A New Concept of Digital Twin Supporting Optimization and Resilience of Factories of the Future

In the context of Industry 4.0, a growing use is being made of simulation-based decision-support tools commonly named Digital Twins. Digital Twins are replicas of the physical manufacturing assets, providing means for the monitoring and control of individual assets. Although extensive research on Di...

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Published in:Applied sciences 2020-07, Vol.10 (13)
Main Authors: Becue, Adrien, Maia, Eva, Feeken, Linda, Borchers, Philipp, Praca, Isabel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Combinatorial optimization
Decision support systems
Innovations
Manufacturing industry
Methods
Production management
Redundancy (Engineering)
Technology application
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Summary:In the context of Industry 4.0, a growing use is being made of simulation-based decision-support tools commonly named Digital Twins. Digital Twins are replicas of the physical manufacturing assets, providing means for the monitoring and control of individual assets. Although extensive research on Digital Twins and their applications has been carried out, the majority of existing approaches are asset specific. Little consideration is made of human factors and interdependencies between different production assets are commonly ignored. In this paper, we address those limitations and propose innovations for cognitive modeling and co-simulation which may unleash novel uses of Digital Twins in Factories of the Future. We introduce a holistic Digital Twin approach, in which the factory is not represented by a set of separated Digital Twins but by a comprehensive modeling and simulation capacity embracing the full manufacturing process including external network dependencies. Furthermore, we introduce novel approaches for integrating models of human behavior and capacities for security testing with Digital Twins and show how the holistic Digital Twin can enable new services for the optimization and resilience of Factories of the Future. To illustrate this approach, we introduce a specific use-case implemented in field of Aerospace System Manufacturing. Keywords: Factory of the Future; Digital Twin; Cyber-Range; process optimization; cyber-resilience; modeling and simulation; cyber-physical system modeling; human behavior modeling; co-simulation; anomaly detection; attack detection
ISSN:2076-3417
2076-3417
DOI:10.3390/appl0134482