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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 … predicting, optimizing, and controlling. However, because digital twins are still in their early adoption stage, in … standards that have been developed, and the ecosystem of digital twins has not been well established. Developing and …

Manufacturing Digital Twin Standards

September 24, 2024
Author(s)
Guodong Shao
… complexity, there remains a lot of confusion about what a digital twin is, how it can be implemented in real manufacturing systems, and how to ensure the digital twin developed is trustworthy. This paper discusses the manufacturing digital twin use cases and benefits, common challenges for …

FRAMEWORK FOR A DIGITAL TWIN IN MANUFACTURING

April 11, 2020
Author(s)
Guodong Shao, Moneer M. Helu
… Digital twin has the potential to be an important technology … the different perspectives that have been reported on the digital twin to identify the key characteristics that must be understood when developing a digital twin for a specific use case. Example applications …

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

February 8, 2023
Author(s)
Laetitia Monnier, Guodong Shao, Sebti Foufou
… 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 twins is to allow the continuity of lifecycle … will facilitate the interoperability and reusability of digital twins. Because data from each lifecycle stage could …

Using Simulation and Digital Twins to Innovate: Are We Getting Smarter?

December 15, 2021
Author(s)
Simon Taylor, Bjorn Johansson, Sumin Jeon, Loo Hay Lee, Peter Lendermann, Guodong Shao
… Digital Twins have recently emerged as a major new area of innovation. Digital Twins are often found at the core of "smart" … behavior of its real-world counterpart. On the face of it Digital Twins and M&S appear to be similar, if not the same. … Using Simulation and Digital Twins to Innovate: Are We Getting Smarter? …

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 … However, leveraging available methods and tools to build a digital twin has been a challenge for many manufacturers, … of instantiating the ISO 23247 framework for building a digital twin of a laboratory sized workcell comprising robot …

Digital Twin Core Conceptual Models and Services

November 3, 2023
Author(s)
Shi-Wan Lin, Kym Watson, Guodong Shao, Ljiljana Stojanovic, Bassam Zarkout
… and standards-based approaches are needed in building out digital twin systems that are useful and cost-effective. … is being installed on site. This report proposes such a "digital twin core," a middleware between underlying … of digital twins, basic requirements, the concept of digital twin core, its metamodel and information models, …

Maintenance and Operations of Manufacturing Digital Twins

December 13, 2023
Author(s)
Alp Akcay, Stephan Biller, Boon Ping Gan, Christoph Laroque, Guodong Shao
… Digital twins have become an important element in smart manufacturing. As any other product, digital twins also have a lifecycle, starting from specifying the requirements of the digital twins until their decommissioning. As part of the … Digital Twins, Smart Manufacturing, Maintenance and …

DIGITAL TWIN FOR SMART MANUFACTURING: THE PRACTITIONER'S PERSPECTIVE

November 18, 2020
Author(s)
Maja Barring, Guodong Shao, Bjorn Johansson
… One of the essential technology concepts for this shift is digital twin and researchers have made some advancement on digital twin development and implementations. However, in … SMEs regarding their understanding and acceptance of the digital twin concept. Five supply-chain companies from …

CREDIBILITY CONSIDERATION FOR DIGITAL TWINS IN MANUFACTURING

December 16, 2022
Author(s)
Guodong Shao, Joe Hightower, William Schindel
… for advanced manufacturing. However, to ensure that digital twins provide valuable decision support, the results generated by the digital twins must be trustworthy for real manufacturing … techniques need to be applied throughout the life cycle of digital twins. Verification and Validation (V&V) activities …

DIGITAL TWIN FOR SMART MANUFACTURING: THE SIMULATION ASPECT

December 11, 2019
Author(s)
Guodong Shao, Sanjay Jain, Christoph Laroque, Loo Hay Lee, Peter Lendermann, Oliver Rose
… of this panel is to discuss the state of the art in digital twin for manufacturing research and practice from the … future directions. Two of the panelists also report their digital twin projects and lessons learned. The panelists may … the simulation community with their future study topics on digital twin for manufacturing. …

