Digital twin driven factory and production planning (FPP)
Abdul Raheem, Matteo De Marchi, Patrick Dallasega
Abstract
In today’s competitive manufacturing environment, monitoring the factory floor and ensuring production visibility are critical. Factory and Production Planning (FPP) is a structured approach that encompasses both physical infrastructure in factory planning and operational workflows in production planning to ensure a smooth and efficient production system. Optimizing factory layout and synchronized production activities demand virtual, dynamic and real-time representation. Recently, a few studies have explored the concept of Digital Twin for FPP. However, a unified understanding is still missing regarding how this concept can be translated for FPP and the value it can generate. Thus, this article aims to investigate the enablers, challenges, and contributions associated with Digital Twin in FPP aspects. The insights highlight Digital Twin’s potential to enable dynamic planning. To fully leverage its benefits, further research is needed to validate the proposed framework and to develop a Digital Twin model that seamlessly integrates FPP.