Digital Twin Driven Smart Manufacturing

This book examines the background, latest research, and application models for digital twin technology, and shows how it can be central to a smart manufacturing process. The interest in digital twin in manufacturing is driven by a need for excellent product reliability, and an overall trend towards...

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Main Authors Tao, Fei, Zhang, Meng, Nee, A. Y. C
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Chantilly Elsevier 2019
Elsevier Science & Technology
Academic Press
Edition1
Subjects
Manufacturing Competitiveness
Manufacturing Engineering
Manufacturing industries-Technological innovations
Process Design, Control & Automation
Process Modeling & Simulation
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Summary:This book examines the background, latest research, and application models for digital twin technology, and shows how it can be central to a smart manufacturing process. The interest in digital twin in manufacturing is driven by a need for excellent product reliability, and an overall trend towards intelligent, and connected manufacturing systems. This book provides an ideal entry point to this subject for readers in industry and academia, as it answers the questions: (a) What is a digital twin? (b) How to construct a digital twin? (c) How to use a digital twin to improve manufacturing efficiency? (d) What are the essential activities in the implementation of a digital twin? (e) What are the most important obstacles to overcome for the successful deployment of a digital twin? (f) What are the relations between digital twin and New Technologies? (g) How to combine digital twin with the New Technologies to achieve high efficiency and smartness in manufacturing?
ISBN:9780128176306
012817630X
DOI:10.1016/C2018-0-02206-9