The move by Microsoft and Siemens to converge the two leading languages used for creating and executing digital twin models into a single environment has ramifications for almost all industry sectors that involve design, simulation and testing. This includes mobile operators, since the promise of 5G to deliver on-demand and automatically provisioned enterprise services across multiple networks – tailored to specific scenarios requires simulation of real world environments accurately and quickly. Digital twins can increasingly enable the required capabilities with AI techniques coupled with advances in computational power. But this also calls for a common language to develop digital twin models around agreed interfaces and components or objects. An essential ingredient, often referred to metaphorically as nouns, are the object…