BRAINCUBE

Digital Twins
Uncover actionable improvements for better operational effectiveness.

Digital Twins powered by Braincube offer process experts and data scientists the
information they need to improve production. Digital Twins harmonize raw, siloed data
from different machines, processes, and systems into usable (and continuously updated)
data for business optimization.

What is a Braincube-powered Digital Twin?

A Digital Twin is a digital replica of any production
outcome that encompasses and contextualizes all
necessary data sources for improved traceability
performance, quality, and sustainability. This digital
representation encompasses, contextualizes, and
links all relevant IT/OT data to the final product.
Digital Twins automate data pulling, cleaning,
transforming, and the structuration of data, which
saves teams valuable time and energy. They are
continuously updated with real-time conditions,
making it possible to leverage applications specific
to different business objectives.

Braincube follows a genealogical approach. Our

In short, Digital Twins make it easy to turn data
Digital Twins follow the flow of materials, account
into information. As a result, teams can drastically
for lag time, weather, and other variables, and build
improve yield, margins, and efficiencies while
time-based association where appropriate. This
simultaneously reducing scrap, waste, energy, and
gives teams a unique view into the conditions that
other manufacturing costs.
went into making each product, batch, or part.

WHAT IS BRAINCUBE?
Braincube is a Smart IIoT platform offering Digital Twins and an advanced
app suite that helps manufacturers become more efficient. Our user-
friendly apps empower everyone at your company to discover instant
and long-term value from real-time Edge data and Big Data analytics.
Continuously contextualized and structured data—whether on-prem
or in the cloud—puts the right information in your hands to optimize
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Digital Twins built for
purpose and context
Braincube builds fit for purpose, contextualized
Digital Twins. Once built, Digital Twins can be
used to uncover actionable insights, such as:
• How to manufacture your best product at the
lowest cost
• What settings you should use to optimize
equipment, improve sustainability, quality,
yield, etc.
• What variation occurred during production,
what is the root cause, and how to reduce
future variation
• Enhanced real-time condition monitoring and
predictive maintenance strategies
• Accurate descriptive analytics
Braincube-built Digital
Twins encapsulate the exact
manufacturing conditions
for each finished product
you make.
Why do I need a Digital
Twin?
Braincube Digital Twins help manufacturers
save time, improve efficiency, and fast-track
continuous improvement efforts. They serve
as the gateway to self-service analytics, data
visualization, custom data science models, and
other application use cases.
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Digital Twins provide teams with an accurate,
real-time, harmonized dataset to accelerate your
business optimization. This data set can then be
used across your data architecture.
Democratizing access to usable data makes your
teams more efficient, focused, and collaborative,
giving your company a competitive edge.
Augmenting the tedious work of pulling, cleaning,
and contextualizing data from different systems
and formats ensures that ready-to-use dynamic
data is centered around business optimization.
Optimized for use in
applications
The Braincube product suite simplifies your digital
transformation and improves business results. From
real-time condition monitoring to AI advanced
analytics, Braincube helps you harness the power of
data transformed into information.
Digital Twin data can be used in applications to:
• Optimize production process and margins
• Improve performance and quality
• Find new revenue streams
• Reduce cost, waste, and energy consumption for
sustainability initiatives
• Personalize products
• Test operating conditions and run simulations
• Perform predictive maintenance
• Uncover root causes and new opportunities
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BRAINCUBE DIGITAL TWIN: USE CASES

Digital Twins can be built for:

Assets Process
Business Objective Business Objective
Equipment optimization and ideal Optimizing a process for ideal
utilization for performance, quality, performance, quality and
energy consumption, and more sustainability.

Use Case Use Case

Reducing boiler energy Determining the root cause of
consumption while maintaining unplanned machine stops within
steam output the assembly process

Products
Business Objective
Understanding and optimizing the
entire production of specific
products.

Use Case
Solving variability on an entire
product line by drawing correlations
between input parameters and
determined outputs
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How are Digital Twins Our build process structures and links data by each
product, time period (e.g. 10 minutes of finished
created? product equivalent), batch (e.g. a mass production
batch of 200 pens), run, or any other interval
OUR UNIQUE APPROACH relevant to your production. The objective is to build
Braincube builds Digital Twins based on business Digital Twins focused on how a product was made.
optimization and context. We start by understanding: This approach allows you to associate your key

• What is your company trying to solve input variables with their impact on your final
or achieve? product. It encompasses lag time, weather data,
IT/OT data, and more. As a result, you can see full
• What data do you have and who will traceability, and variation in production from raw
use the data? materials to finished goods. By following the flow
of materials, continuously or as they separate and
rejoin, our Digital Twins give you a 360-degree view
into every variable in your process.

