Towards Smart Manufacturing with Dynamic Dataspace Alignment

摘要

In smart factories, physical devices typically have a faithful representation in the digital world, usually referred to as . A Digital Twin (DT) exposes a set of allowing to execute certain operations and produce data describing its activity. DTs are typically used to query or manipulate the state of the shop floor and the availability of DT data can have a huge impact on the design of manufacturing processes. We can imagine shop floor data stored in a factory together with other information, e.g., data available from the company’s employment and production history, business data and worker preferences. Such information in the data space can be used to allow agility of the manufacturing process and even automatic composition of the intermediate steps for achieving a production goal, for instance by suggesting a specific mapping for automatic configuration of the type 2 die cutter in the example above.