UK Digital Twin Centre opens in Belfast to drive nationwide industrial innovation

newelectronics.co.uk, May. 05, 2025 – 

The UK Digital Twin Centre has officially opened in Belfast, marking a major milestone in the UK’s digital innovation landscape.

Delivered by Digital Catapult and funded by the Belfast Region City Deal and Innovate UK, the project is set to support the transformation of industry by accelerating the adoption of digital twin technology across the UK’s critical sectors. 

A dynamic virtual representation (‘twin’) of a physical asset, process, or system, digital twins bridge the physical and digital worlds and can turn data into real-time insights that can optimise performance, reduce costs, and predict outcomes before they happen.

Since funding for the project was announced, the Digital Catapult has brought together industry and innovators to identify adoption barriers and strategic interventions.

At the centre’s opening, the project’s co-investing industry partners – Artemis Technologies, Spirit AeroSystems, and Thales UK – were able to utilise the facilities, including the 360-degree immersive space and advanced technology lab, to demonstrate how digital twins are helping to solve complex operational challenges.

These early-stage use cases emphasise the power of cross-sector collaboration to create scalable, practical solutions while building expertise that can be shared across industries, ultimately improving product design, building supply chain resilience, and decarbonising operations.

Programmes delivered by the UK Digital Twin Centre will help businesses across the UK to demystify, demonstrate, and deploy digital twins.

With expert support, test environments and tools to experiment and validate, combined with shared learnings from industry use cases, it offers a practical route to adoption.

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