Monthly Webinar Accelerate Your Digital Twin Use Cases Xmpro Blueprints, Accelerators & Patterns
Description:
Welcome to XMPro's insightful monthly webinar series. In this edition, spearheaded by our expert, Gavin Green, we delve deep into the transformative world of digital twins, emphasizing the pivotal role of XMPro's Blueprints, Accelerators, and Patterns in driving digital transformation.
Key Takeaways:
Understanding Core Terminologies: We demystify essential terms, ensuring participants have a clear grasp of concepts like accelerators, patterns, and blueprints, foundational to digital twin technology. Harnessing the Power of XMPro Templates: By leveraging XMPro's innovative templates, businesses can achieve reduced deployment costs, seamless data integration, and a rapid time-to-value, propelling them ahead in the digital race. Widget Exploration in XMPro App Designer: A comprehensive walkthrough of both static and dynamic widgets, adaptable for diverse visual themes, enhancing user experience and interface design. Strategic Blueprint Implementation: We outline a meticulous step-by-step approach to importing blueprints, encompassing data streams, AI-driven recommendations, and application integrations, ensuring a seamless digital twin deployment. Community Contributions and Collaborations: Learn how to contribute to XMPro's ever-growing repository, fostering a collaborative digital twin community. Plus, gain direct access to a plethora of resources tailored for your needs. Interactive Q&A Segment: Engage with our experts during the Q&A session, addressing your pressing inquiries and providing actionable insights.
Stay Ahead with XMPro: Mark your calendars for our upcoming webinar, focusing on the cutting-edge topics of predictive maintenance and condition monitoring, pivotal in today's Industry 4.0 landscape.
For a deeper dive into digital twin technology, XMPro solutions, and to stay updated with industry best practices, connect with our dedicated team.
Keywords: Digital Twin Technology, XMPro Webinar, Digital Transformation, Industry 4.0, Predictive Maintenance, Condition Monitoring, Data Integration, AI Recommendations.
Transcript
hello everybody and welcome to today's
uh webinar my name is Gavin Green I look
after strategic solutions for for exm I
want to thank you all for attending
today uh if you have any questions uh
put them into the uh the chat uh I think
there's question section as well I'll
try and get to them at the end as we go
through it so in today's webinar what
we're going to go through is how to
accelerate your digital twin use cases
using our blueprints accelerators and
pattern as
well before we start though uh we just
need to make sure that we're aligned on
some of the terminology um make sure
that when we're talking um an
accelerator or pattern everyone's on the
same page um on the topic so to do that
U it's easier if I just open it up and
we just go through this so starting from
the bottom um each of these tends to
build on each other so patterns um on
the far right here we see these as
preconfigured data streams we also see
widgets and I'll explain what the
difference is when I go into that uh
form part of the patterns um on on the
right
here the
accelerators um that is typically a
Jupiter notebook from our AI or our
notebook section um it could also be one
or two pages um it could also be a set
of recommendation s with the data Stream
So it builds on the patterns just a
little bit more and then blueprints
blueprints you could see those as
pre-built Solutions so they're typically
around a specific use case um and they
will contain data streams
recommendations um some app
visualizations templates
Etc what are some of the benefits by by
using templates um why are we having
this discussion around blue accelerators
and patterns and what does it mean for
for me and and my organization uh for
for those watching
today so some of the key benefits uh for
this is lower cost of deployment you can
integrate your Silo data um using best
practices you're going to shorten your
time to Value um and that plays into the
next one as well which is improving your
internal personal productivity you don't
have to spend a lot of time working all
the intricate details and and bits some
pieces up you can use this as your
starting platform um and then just adapt
it and change it to your own
requirements as
well you can increase your return on
your value proposition again these all
tie into the shorten time to Value piece
of the top which is really U the key
thing here around all three of them it
doesn't matter if it's a pattern an
accelerator or a blueprint it really is
how do we do things a lot quicker um and
get to our end result a lot faster the
the last one is an
interesting you can get the domain
Knowledge from our partners as well as
ourselves around certain use cases again
you can import these adapt them change
them to your own requirements um but
just some of the benefits of using the
uh the templates
themselves when it comes to our suite of
um products which pieces do these touch
it's going to touch all four them it's
going to touch the data streams the AI
the app designer and also the
recommendation manager as well so it
touches all four of them as you see them
here coming back to my um Iceberg
analogy slide patterns you'll find right
down the bottom here the the patterns
are touching the uh the data stream side
so the DS data wrangling analytics
integration orchestration when we start
talking around the accelerators
accelerators will be touching the AI
piece they could be touching the
recommendation manager piece as well as
the data stream and then you have your
Blueprints and blueprints will go from
the top all the way down whether it's
the app designer recommendations AI or
data streams the notice down the bottom
there the subscription manager we don't
actually touch anything in the
subscription manager for all three of
them so pattern accelerators or or
blueprints the subscription manager is