DATA OPTIMIZATION WITH BRAINCUBE DIGITAL TWINS

Self-Service AI/Machine Process Root-Cause

Analytics Learning Optimization Analysis

Use data in Braincube CrossRank is Use Advanced Use Braincube’s

Apps or third party Braincube’s Analysis App from automated alerting,
system for: algorithm that: Braincube to: SPC/Control Charts,
and more to:
• Descriptive • Crunches Big Data • Identify ideal set
analytics in minutes points and/or
• Troubleshoot and
ranges
inform predictive
• Predictions • Score the impact
maintenance
of an input data • Push ranges
strategy with
• Prescriptions to an output data, live, adapting to
easy RCA.
using probabilistic current conditions
• No-code/low- approach
• Improve
code dashboard • Understand
product quality
• Uses historical and sources of KIVs
and machine
real-time data on KOVs and how
performance
to optimize

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Industry experts that build

with you
Our team of industry and data experts will help
you identify the Digital Twin corresponding to your
needs. Are you looking to improve quality? Reduce
HOW WE BUILD YOUR
cost? Optimize process? Feed a model? All of the
above?
DIGITAL TWIN

The scope of your use case determines layers of

complexity within the digital model. It’s always
possible to add and update your model over time.
Once done, you can leverage this database in
enhanced applications, data science models, or
even third-party systems.
You may not need comprehensive Digital Twins
representing your entire manufacturing thread.
Depending on your use case, you may only need
a Digital Twin that collects, aggregates, and
contextualizes two data sets.
Build the digital mirror / data map
of the manufacturing thread:
a dedicated team evaluates and
builds the data transformation map
corresponding to your Digital Twin
objective(s). Your data transformation
map builds the appropriate flow, lag,
and key inputs to digitally replicate
real-world interactions.

For example, if you want to improve an asset’s

performance, you won’t need to build a Digital Twin
of the whole manufacturing thread. The Digital Twin
is built the same way, but this way you can keep
your Digital Twin as simple as possible to answer
your business needs.
Collect, transform and centralize the
data from all relevant data sources:
Braincube’s team will set automatic
extraction from all necessary systems
(ERP, Historian, PLCs, etc.)

DIGITIAL TWIN USE CASES

The data map is continuously fed
Get a get a better understanding of how
with data from production. This
Braincube’s Digital Twin helps achieve
ensures that structured, contextualized
various business objectives.
information is available in an accessible
database
See our use cases

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Steps of curating IoT data into insights

Step 1: Step 2: Step 3:

Acquisition Contextualization Business Intelligence

Data Raw Cleaning Linking IoT and Contextualized

Sources endpoint IoT data manufacturing data
data data

Increase in value

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Customer Benefits
• Save time with easy access to your production
data, organized in a meaningful structure
• Make better production decisions adapted to
real-time conditions by tracking, predicting, or
influencing the behavior and settings of physical
assets or processes
• Digital Twins act as an enabler, giving technical
and non-technical teams access to a perfect data
set for various needs
• Accelerate go-to-market objectives: run digital
tests before changing anything on the real-life
production conditions
• Leverage continuous real-time analytics with
current and historical data to optimize resources,
people, equipment, and materials
Features
Digital Twin data is simplified into
a usable format, bringing data and
information across the production
process. This saves time, resources,
and upskilling.
Automatically up-to-date data means
teams have what they need to work
with present conditions, historical
information, or build future predictions
Flexible: able to evolve in an adaptive,
emergent way as requirements change
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• Continuous value and efficiency through a one-
time base build that can be easily updated and
maintained for a simplified data modeling and
governance approach
• Instant scalability: the Digital Twin logic (and
data associated with the entity) can be used
multiple times across the manufacturing thread
once implemented
• Reduces the work needed to maintain and
enhance applications and physical things by
offering a continuously-updated database that is
interoperable in any system
• Improve security with robust privacy settings
and control to monitor and manage your
information
Digital Twin data is readily available
in any digital environment, making it
easy to use across your entire data
architecture.
Enables a whole new world of advanced
application opportunities and reduces
the number of connections.
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Why We’re Different

A Single Hub to Access and Continuous Structurization Empower Your Employees

Use Production Data
Operate at peak performance by
leveraging your streaming data
to take immediate action and
your historical data to accelerate
continuous improvement.
Our solutions are flexible. Whether
you are looking for Edge, Cloud
or a Hybrid offer, our software
was designed by manufacturers
for manufacturers with your ideal
deployment: on prem or in a
private or public cloud.
with Process Digital Twin
Find efficiency opportunities, cost
savings, test changes without
wasting resources or track your
entire process using your Digital
Twin from Braincube.
This dynamic replica lags all of
your production variables and
instantly identifies the most
impactful variables in your process
and prescribes how you can best
leverage new optimizations with
AI and Machine Learning.
with Autonomous Factories
Braincube continuously adapts
to environment and process
variability, giving you a continuous
look into every step of your
production process—so your team
spends more time focused on
improving operations, and less time
wrangling data.
C-Suite, process engineers, operators
and data scientists can use advanced
apps that simplify data visualization,
Big Data mining, complex third-party
integrations and more.

About Braincube
Braincube is an IIoT platform suite with business and expert apps designed for
industry. Founded by Laurent Laporte, Hélène Olphe-Galliard, and Sylvain Rubat
du Mérac in 2007, Braincube has paved the way for artificial intelligence in the $8.5 BILLION
industrial world for more than a decade. Saved by Braincube users’
Braincube’s platform and off-the-shelf apps empower manufacturers to find production lines in the last
instant and long-term value from data streams and Big Data analytics. Its 10 years
operating software provides immediate visibility into live conditions via Edge
and provides a hub of analysis apps via Cloud to better optimize performance. 50,000+
Braincube users
Combine Edge and Cloud to get the best results from your IIoT platform: adjust
to real-time recommendations and improve future performance. Choose from
a robust app store to help you achieve your context-specific goals whether
250+
you are striving for continuous improvement and higher productivity, cost- Manufacturing companies
reduction via Machine Learning, asset monitoring and predictive maintenance using Braincube in their
strategies, or visualization with charts, tables, and dashboards. factories

Braincube provides a one-stop-shop to take control of your data and transform 2,000+
your operations.
Production lines running
Braincube across 30 countries

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