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Notes on the twin.

What we have learned about identity, lifecycle and knowledge for industrial assets that live for decades.

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Today we release TvennDB

TvennDB is the graph database made for industrial digital twins: a standalone database for the market, from Hubbiot AB. One engine holds the structure, history and meaning of every asset and scales out on Kubernetes. The first release ships as TvennDB Free, for amd64 and arm64, signed.

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Six questions an industrial twin should answer, and how TvennDB answers them

A hands on tour of TvennDB Free on a small plant: what stops when a robot stops, where a spare part is used and whether stock covers it, which machines are due for service, what changed and why, what the plant looked like before, and how to give a contractor or an AI assistant exactly the view they need. Every query runs as written.

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Why asset lifecycle data has no natural owner

Digital asset lifecycle initiatives in manufacturing industries struggle not because of technology, but because their organisations are vertically structured while the lifecycle of a product is inherently horizontal. No division naturally owns what crosses every boundary, and no reorganisation can close that gap. The Hubbiot platform is designed to sit across the verticals without belonging to any of them: Nexus for identity and lifecycle, Access for trust and governance, Knowledge for structured understanding.

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What digital twins in asset lifecycle management actually needs to get right

Most initiatives on digitalisation of asset lifecycle management do not fail because of technology. They fail because three foundational questions, 1) identity, 2) governance, and 3) knowledge, were never answered upfront. Hubbiot Platform addresses each one: Nexus for identity, data structure and lifecycle, Access for trust and governance, Knowledge for structured understanding. Together, they form the foundation for business-level digital twins that actually endure

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