What enables a company to endure for centuries? In a single word: change. There was a time when our conversations centered on steam engines and electrical engineering; today, they revolve around artificial intelligence, automation, and industrial software. The key to remaining a technological pioneer across generations is to stay aligned with change itself and to develop the technologies that will shape the future today. Today, at this stage, I would like to emphasize Digital Twin technology, which enables the factories and products of tomorrow.
We must produce efficiently, flexibly, sustainably, and innovatively
Turkish industry is approaching a period in which global competition is accelerating at an unprecedented pace. The accelerating pace of climate change, rising geopolitical tensions, disruptions to supply chains, production, and services, the overwhelming speed of technological advancement, and intense competition… As these challenges grow and the pace of change quickens, businesses face a pressing need to become more efficient, sustainable, agile, innovative, and competitive. It is no longer sufficient simply to produce; we must produce efficiently, flexibly, sustainably, and innovatively. At this stage, Digital Twin technology is no longer just an engineering concept, but is becoming one of the key drivers of our economic growth
The “Digital Twin” approach is a model that mirrors the behaviour of a physical asset through real-time data and allows possible scenarios to be tested in a virtual environment. In this way, it helps accelerate decision-making processes for businesses. Digital twins that create exact digital replicas of infrastructures, buildings, physical facilities, machines, entire production processes, or individual products help increase operational efficiency while enabling sustainability, cost savings, and innovation.
The Digital Twin market will grow by 60% in the next five years
Industry leaders in product development are increasingly turning their attention to Digital Twin technology. According to McKinsey’s analysis, the global market for Digital Twin solutions is expected to grow by 60 percent annually over the next five years and reach 73.5 billion dollars by 2027.
When industrial artificial intelligence solutions are combined with digital twins, they enable high value-added applications such as predictive maintenance and intelligent optimization. Data from different applications shows that it is possible to reduce costs and shorten product development time from the design phase all the way to production. It also shows that we can predict machine failures weeks in advance and significantly reduce downtime and energy consumption.
The literature shows that digital-twin-supported predictive maintenance can reduce unplanned downtime by up to 45 percent and lower maintenance costs by 30 percent. Studies across different industries also report an average reduction of around 20 percent in downtime. Similarly, systematic research in the building sector reports savings potential of up to 30 percent with digital twins, along with significant improvements in O&M efficiency.
From global experience to local solutions
Digital Twin solutions are being used successfully across many industries around the world. Bringing this experience to Türkiye creates a digital transformation momentum not only for our industrial sector, but also for energy, transportation, agriculture, and construction. Digital Twin technology is not a vision of the future; it is a capability we already have today. We must take the steps that will carry Türkiye’s production strength into the future through Digital Twins and strengthen efficiency and sustainability. We know that digitalization has become not only a technological shift, but also the foundation of competitiveness and of economic and industrial transformation.
* The related news was published in Dünya Newspaper on September 17, 2025.
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