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Manufacturing

Interoperability in manufacturing

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SysML Extension for Logistics Modeling and Analysis (SysLMA)

April 23, 2025
Author(s)
Raphael Barbau, Conrad Bock
Many engineers use analysis tools to predict behavior or find optimal values for properties of systems built to proposed designs, informing system design work by identifying cases where a design will perform incorrectly or in suboptimal ways. Design and

Metadata Modeling for Manufacturing Enterprise Integration

January 6, 2025
Author(s)
Yan Lu, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, James Jim Wilson, Michael Figura, Josh Ki, David Noller
The continuous digitalization and digital transformation are expanding enterprise information exchange scenarios that span product data, process data sets, and supply chain documents. This paper samples common manufacturing enterprise metadata exchange

Building a Digital Twin of a CNC Machine Tool

December 18, 2024
Author(s)
Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao, Rishabh Venketesh, Matthew Triebe
Developing digital twins for manufacturing applications is challenging due to insufficient modeling frameworks and standardized procedures. As a result, the number of successful digital twin implementations has not caught up with the increasing literature

Integrating Dynamic Digital Twins: Enabling Real-Time Connectivity for IoT and Virtual Reality

December 18, 2024
Author(s)
Lejla Erdal, Ammar Gubartalla, Paulo Victor Lopes, Huizhong Cao, Guodong Shao, Per Lonnehed, Henri Putto, Abbe Ahmed, Sven Ekered, Bjorn Johansson
As Industry 4.0 technology is still evolving, research and implementation gaps due to issues such as costs, security, and lack of domain expertise for enabling Digital Twins and supportive technology need to be bridged. This paper proposes a practical

Economics of Digital Twins: Costs, Benefits, and Economic Decision Making

October 30, 2024
Author(s)
Douglas Thomas
This report examines the economics of digital twins in the manufacturing industry, including the costs, benefits, and economic decision to invest in the adoption of a digital twin. It characterizes the costs and benefits along with the circumstances under

Digital Twins for Advanced Manufacturing: The Standardized Approach

October 26, 2024
Author(s)
Guodong Shao, Deogratias Kibira, Simon P. Frechette
Recently, digital twins are becoming more prevalent in a wide range of industries such as manufacturing, construction, smart city, healthcare, business for various purposes including observing, predicting, optimizing, and controlling. However, because

Manufacturing Digital Twin Standards

September 24, 2024
Author(s)
Guodong Shao
As a foundation of digital transformation, digital twins are critical for achieving smart manufacturing. Recent technology advancements, such as smart sensors, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI)

Employing Word-Embedding for Schema Matching in Standard Lifecycle Management

December 29, 2023
Author(s)
Hakju Oh, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Albert T. Jones, Tim Finin
Today, businesses rely on numerous information systems to achieve their production goals and improve their global competitiveness. Semantically integrating those systems is essential for businesses to achieve both. To do so, businesses must rely on

Digital Twin Core Conceptual Models and Services

November 3, 2023
Author(s)
Shi-Wan Lin, Kym Watson, Guodong Shao, Ljiljana Stojanovic, Bassam Zarkout
To improve operational efficiency and enhance competitiveness in business, organizations are broadly undergoing digital transformation. As a foundation for digital transformation, digital twins enable system operators to dynamically represent, diagnose

Physical Component Libraries for SysPhS Modeling and Simulation in Manufacturing

October 10, 2023
Author(s)
Charles Manion, Conrad Bock, Raphael Barbau
Computer-interpretable representations of system structure and behavior are at the center of developing today's complex systems. Systems engineers create and review these representations using graphical languages and information models that capture

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN ONTOLOGY STANDARDS AND THEIR APPLICABILITY TO BIOMANUFACTURING

August 21, 2023
Author(s)
Milos Drobnjakovic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Vijay Srinivasan, Simon P. Frechette
ISO and IEC have jointly initiated, and recently issued, a series of standards (the ISO/IEC 21838 series) for top-level ontologies. These standards have been used by industrial consortia to develop and disseminate standards for mid-level ontologies to ease

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN ONTOLOGY STANDARDS AND THEIR APPLICABILITY TO BIOMANUFACTURING

July 14, 2023
Author(s)
Milos Drobnjakovic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Simon P. Frechette, Vijay Srinivasan
ISO and IEC have jointly initiated, and recently issued, a series of standards (the ISO/IEC 21838 series) for top-level ontologies. These standards have been used by industrial consortia to develop and disseminate standards for mid-level ontologies to ease

Current challenges and recent advances on the path towards continuous biomanufacturing

June 21, 2023
Author(s)
Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Milos Drobnjakovic, Nenad Ivezic, Vijay Srinivasan, Roger Hart
Continuous biopharmaceutical manufacturing is currently a field of intense research due to its potential to make the entire production process more optimal for the modern, ever-evolving biopharmaceutical market. Compared to traditional batch manufacturing

BUILDING A DIGITAL TWIN OF AN AUTOMATED ROBOT WORKCELL

May 26, 2023
Author(s)
Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao, Rishabh Venketesh
Building a digital twin of a manufacturing system can positively impact its performance with respect to productivity, energy consumption, product quality, and cost. However, leveraging available methods and tools to build a digital twin has been a

Knowledge representation for hierarchical and interconnected business contexts

February 19, 2023
Author(s)
Nenad Ivezic, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Hakju Oh, Elena Jelisic, Scott Nieman, Anicic Nenad, Marjanovic Zoran
Although business context has been introduced as an important concept for message standards usage and maintenance, its usability depends on the tech-nique used to represent contextual knowledge. This paper proposes a logic-based business context modeling

A Methodology for Digital Twins of Product Lifecycle Supported by Digital Thread

February 8, 2023
Author(s)
Laetitia Monnier, Guodong Shao, Sebti Foufou
The technological advancement has led to the transition of manufacturing industries to Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0. Promising concepts such as Digital Twin and Digital Thread could help speed up the transition. One of the benefits of using digital

STEP-NC Process Planning for Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing

October 20, 2022
Author(s)
Fahad Milaat, Paul Witherell, Martin Hardwick, Ho Yeung, Vincenzo Ferrero, Laetitia Monnier, Matthew Brown
Powder bed fusion (PBF) is an additive manufacturing (AM) technology that uses high-power beams to fuse powder material into layers of scanned patterns, thus producing parts with great geometric complexity. For PBF, the selection of appropriate process
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