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    Industry 4.

    0, MSE 980
    Lecture 11

    Instructor: Dr, Farshid Najafi


    Updated Fall 2023

    School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering


    Simon Fraser University

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    Digital Twin

    A digital twin is a virtual representation of a physical object and is one way to


    integrate real-world objects into the digital world.

    A Digital Twin integrates all data, simulation models, and other information from a
    physical object generated during engineering, commissioning, operation, and service
    and is provided to designers, engineers, operators, and service technicians across
    vertical domains.

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    Digital Twin
    Digital Twin

    A digital twin is a virtual representation of a physical product or process, used to understand and predict the physical
    counterpart’s performance characteristics. Digital twins are used throughout the product lifecycle to simulate, predict, and
    optimize the product and production system before investing in physical prototypes and assets.

    By incorporating multi-physics simulation, data analytics, and machine learning capabilities, digital twins are able to
    demonstrate the impact of design changes, usage scenarios, environmental conditions, and other endless variables –
    eliminating the need for physical prototypes, reducing development time, and improving quality of the finalized product or
    process.

    To ensure accurate modeling over the entire lifetime of a product or its production, digital twins use data from sensors installed
    on physical objects to determine the objects’ real-time performance, operating conditions, and changes over time. Using this
    data, the digital twin evolves and continuously updates to reflect any change to the physical counterpart throughout the product
    lifecycle, creating a closed loop of feedback in a virtual environment that enables companies to continuously optimize their
    products, production, and performance at minimal cost.

    The potential applications for a digital twin depend on what stage of the product lifecycle it models. Generally speaking, there
    are three types of digital twins – Product, Production, and Performance, which are explained below. The combination and
    integration of the three digital twins as they evolve together is known as the digital thread. The term "thread" is used because it
    is woven into, and brings together data from, all stages of the product and production lifecycles. 3
    Digital Twin

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    Digital Twin

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    Digital Twin

    Product Digital Twins

    Using digital twins for efficient design of new


    products
    Digital twins can be used to virtually validate product performance,
    while also showing how your products are currently acting in the
    physical world. This “product digital twin” provides a virtual-physical
    connection that lets you analyze how a product performs under
    various conditions and make adjustments in the virtual world to
    ensure that the next physical product will perform exactly as planned
    in the field. It doesn’t matter if you have complex systems and
    materials – product digital twins help you navigate that complexity to
    make the best possible decisions. All of this eliminates the need for
    multiple prototypes, reduces total development time, improves the
    quality of the final manufactured product, and enables faster iterations
    in response to customer feedback.
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    Digital Twin

    Production Digital Twins


    Using digital twins in manufacturing & and
    production planning

    A production digital twin can help validate how well a manufacturing


    process will work on the shop floor before anything goes into
    production. By simulating the process using a digital twin and
    analyzing why things are happening using the digital thread,
    companies can create a production methodology that stays efficient
    under a variety of conditions.
    The production can be optimized even further by creating product
    digital twins of all the manufacturing equipment. Using the data from
    the product and production digital twins, businesses can prevent
    costly downtime to equipment – and even predict when preventative
    maintenance will be necessary. This constant stream of accurate
    information enables manufacturing operations that are faster, more
    efficient, and more reliable.

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    Digital Twin

    Performance Digital Twins


    Using digital twins to capture, analyze, and act on operational data

    Smart products and smart plants generate massive amounts of data regarding their utilization and effectiveness. The
    performance digital twin captures this data from products and plants in operation and analyzes it to provide
    actionable insight for informed decision-making. By leveraging performance digital twins, companies can:
    •Create new business opportunities
    •Gain insight to improve virtual models
    •Capture, aggregate, and analyze operational data
    •Improve product and production system efficiency

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    Digital Twin

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