Operational twins are about translation, not visualization
Most discussions about digital twins focus on visualization.
Dashboards. 3D models. Animations.
That misses the point.
Translation is the core function
An operational twin translates physical reality into:
- process intervals
- comparable states
- aligned sequences
The same physical process can be:
- explored interactively
- validated retrospectively
- automated safely
By changing the translation layer, not the underlying data.
Why this matters for scale
Without translation, history cannot be reused.
Without reuse, learning stalls.
Operational twins make learning cumulative instead of episodic.
