From Idea to Reality – Creating Value with Digital Twins Across the Entire Life Cycle

Christian Kehrer, Director, Account Technical Team at Altair presents at the 2025 ATCx Digital Twin conference.

Digital twins are changing how we develop, operate and optimize products. They not only enable more precise predictions, but also faster decisions - with measurable business benefits.

Using specific examples from various industrial sectors, we will show how the interaction of the key technologies of simulation, AI and data analysis provides the basis for sustainable efficiency and innovation along the entire product life cycle.

These include increasing the efficiency of a thermal system by +20% and, augmenting a real-time training simulator with accurate soil models as well as reducing scrap parts by -15% in sheet metal forming or slashing commissioning times of an industrial robot from days to hours.