consults and guides your team through the process of creating and advancing a living digital asset that evolves with your operations.
Our detailed service overview, available in the GDS Digital Twin Services PDF, provides a clear outline of how we deliver digital twins that improve efficiency, reduce costs, and strengthen asset management.
Every digital twin starts with accuracy. GDS provides an asset digitization service that records geometry and critical details through advanced laser scanning. This ensures a complete, high fidelity foundation for predictive maintenance, planning, and simulation.
Refineries face complex operating conditions and high costs. A refinery digital twin allows operators to simulate performance, detect inefficiencies, and plan maintenance with greater confidence, reducing downtime and risk.
Utilities must balance demand, plan for resilience, and integrate renewables. A grid digital twin enables forecasting, stress testing, and long term asset planning to strengthen system reliability and extend infrastructure life.
A digital twin is more than a model. It is a digital repository where all physical assets are cataloged and organized. GDS partners with companies to integrate GIS mapping, SCADA systems, and engineering data into a single digital framework. This ensures that critical asset information is accessible, connected, and continuously updated as operations evolve.
Define scope, project goals, and asset priorities
Capture physical assets through laser scanning and data collection
Partner with your team to integrate GIS and SCADA data
Build the living model with updates and version control
Deliver insight through simulation, analytics, and structured asset repositories
This process ensures speed, accuracy, and reduced risk while building a digital twin that grows with your infrastructure.
Q1. Where does the digital twin process begin?
A1. It begins by digitizing the physical asset. GDS captures accurate scans that form the foundation for your living digital asset.
Q2. Can you build refinery digital twins?
A2. Yes. GDS creates refinery digital twins that model plant operations, improve planning, and support safer, more efficient performance.
Q3. Do you provide grid digital twin solutions for utilities?
A3. Yes. Our grid digital twin services help utilities forecast demand, plan resilience, and integrate renewable energy sources.
Q4. How does GDS handle GIS and SCADA integration?
A4. We partner with your team to align GIS mapping and SCADA data with your digital twin, creating a connected repository of physical assets.
Q5. Do you work with industries outside of infrastructure and utilities?
A5. Yes. Our core competency is turning the physical into the digital. GDS consults with asset owners across industries such as aerospace, oil and gas, and manufacturing to ensure assets are collected, organized, and managed in a systematic way.
Q6. What is the cost and ROI of a digital twin?
A6. Project cost depends on scope and scale. GDS helps you define clear goals and demonstrates ROI through efficiency gains, reduced downtime, and centralized asset visibility.
Q7. Who owns the data in a digital twin?
A7. You retain ownership of your asset data. GDS ensures your digital twin remains under your control while integrating with your existing systems.
Take the first step toward building your digital twin. Contact GDS today to schedule a consultation and learn how we can help advance your living digital asset.
