Use failure-mode thinking to decide what a digital-twin alert deserves next.
Alert triage A valve twin flags rising stiction risk before a sterilization cycle. The line is running, maintenance is overloaded, and a stuck valve could scrap a $96K batch. Past false positives create pressure to ignore the alert, but FMEA asks you to compare severity, occurrence evidence, detectability, and controls before deciding. FMEA lens Failure mode -> effect -> evidence -> control Do not ask, "Do we trust the twin?" Ask what failure it is warning about, what the effect would be, how credible the evidence is, and what proportionate control reduces risk. Shortcut Treat alert as either true or…
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