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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 … twins present significant challenges. Most current digital twin applications take ad hoc approaches with customized …

Manufacturing Digital Twin Standards

September 24, 2024
Author(s)
Guodong Shao
… As a foundation of digital transformation, digital twins are critical for … complexity, there remains a lot of confusion about what a digital twin is, how it can be implemented in real manufacturing …

Digital Twins for Robot Systems in Manufacturing

October 26, 2024
Author(s)
Ali Malik, Guodong Shao, Jane Tarakhovsky
… to achieve manufacturing adaptability. The concept of a Digital Twin, which replicates the behavior of a complex system in a … use cases. … Ali Malik, Guodong Shao , Jane Tarakhovsky … Digital Twins, Simulation, and Metaverse … Robotics, Digital …

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 …

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" … the case? Are the two fields really separate or is Digital Twin research re-inventing the "M&S wheel"? To investigate …

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, …

Digital Twin Core Conceptual Models and Services

November 3, 2023
Author(s)
Shi-Wan Lin, Kym Watson, Guodong Shao, Ljiljana Stojanovic, Bassam Zarkout
… in business, organizations are broadly undergoing digital transformation. As a foundation for digital … and standards-based approaches are needed in building out digital twin systems that are useful and cost-effective. Systematic …

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 … industry, and government with experience in the digital-twin landscape of the manufacturing industry in the United …

DIGITAL TWIN FOR SMART MANUFACTURING: THE PRACTITIONER'S PERSPECTIVE

November 18, 2020
Author(s)
Maja Barring, Guodong Shao, Bjorn Johansson
… is experiencing a technological paradigm shift, where new digital technologies can help digitalize product design, … One of the essential technology concepts for this shift is digital twin and researchers have made some advancement on digital …

CREDIBILITY CONSIDERATION FOR DIGITAL TWINS IN MANUFACTURING

December 16, 2022
Author(s)
Guodong Shao, Joe Hightower, William Schindel
… Digital Twin has become an important technology for advanced manufacturing. However, to ensure that digital twins provide valuable decision support, the results …

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
… purpose of this panel is to discuss the state of the art in digital twin for manufacturing research and practice from the …

Data Requirements for a Digital Twin of a Robot Workcell

February 1, 2024
Author(s)
Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao
… The applications of digital twins continue to grow with the volume and variety … of a physical element. However, successfully building a digital twin requires data identification, data fusion, and data …

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 … procedures. As a result, the number of successful digital twin implementations has not caught up with the …

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
… The key differentiation of digital twins from existing models-based engineering … effectiveness. This paper provides a framework for tracking digital twin performance in Additive Manufacturing applications and …

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

October 28, 2024
Author(s)
Deogratias Kibira, Guodong Shao, Rishabh Venketesh
… Digital twins are poised to improve the way products are … mainly due to lack of resources and absence of standardized digital twin frameworks. This paper describes the building of a …

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 published …

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. … between an Internet of Things platform and Digital Twin-compliant software for constructing a digital twin …
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