Special Issue "Advances in Digital Twins for Manufacturing"
A special issue of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Manufacturing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2023 | Viewed by 2382
Special Issue Editors
Interests: manufacturing technology; life cycle assesment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The proposed applications of digital twins have exploded in the last half decade. While applicable to all aspects human activities, digital twins are especially useful for products throughout their entire lifecycle, especially in manufacturing. The ability to effectively and efficiently manufacture products is critical to the products’ success. By trading information for wasting physical resources, digital twins can enable manufacturing to be as lean as possible.
The use of digital twins in manufacturing is important in two aspects. First, digital twins can be used in the manufacturing process itself, from creating the manufacturing process to monitoring and controlling the entire manufacturing process from raw material to final assembly and shipment. Digital twins can be used at all levels of production, from individual equipment to work cells to assembly lines to the entire manufacturing facility. Second, capturing information about how individual products have been manufactured is critical for creating the digital twin instance (DTI), which will then be connected to that product for the rest of the product’s life.
Dr. Michael Grieves
Dr. John Vickers
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- digital twin predictive versus periodic maintenance
- digital twin factory replication for monitoring and control
- digital twin for front running simulation (FRS) of manufacturing for problem and failure avoidance
- digital twin instance (DTI) creation in manufacturing
- digital-twin-enabled manufacturability during product development
- digital-twin-enabled manufacturing bill of process creation
- digital twins for legacy manufacturing equipment
- digital twin interoperability of different factory machines and equipment
- digital twin metaverses and platforms for manufacturing facilities
- digital-twin-based specification/quality manufacturing control
