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Digital Twin helps deliver improved product quality, better insight into goods' performance in real-time applications, better supply, and more efficient distribution chains. A digital twin creates a virtual representation of a process, system, service, product, or other physical thing using virtual and augmented reality and 3D graphics and data modeling. This digital twin is a carbon copy of the physical universe. Its identical replica status is kept up to current with real-time updates. It is a technology that uses a variety of contexts, including product monitoring in use and throughout the product life cycle. To begin, a digital twin enables real-time monitoring of a manufacturing component, asset, system, or process. It helps to monitor better This improved monitoring capability provides a more in-depth understanding of what is happening on your production lines and throughout the manufacturing process. You can also utilize the digital twin to discover problems before they exist and anticipate future outcomes using machine learning and advice from professional engineers. These predictions contain both results within present parameters and if those parameters change. Helps at various manufacturing levels Component level - concentrated on a single, essential component of the manufacturing process. A digital twin of a single piece of equipment within a production line is created at the asset level. A digital twin is used to monitor and improve an entire production line at the system level. Finally, the process level examines the manufacturing process, from product and process design to manufacturing and production. It also relates to the distribution and usage of the finished product by customers/patients over its whole life cycle and future product development. Provides virtual assistance Having a digital twin allows for virtual troubleshooting and support, avoiding the physical constraints of having professional engineers present at your location. This technology can also serve as the foundation for customer-interactive dynamic supply chains. It helps engineers to predict based on the result Using virtual tools, engineers can use digital twins to look at, investigate, and evaluate existing assets, processes, and systems. With this ability, you can see what is happening right now and what will happen in the future. ...Read more

Chris Cooper will be responsible for aligning regional business strategies to drive Neste US's strategic growth goals in his new role. "The US presents important opportunities for our growth strategy in sales and trading, renewable feedstock supply and production, and we want to further strengthen our position in the country. I am very happy to appoint Chris to lead the fast growing US organisation and to further accelerate our renewables' growth strategy execution in the market," states Neste's President and CEO, Matti Lehmus. Chris Cooper has been appointed Neste US President. In his position, he is responsible for supporting and coordinating regional business initiatives to achieve strategic growth objectives. He is Neste's key representative in the US external community. Chris currently serves as the Vice President of Americas at Neste Renewable Aviation. "I am excited about Neste's purpose of creating a healthier planet for our children. Neste has high ambition to provide its customers sustainable solutions for decarbonizing transportation and for replacing the crude oil based fossil feedstock with renewable solutions," comments Chris Cooper, President of Neste US. "I am very much looking forward to working with our Neste people in US, and I am eager to continue cooperating not only with aviation customers, but with all US based forerunner partners and companies, and to support our renewable production platform including raw material sourcing to drive the change for a more sustainable future," adds Cooper. Check Out This : Transportation Review  The regional headquarters of Neste in North America is located in Houston, Texas, and the company employs over 500 individuals around the United States. Mahoney Environmental is a top collector and recycler of spent cooking oil, while Agri Trading is one of the largest independent renewable waste and residue fat and oil traders in the United States. Neste wholly owns both companies. ...Read more

The oceans make up 71 per cent of the earth’s surface and provide many amenities to human society, from generating the oxygen essential for breathing to mitigating weather extremes, from storing the excess carbon dioxide generated to produce food. The rapid oceanic changes exceed the present understanding of the variety of biochemical processes occurring in the oceans. The speakers in the sixth Lisbon dialogue stressed the fact that comprehending oceans is a precursor to the preservation and protection of oceans.      Vladimir Ryabinin, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO’s) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission proposed, “We need to move from science to action.” He mentioned coastal zone management, the establishment of marine protected areas, maritime planning, and the management of aquaculture as among the various “friendly” ways to take on this charge. He also referred to the High-Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy which is an initiative among 16 world leaders. This panel committed to managing the exclusive economic zones by 2025.  Jane Lubchenco, Deputy Director for Climate and the Environment, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said “The world needs science to save itself from fantasy. Science helps Governments, businesses and people understand the consequences of the choices they make. It does all of this only if we listen to science, science that is seen as credible, and uses it.” According to her, twenty-one per cent or one-fifth of the total carbon emission cuts needed to hold global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius could come from the oceans. The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report reflected an “alarming” statement that all ways that limit future global warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius require carbon dioxide removal, on land and in the oceans. To date, oceans have absorbed 90 per cent of excess heat from greenhouse gases and 25 per cent of the carbon. It is vital to consider oceans as the hero in mitigating climate crises and saving the planet, instead of considering them as the victims. ...Read more