🎧 #041: Anand Mecheri on a toolkit for building Digital Twins

The Nexus Podcast

“I was very quickly disappointed once I realized there was a huge gap between the promise and the reality of BIM… The reality was that BIM was, is still largely used for drawing production, right? It's used for coordination, clash detection, and drawing production. "
–Anand Mecheri

My Highlights

• Anand’s past companies, all sold to Siemens (1:41)
• James’ favorite question (4:08)
• The problem and opportunity Anand saw in BIM (6:10)
• Deeper dive on Invicara (11:28)
• Rapid fire myth-busting on digital twins (15:22)
• Invicara today - Twinit.io, and enabling others to build their own solutions (26:47)
• The question of ontologies, and Invicara’s schema-less platform (37:21)
• Key differentiators: a complete kit of parts, a low-code platform for creating solutions, and more (41:49)
• Anand’s vision for the future (44:23)
• Asset owners’ role in unlocking industry change (49:12)

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