Vital for human life, water powers the global economy and is essential for manufacturing, energy production and more. However, despite covering almost seven-tenths of the Earth, only 1% of the water volume on our planet is readily available for human use and much of that is wasted.
As climate change contributes to increasing the scarcity of our natural resources, finding more efficient ways to consume water is an urgent task. To respond to these challenges, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform from Dassault Systèmes offers resources dedicated to simplifying the path for companies, governments and society to reshape their processes and optimize water consumption.
With the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, companies can create Virtual Twins of their facilities, creating complete virtual replicas prepared to simulate all the specific aspects and characteristics of their projects, plants, pipelines, irrigation systems and more.
A Virtual Twin is a real-time computerized representation of a product, process or system, which can be as simple as a plastic bottle or as complex as an entire city. Simulations run on this 3D model that represents the shape, dimensions and properties of a product, process, or system to explore how they will behave when assembled, operated or subjected to a series of events.
These software-based models can show how water has been used more efficiently.
Through data analysis, AI, 3D modeling and real-time visualization features, Virtual Twins enable tracking the water footprint of products and services from design to manufacturing and the implications at the end of the product life cycle. It means an option to evaluate in detail so-called virtual water, which is the amount of water required for the production process.
A cup of coffee, for example, may represent only a few milliliters of water in its final form. But, adding up the total used for growing the beans, packaging and transportation, that amount can reach 140 liters. Manufacturing also depends on water resources: Making a car can require up to 150,000 liters of water, for example.
Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform addresses these issues by offering digital simulations that leverage the ability of experts, companies and universities to understand their innovation process.
Virtual Twins allow for reducing costs, improving the quantification of consumption and even analyzing possible areas of improvement, which optimize the reality of factories and farms, for example.
Ultimately, this benefit is passed on to consumers, as companies can offer goods and services designed, manufactured and transported using less water.
Dassault Systèmes’ willingness to be part of the response to how to tackle the world’s water consumption challenge goes beyond providing cutting-edge knowledge through its 3DEXPERIENCE platform to enable the industry to consume smarter and protect the world’s most precious resource.
A few months ago, the company presented the Water for Life initiative: A campaign to raise awareness about current social and environmental challenges, inspiring people to use the virtual world to gain deeper insights into these challenges and drive sustainable innovations for a better future.
This commitment to improving global awareness of sustainable challenges is also visible in 3DEXPERIENCE Edu, Dassault Systèmes’ worldwide education programs, available to five million students and professionals per year.
Click below to share this article