Developing Digital Twin for Smart Manufacturing. What are the preliminaries?
The key considerations are formalized into ten generic propositions based on the synthesis of the existing scientific knowledge. It is claimed that the boldest visions of DT technology seem not yet attainable due to several philosophical and technological restrictions.
Jyrki Savolainen
Post-doc. Researcher, LBM,
LUT University
Mikkel Stein Knudsen
Project Researcher, Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC)
University Of Turku
As a practical suggestion, companies should start their system-level digitalization efforts with workable, yet profitable, ‘low-fidelity’ DTs with limited data collection. These types of initiatives may speed up the development towards today’s idealistic visions of factory-wide digital twins. That is, by choosing the right investments in promising DT-technologies, e.g. Finnish manufacturing firms can gain key strategic advantages for the future.”
Savolainen. J., and Knudsen. M. S.(2021). Contrasting Digital Twin Vision of Manufacturing with the Industrial Reality. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, September, 1–18.