just where you control your access to
the different pieces so remember when
you're importing and creating your your
different uh blueprints uh or even your
accelerators make sure you set up the
correct access for your team uh if you
want to share them either read access or
write access to them as well if you
don't do that no one else will be able
to use those different components as
well so let's dive into what is it that
we're actually looking at here and and
how do I get a hold of them
if I go into our documentation website
um on the far left you will see there is
a link which says blueprints
accelerators and patents what that will
do is that'll take you to a website this
website is hosted in GitHub itself and
you can see blueprints accelerators and
pattern if we start at the bottom and
work our way all the way to the Top If
we go to patterns it will list all the
different patterns that we have
published now publish these if you wish
to contribute I will have a link right
at the end which will walk us through
how to contribute um and make your own
patterns accelerators or blueprints
available here and you can merge them in
as well pattern is broken up into two
main sections um that I have available
here the AI these will be data streams
and then widgets which will be used in
the app
designer this is a constantly evolving
site as we have new um items added in
either of the three sections they will
be added to these Pages um and you'll be
able to access them as well if you click
the view details on any of them it'll
take you down into the actual component
itself so this is the asset monitoring
using binary classification across the
top you have your visuals so if you
click into those you can actually see
what they look like from the visual
perspective just clicking out of that
will'll close them on the left you will
see all the pages will have a set of
common items the one is going to be the
import password whenever you try and
import anything it doesn't matter if it
is a widget it doesn't matter if it's a
data stream recommendation or an app you
need an import password we use the same
password for all of these items just to
make it easier for people to integrate
um and and use these all you can do is
just double click and copy this
particular password Here
and then you can use it when you're
importing if you're looking for
instructions and how to import you can
click this particular link here it will
take you to our documentation site which
will list out the import export um and
all the different components from our
documentation S as well does not matter
if it's a data stream uh recommendation
Etc it's all on this particular site
here on how to import it'll walk you
through the different details um for
that as well and then lastly there'll be
a file section which will contain the
various components that you are going to
need this particular example has two
there's a SQL script and there's a data
stream if you go and open the script
you'll notice that it'll actually take
you to the uh repository at the back
which has the components that you need
to actually run it so in this example
this would be the SQL script so you can
just copy the actual text here run this
against your SQL environment go back and
now you can and open up the data stream
and again you can just download the
actual data stream to import it as
well it does not matter if this is a
full blueprint and I'll show you a few
examples on that as well it follows the
same principle here with regards to the
section on the left components in the
middle you'll see a table of contents
will allow you to jump around different
items that we're looking at the data
stream will just highlight what are some
of the items that are used used in the
data Stream So if you want to learn a
little bit more you want to get a bit
more comfortable with the particular
pattern in this example which of the
agents are we using and again each of
these will take you and allow you to
drill down into that
particular um documentation and you can
find out more information as as you want
to or or need to right at the bottom are
the typical steps to follow to import it
does not matter if this is again a
package an accelerator or a blueprint
you're going to follow the very similar
steps to import the key thing at the top
there though is making sure that you
have a set of variables defined these
variables are typically create created
when you're installing a site but again
it's just good to make sure that you
have them when you are importing so what
do I mean by by these variables you need
to have specific access and you'll
notice here on the left there is
variables I'm in the app designer right
now I just click the uh hamburger and I
click variables it'll open up the
variables for
me what we're looking for is to make
sure you have the app designer URL and
the app designer integration key you
will notice that there is an app
designer URL inside the app designer and
if we go into the data streams you will
find one in there as well just a
reminder variables are shared so if you
define it in the app designer it'll be
available in the data stream and vice
versa however you do need to apply your
variables in both systems the reason for
that is each of them is using a
different encryption key um specifically
when you are encrypting the values in
here so just keep that in mind when you
are actually creating or confirming the
variables that you set them in both
environments you'll see here in the app
designer I can go down and I can see my
integration key if I go into the data
stream you can see I've set them as well
if you have not set them how do you know
you can see all the items here which
have the Chevron next to them have not
been set in the app designer whereas in
the data stream designer they have been
set so that's how you can very quickly
tell have they' been configured or not
do you need to configure them in both
environments it depends on your use case
