Samenvatting

This report explores what the best way is to visualize the modelling workflow of a digital twin. The digital twin is a digital replica of a physical plant and can be beneficial for building, maintaining, operating and training. The visualization helps to convince parties such as the management department of a company, which often lacks engineering insights. In addition, this research revealed that visualizations are also ideal for debugging. It becomes possible to instantly examine mistakes, for example in the control system, from a visual perspective instead of going through many lines of code. In my particular case, data from the digital twin has been visualized in the gaming engine Unity. This data was sent from the digital twin to Unity via the XML-RPC protocol. Components that were applicable to be visualized were identified and combined as a Unity Package, including generic code and custom interfaces for the developer. This is beneficial for future projects and speeds up the process for the developer. During the phase of prototyping, it became clear that maintaining a clean overview is important. Throughout an iterative and incremental process, each component is generically designed. Multiple data sources can be plotted into a single graphical chart, and the method of interaction has evolved into a minimal effort approach for the end-user.