Abstract

LUTTERS, E.. Pilot production environments driven by digital twins. S. Afr. J. Ind. Eng. [online]. 2018, vol.29, n.3, pp.40-53. ISSN 2224-7890.  http://dx.doi.org/10.7166/29-3-2047.

Establishing production environments requires joint decisionmaking by stakeholders from many disciplines at different levels of aggregation, because of the significant, unpredictable, and risky investments involved. Pilot plants offer a platform to develop, test, improve, and upscale (parts of) a production environment. They consist of physical and virtual components that are integrated, based on the digital twin concept. This concept synthesises sensoring/measurement (in situ and ex situ) with the modelling and simulation of existing and evolving resources/processes at operational, tactical, and strategic levels. Virtual dashboards supplement the pilot plant to provide an insightful basis for decision-making for all the perspectives and stakeholders involved.

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