and how you're going to use these
particular
variables inside the app designer I'm
not going to be using the actual too or
the ml flow capabilities but inside my
data stream I am that's why they are
configured for me in
here so important across the top make
sure that you have these defined to be
able to use this um data stream in this
example you'll notice that we're talking
around SQL username password down here
the reason we are is a lot of the
accelerators and pattern um are set to
specific data sources that we have
defined now when you are actually
loading in these accelerators by just
open up this particular one that we are
looking at
here you will see in this data stream we
have two items one which is going to be
where's my data coming from but two
where is my context coming from if you
want to change your context you can U
just make sure that over here you
obviously creating the variables to
whatever system you are changing it to
when you load it in so step one is
really just confirming your variables
where are you going to be getting your
data from um to to be able to do
anything the app designer these two here
is required when you are trying to run a
recommendation using a recommendation
manager or you are looking to pass data
to our visuals that is why you've
defined the two of those if you do not
have that def you will not be able to
use these two agents on this particular
data stream
itself second run the SQL script so here
you will see the smart meter again if I
open that up in another window you will
see what it is you actually creating and
configuring again do you have to use
this um in your own environment no by
all means you can swap that piece out
and drag on another context Provider
from the library as you need to or want
to bring it
in second importing the data
stream so first thing that you would
need to do is make sure that you
download the data stream uh from this
particular environment here so you can
see here is the data stream um itself
the extension U uh Fu so here I can just
click the download and it'll download
the actual carile for me to be able to
use
all
next thing we want to import that
particular data string it follows the
same process um if you go into the data
streams you will see there is an import
option if you click that it's going to
ask you for a file key this file key is
this key that we've copied across the
top here which is the input password
again we use the same password for all
three sections just to make it a lot
easier for folks to to use so you just
put the key in there and now you can
actually please select the file to to uh
to
upload and now we can say upload what
this will do is it will check your site
as well and it'll do the same for
recommendations it'll do the same for
for apps um if it picks up that there is
already a version of that it's going to
ask you a question you want to import it
as a new version what you want to import
it is a completely new entity of that
then this one is a data stream so I'm
going to get the option there it'll do
the same for a recommendation it'll do
the same for an app as well if you want
to just say a new version uh it'll just
increment the version and create this
system new version even if that app
recommendation or data stream is
published it'll create a new version but
it's not going to take that version live
you still need to go in and edit it and
change it because this is a data stream
it's going to ask me where do I actually
want to uh run it and I can put it into
the correct collection make sure that
you are following the um the actual
blade itself it's going to ask you
different question depending on what it
is that you want to import for the
different areas if I go into my new data
stream I can give it a name put it in a
category but again I slap my collection
designation um as
well once we've imported that then it is
available for for our use and as I go
into this particular
example
you can now change and configure it so
next step once we've imported it assign
access to others as required again
applies to all the different areas um as
well you need to decide who else is
going to be using this uh with you
because this is the data stream we can
go into the manage access and make sure
you're giving access to the correct
people also Define what type of access
you want to give them you want to give
them read access write access or coowner
access uh to it as well read access will
just allow you to view the co components
and content right will allow you to edit
and co-owner access will typically allow
you to change other people's access
rights to it as well if you have read
access to items you cannot publish or
unpublish uh that component whether it
is a data stream whether it's a
recommendation or whether it's an actual
app itself all you can do is edit and by
edit I mean you can go in and configure
and see what the items are you can make
changes to it it'll give you the little
ascts that will ask you to say but as
soon as you try and save it'll tell you
you do not have access to that and you
will not be able to save it um as
well
important have a look at the different
components that you and this is
specifically important with regards to
the the data streams themselves when
you're importing them you need to make
sure that you double click anything that
that is a exm Pro app and it's correctly
configured to use the URL and the key
the same for the recommendation make
sure that it is correctly set up to use
the uh the key and the uh the URL as
well what you also need to do is make
sure that your context provider is
pointing to whatever data source it is
that you've defined this one is pointing
to the SQL um because we've loaded the
SQL um across the top into there as well
so you need to make sure that that's
been defined as well the recommendation
make sure it's pointing to the correct
URL key just click apply save um and
that should be all you need to do the
entity items um the different components
