The BowTie as a Digital Twin: How a BowTie Looks Different from a Data Perspective
“This work follows from a research project for safety management system re-engineering that turned a safety BowTie into a digital twin. A digital twin is a model embedded in software that mirrors a specific aspect of a real system; the aspect in this case is the risk space associated with a process. The well-known BowTie is the model that turns out to be singularly well suited as a digital twin from the risk perspective as it maps out the risk space together with real-life controls. However, for a BowTie to be a high-fidelity digital twin of a real system, the rules and processes for designing and operating a BowTie are changed.”
by Paul Singh 1,*, Coen van Gulijk 1 and Neil Sunderland 2
1 School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield HD1 3DH, UK
2 Syngenta Huddersfield Manufacturing Centre, Huddersfield HD2 1GX, UK
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Safety2024, 10(2), 34; https://doi.org/10.3390/safety10020034
Submission received: 9 February 2024 / Revised: 19 March 2024 / Accepted: 25 March 2024 / Published: 31 March 2024
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Safety and Risk Management in Process Industries)