Potentials and Application of the Industrial Metaverse

Convergence from simulation to reality

Oliver Petrovic, Yannick Dassen, Christian Brecher
JournalIndustrie 4.0 Management
Issue Volume 39, 2023, Edition 5, Pages 27-32
Open Accesshttps://doi.org/10.30844/IM_23-5_27-32
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Abstract

This paper deals with the concept of the Industrial Metaverse and its potential impact on the manufacturing industry. First, the possibilities of the Industrial Metaverse are explained in general and then possible resulting functionalities for production technology along the life cycle are presented. For the two topics "Synthetic Data Generation" and "Virtual Qualification" the implications of the Industrial Metaverse are considered more concretely.

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