PILOT PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS DRIVEN BY DIGITAL TWINS

Authors

  • Eric Lutters Department of Design, Production and Management Faculty of Engineering Technology, University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands Extra-ordinary Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Stellenbosch University South Africa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7166/29-3-2047

Abstract

Establishing production environments requires joint decision-making by stakeholders from many disciplines at different levels of aggregation, because of the significant, unpredictable, and risky investments involved. Pilot plants offer a platform to develop, test, improve, and upscale (parts of) a production environment. They consist of physical and virtual components that are integrated, based on the digital twin concept. This concept synthesises sensoring/measurement (in situ and ex situ) with the modelling and simulation of existing and evolving resources/processes at operational, tactical, and strategic levels. Virtual dashboards supplement the pilot plant to provide an insightful basis for decision-making for all the perspectives and stakeholders involved.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

Published

2018-11-09

How to Cite

Lutters, E. (2018). PILOT PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS DRIVEN BY DIGITAL TWINS. The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering, 29(3), 40–53. https://doi.org/10.7166/29-3-2047

Issue

Vol. 29 No. 3 (2018)

Section

Special Edition

License

Authors who publish in the Journal agree to the following terms:
  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this Journal.
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the Journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this Journal.

Most read articles by the same author(s)