Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING
Volume 34, Issue 6, Pages 567-597Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/0951192X.2021.1911003
Keywords
Digital twin; smart manufacturing; industrial implementation; industry 4; 0; digital twin industrial architecture
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Recent advancements in digital technologies have led to a new manufacturing model where digital twins play a crucial role in monitoring and optimizing production processes. Efforts have been made to identify key functionalities, properties, and challenges for implementing digital twins in real factories, with a focus on practical industrial applications. This paper reviews and analyzes the principles, ideas, and technological solutions of digital twins for production processes, while also discussing future directions for further research.
Latest trends and developments in digital technologies have enabled a new manufacturing model. Digital systems can monitor, optimize and control processes by creating a virtual copy of the physical world and making decentralized decisions. This paradigm relies on the development of a digital counterpart, the Digital Twin, for each production resource taking part to the whole manufacturing process. Although real applications of Digital Twin may differ in technical and operational details, in the past years, a huge effort has been done in order to identify and define focal functionalities and properties, as well as main challenges for the practical implementation within real factories. This paper is intended to review and analyse principles, ideas and technological solutions of the Digital Twin vision for production processes focusing on the practical industrial implementation. The purpose of this document is therefore to summarize the current state-of-art on Digital Twin concepts, and to draw their up-to-date state for application and deployment in real industrial processes. Finally, future directions for further research are discussed.
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