The widely recognised definition of a digital twin was provided by Glaessegen and Stargel in 2012 as ‘an integrated multi-physics, multi-scale, probabilistic simulation of a complex product and uses the best available physical models, sensor updates, etc., to mirror the life of its corresponding twin’. Put simply it is a virtual model of a real-life object or place, linked through data feedback mechanisms in real-time. As such it is composed of three parts: the physical produ