down here you don't need to remap those
or reset those all you really need to do
is just make sure that your connection
properties are set typically your URL in
your key if I come into the SQL again
make sure that it's pointing to the
correct instances here making sure it's
your correct database your correct and
it'll automatically start filling in the
rest of the items for you as
well and then right at the bottom just
clicking apply publish and ensure that
you are getting data coming through for
for all of these but once you've
configured everything and it is ready to
go make sure you hit publish go to the
live view um and
typically pick the uh the item before
the Run recommendation as well as the
the app so here you'll see predict is
the the item coming out the AI post
elemetry is coming out of the action
agent depending on the data stream that
you've configured it'll take a bit um
just to run this one's running a
predictive model loading a lot of data
and contextual data so it'll take a
little bit of time to come through make
sure you've got the data flowing through
this particular section here before you
continue onwards I.E going in loading an
app loading a recommendation
Etc you can see the data is coming
through now across the top which means
we've configured this correctly and we
can either leave it running um and
continue on to the next step or we can
unpublish it depending on what the use
case for this item
is
accelerators if I go into into the top
we'll tend to build on patterns but
before we go into accelerators there's
this another area on P which is around
widgets now what a widget is is it is
into the realm of the app designer and
it really is how do I create individual
components that I don't have to spend a
lot of time trying to move everything
Pixel Perfect uh for it so what we've
done here is we've curated a list of a
lot of different widgets that we tend to
reuse over and over again just to make
it quicker and easier for folks to
actually use inside the app designer
again it's going to follow the same
principle across the top you will have
your um visuals these visuals here you
will see uh this is what the actual run
space will look like there is the
configure space um as well because this
is inside the app designer there's two
themes there's a light theme and a dark
theme on the left you have your same
thing which is importing the password as
well as a file as well as a widget so if
I open up that particular widget you'll
see it will take me again back into the
uh GitHub repo and it'll allow me to
download those particular um files
themselves so where are these uh widgets
and and how do I use them inside the app
designer if I go into a particular
application so I'm going to go into my
one example here if you go into the edit
mode as if you were configuring a
particular app
itself on this particular area here here
you'll see under blocks on the left
there's a widget section you have two
icons here which will allow you to
export a widget or import a widget if
you tell it you want to
import it's going to ask you for a key
this is the same key that we've got
across the top that is what we're
interested in so you paste the key there
and then you upload the actual widget
file itself that you are interested in
all of the widgets have a file that will
allow you to import that particular
widget so the depending on what it is
that you are looking to actually use and
reuse in your applications you just load
the appropriate widget for that where
the widgets actually appear is if you
expand
the the accordion you'll see all your
widgets will appear here as
well if I drag one on you will notice
that it will drag the item in for me as
well most of the widgets that we
configure will be from a Content card
perspective so you'll see here we have
card and here is a Content card that
will actually drag it in if I drag in
the other one you'll see this one is
dynamic and this one is
static why do we have two of these items
depending on your use case the one on
the right here means I have a static
view it's not going to change um I'm
only going to have so many columns you
can now come in and change as you want
to or need to so if you are not
interested in having all the columns you
can come in and actually remove a column
now I've only got three
columns each of these if you click on an
item and go to page layers you will
notice that there is typically a data
source that's been defined in the page
layer themselves so if I click the data
source it will allow me to bind this to
a particular data source itself so here
I can go into the page data create
myself a u data source typically
pointing to a data stream and if I go to
the block properties I can actually bind
this this particular data source um to
it and now I can come in and start
binding as I would normally the actual
text to any of the properties coming in
from that particular data source
itself all the widgets function in a
very similar faction where anything that
has data sources will allow you to map
them and move them as well again this is
a static this one's a little bit more
Dynamic what that means is you'll notice
this section here we've only to find one
the data source is going to dictate how
many columns it's actually going to be
creating for me and you'll find this
pattern follows through in a lot of the
actual widgets themselves there will
typically be a static one but there will
also be a dynamic one whether it's
columns or rows which will allow you to
grow um the actual um app pieces itself
if I click in here and go to the page
layers you'll see there is the total
data source and there is the child data
source so this is typically where you
would put the data source um itself and
then you just map the items and then
it'll configure everything for you I
mentioned two themes the widgets unless
otherwise specified will function in
both themes themselves so if I go into
the dark theme and I drag these two
