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Digital twin as enabler for an innovative digital shopfloor management system in the ESB Logistics Learning Factory at Reutlingen University

  • Technologies for mapping the “digital twin“ have been under development for approximately 20 years. Nowadays increasingly intelligent, individualized products encourages companies to respond innovatively to customer requirements and to handle the rising product variations quickly. An integrated engineering network, spanning across the entire value chain, is operated to intelligently connect various company divisions, and to generate a business ecosystem for products, services and communities. The conditions for the digital twin are thereby determined in which the digital world can be fed into the real, and the real world back into the digital to deal such intelligent products with rising variations. The term digital twin can be described as a digital copy of a real factory, machine, worker etc., that is created and can be independently expanded, automatically updated as well as being globally available in real time. Every real product and production site is permanently accompanied by a digital twin. First prototypes of such digital twins already exist in the ESB Logistics Learning Factory on a cloud- and app based software that builds on a dynamic, multidimensional data and information model. A standardized language of the robot control systems via software agents and positioning systems has to be integrated. The aspect of the continuity of the real factory in the digital factory as an economical means of ensuring continuous actuality of digital models looks as the basis of changeability. For the indoor localization sensor combinations that in addition to the hardware already contain the software required for the sensor data fusion should be used. Processing systems, scenario-live-simulations and digital shop floor management results in a mandatory procedural combination. Essential to the digital twin is the ability to consistently provide all subsystems with the latest state of all required information, methods and algorithms.

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Author of HS ReutlingenBrenner, Beate; Hummel, Vera
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-15810
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.promfg.2017.04.039
ISSN:2351-9789
Erschienen in:Procedia manufacturing
Publisher:Elsevier
Place of publication:Amsterdam
Editor:Joachim Metternich
Document Type:Journal article
Language:English
Publication year:2017
Tag:business ecosystem; cloud- and app-based platform; digital factory; digital shopfloor management; digital twin; indoor localization; sensor combinations; software agents
Volume:9
Page Number:8
First Page:198
Last Page:205
DDC classes:620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau
Open access?:Ja
Licence (German):License Logo  Creative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International