Data Requirements for a Digital Twin of a Robot Workcell

February 1, 2024
Author(s)
Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao
… of a physical element. However, successfully building a digital twin requires data identification, data fusion, and … usage, especially data scoping and scaling to implement a digital twin for a specific purpose. The objective of this … method of collection, and typical data formats. The digital twin types include descriptive digital twins, …

Building a Digital Twin of a CNC Machine Tool

December 18, 2024
Author(s)
Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao, Rishabh Venketesh, Matthew Triebe
… procedures. As a result, the number of successful digital twin implementations has not caught up with the increasing literature. Yet, digital twin technology can support decision-making and … machines. This paper uses a framework provided by the digital twin standard, ISO 23247, to build a digital twin of …

DATA REQUIREMENTS FOR A DIGITAL TWIN OF A CNC MACHINE TOOL

January 29, 2026
Author(s)
Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao
… other Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Creating a valid digital twin for a specific purpose requires identifying and … of clarity on the sufficiency of data required to build a digital twin for a specific purpose. This paper discusses the … with different capabilities. Depending on the purpose, any digital twin can be categorized as descriptive, diagnostic, …

An Overarching Quality Evaluation Framework for Additive Manufacturing Digital Twin

September 2, 2024
Author(s)
Yan Lu, Zhuo Yang, Shengyen Li, Yaoyao Fiona Zhao, Jiarui Xie, Mutahar Safdar, Hyunwoong Ko
… This paper provides a framework for tracking digital twin performance in Additive Manufacturing … of AM digital twins. This framework is founded on a digital twin development activity model, which identifies the digital objects through the digital twin evolution life cycle, delineating their quality …

Towards a Digital Twin of a Robot Workcell: Standards and Methods

October 28, 2024
Author(s)
Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao, Rishabh Venketesh
… due to lack of resources and absence of standardized digital twin frameworks. This paper describes the building of a digital twin for a robot workcell using available standards, … The ISO 23247 standard provides a guideline for building a digital twin in manufacturing. The MTConnect standard …

A CASE STUDY OF DIGITAL TWIN FOR A MANUFACTURING PROCESS INVOLVING HUMAN INTERACTIONS

December 15, 2020
Author(s)
Hasan Latif, Guodong Shao, Binil Starly
… making on the shop floor. An adaptive simulation-based, digital twin is developed for a real manufacturing case. The digital twin demonstrates the improvement in predicting … Digital Twin, Simulation, Manual Process … A CASE STUDY OF DIGITAL TWIN FOR A MANUFACTURING PROCESS INVOLVING HUMAN …

Towards Ontologizing a Digital Twin Framework for Manufacturing

September 21, 2023
Author(s)
Milos Drobnjakovic, Guodong Shao, Ana Nikolov, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Simon P. Frechette, Vijay Srinivasan
… This paper presents a timely opportunity to ontologize a digital twin frame-work for manufacturing using recently … ontologies to create a domain-level ontology for a digital twin framework for manufacturing. This can then be … to those employed in the creation of the ontology and digital twin standards, to reach the goals of the proposed …

Digital Twin Lab: Supporting Research and Development, and Standards and Implementations

August 29, 2025
Author(s)
Rishabh Venketesh, Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao, Matthew Triebe
… and Medium-sized Enterprises), while slower to adopt digital twin technologies, are currently in the process of … of Standards and Technology (NIST) has established a Digital Twin Laboratory (DTL) to serve as a testbed for … data pipeline, digital twins, digital twin standards, laboratory, manufacturing cell, …

Use Case Scenarios for Digital Twin Implementation Based on ISO 23247

May 4, 2021
Author(s)
Guodong Shao
… As a key part of digital transformation, digital twin is an important concept for achieving smart … However, there remains a lot of confusion about the digital twin concept and how it can be implemented in real … help address these challenges. This paper discusses the digital twin concept, definitions, applications, and recent …

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 … and benefits along with the circumstances under which digital twins are likely to be cost effective. The report … a proposed 5-step method for investment analysis in digital twins. Finally, it provides an approximated estimate …

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
… costs, security, and lack of domain expertise for enabling Digital Twins and supportive technology need to be bridged. … Digital twins, Standards, Simulation, Virtual Reality, IoT … Integrating Dynamic Digital Twins: Enabling Real-Time Connectivity for IoT and …
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