widgets in as well you will notice that
they will be colored appropriately um
and they will match that particular
theme itself so if I go and actually
launch this you can see there are my um
items if I go to my live theme there are
my items as well because I bound this
one to the data source you will notice
that it's actually going to duplicate
the items so let's go in there let's
remove the data source for the uh the
moment and we can then have a look
at how this is actually rendering so
this is what it would look like in the
live theme this is what it would look
like in the dark
I didn't have to change anything um I
didn't have to edit anything I can just
drag them on use them and configure them
as I need to and that follows the same
for pretty much all the widgets um in
here and there's a lot of different
widgets um in here um this list is
constantly being added to we're
constantly growing it um if you have
something that you feel You' like to put
in here by all means send it to send it
in or contribute it um as well um to
this particular list the last it I'll
touch on is blueprints so inside
blueprints we're building on the other
two um items themselves so pattern
typically you have your um data streams
and widgets inside accelerators you will
see here these are typically onepage
apps so this one here would be um I've
just got a visual which is just showing
me 3D items and how do I bind them to a
Unity view so there is an app over here
and there is a data stream again it'll
walk you through what are some of the
key pieces in it but the steps you'll
notice is very similar to what we've uh
just gone through with the the patent
confirming your variables importing what
you need to do importing the application
um and then just running it from from
there inside the accelerators there is
an AI section as well so here if I open
this up we'll load the um quick start
guide or um our Jupiter notebooks or our
notebooks ourselves any of the other U
notebooks that we make available will
appear in here as well and we'll
function under the
accelerator coming into blueprints
you'll notice they just keep building on
each other here so the blueprints
themselves if I go into a particular
example in here across the top you have
your visuals again you can click through
that and see what all the different
components are in that um blueprint
itself on the left you just just have a
lot more items to
import you still got the same
instruction you still have the same
password here you have your application
and template there are the
recommendations data stream and any um
data scripts that are needed same
principle applies here when you are
importing your data streams you can
adjust and change where your data is
coming from you can also adjust and
change your recommendations so if the
thresholds are not to your liking change
and adjust them as well you'll see same
pattern make sure your variables are
defined running any of your scripts U
that need to be run there is a sequence
to importing a
blueprint um typically you will import
your data streams then you'll import
your
recommendations uh there are times when
you may be importing a second data
stream in between the two especially if
it's working on a recommendation that
will be called out in the actual steps
themselves and then last you'll import
your application for it when you're
importing your application you'll notice
down here it'll call out specific steps
that you need to do this is when you're
linking to
recommendations um and where you need to
do that the reason for doing application
last is if you were to do application
first one of the options on an import is
going to ask you to bind it to the
different data streams if you've not
imported those data streams left you can
leave it blank but you're going to have
to go and manually set that up
afterwards that's why the application is
typically lost because you already
imported your data streams you've
imported your recommendations and you
should just be able to match everything
when you import it it makes the
experience a lot quicker and a lot more
pleasant when you are loading those
in if we come back to to the items um
that we've got here again there's three
areas that typically build on top of
each other patents accelerators and and
blueprints so how do I contribute and
where do I get access uh to these so for
contributions um the link across the top
that QR code will take you straight to
that particular link itself or for
direct access you can click that link at
the bottom as well um if you don't want
to remember those particular links what
you can do is just go to our
documentation website documentation.
xo.com click the uh the link on the left
and it'll take you to that website as
well perfect um while I keep this up
here let's see if we've got any
questions from from anyone on the
audience we do okay so the one question
here is is around contrib okay so if you
want to contribute there's two ways you
can contribute um to it uh if you're not
comfortable loading them into the
repository or where to put it or how to
style it by all means you can send it to
us whether it's a pattern an accelerator
or blueprint what we'll do is um load it
ourselves and give you the um correct
attributes as to where it came from to
to load it in there if you are more
comfortable uh what you can do is you
can Fork the repository uh check it in
and then we can actually merge that in
uh once it's been rated and checked and
then it'll be available for everyone
else to to load in as
well next steps uh just before we wrap
up here um to remember to to register
for next month's webinar again there's
two options for it um here we'll be
hosting a a hoty Q&A session around
predictive maintenance and continue uh
condition monitoring as well any
questions you can reach out to our um or
our team for more information and again
thank you all for attending today have a
great rest of uh rest of your day
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