🎙 About The Episode
At another episode of Realize Live 2025 in Amsterdam, we speak with Charilaos (Haris) Kokkinos, Technical Manager at FEAC Engineering, a company specializing in numerical simulations, digital twins, and advanced digitalization technologies. FEAC collaborates closely with the Siemens Simcenter portfolio, delivering high-fidelity simulations and real-time digital twin solutions across aerospace, defense, naval, and industrial applications.
In this episode, Haris breaks down what a true digital twin really is - beyond buzzwords, beyond AR/VR, and beyond simple sensor data. He reveals why digital twins require physics-based simulations, sensor integration, and AI-driven reduced-order models working together to enable real-time, real-world predictive behavior.
🔍 We also talk about:
- Why there’s no single definition of a digital twin — and why everyone is “right”
- How FEAC built a digital twin for a naval vessel using CFD, structural analysis & sensor fusion
- How AI, reduced-order models, and PINNs accelerate simulation workflows
- Why engineers today need to understand both physics and data
- How the job of an engineer has evolved over the last decade
- What FEAC looks for when hiring engineers (hint: it’s not just degrees)
- Why Siemens tools like Simcenter 3D, STAR-CCM+, Amesim & Mendix enable FEAC’s workflows
- Why teamwork beats individual specialization in modern engineering organizations
This is a deep, practical, and candid conversation about the realities of modern simulation, digital manufacturing, and how AI is reshaping engineering (without the hype!).
Connect with Haris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charilaos-haris-kokkinos-7601b419/
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