Designing the Digital Twins of Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems: application on a smart factory
Catherine da Cunha, Olivier Cardin, Guillaume Gallot, Julien Viaud
Abstract
The emergence of Digital Twins in manufacturing enables in-depth integration of the physical and informational worlds. Meanwhile, the concept of Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems exhibits new opportunities and new constraints in the way the manufacturing systems are designed and managed. Among others, the notion of modularity is a prerequisite for both physical components and their informational counterparts. To provide the benefits of Digital Twin to Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems, this paper introduces a modular design of the Digital Twin counterpart of the components. A prototype system is developed to demonstrate the modular design’s benefits, with an application on a reconfigurable learning factory.