Orlando: Advancing the Future of Manufacturing through Digital Twins
- April 5, 2019
- Posted by: Chase Gregory
- Category: Emerging Technology

BRIDG is a microelectronics research company based in Orlando, Florida, that has set out to revolutionize the manufacturing industry. The company’s gleaming 109,000-square-foot facility, located just 30 minutes from downtown Orlando, has enormous clean rooms and complex equipment for fabricating silicon wafers. On these wafers are printed microchips that enable the complex modern electronics we rely on daily, from smartphones to aircraft guidance systems.
Building chips on wafers is a complex and costly process, but BRIDG has found an innovative solution that has the potential to transform manufacturing as we know it. The company relies on complete digital replicas, or “digital twins,” of both physical chip components and the manufacturing process used to make them.
BRIDG is among the first companies in the semiconductor industry to use this technology. By using a simulated digital model of everything from chip design to production processes, BRIDG can adjust and tweak digitally before prototyping even begins. This approach reduces the need for costly trial and error in the real world, saving time