Modular based flexible digital twin for factory design

摘要

Factory design offers many promising capabilities regarding productivity and floor utilization. To evaluate the design and help the designer to escape design flaws, digital twin is proposed to support factory design. With considering of frequently changing in design phase, a modular approach was proposed to help building flexible digital twin and conducting corresponding changes. By using flexible digital twin, designer can quickly evaluate different designs and find design flaws in an easy way. And consequently time saving can be benefited. A case study of application on real factory is presented to illustrate the advantage.