Flexible Reference Model for Planning and Optimization

Generierung digitaler Fabrikmodelle mit dem digitalen Zwilling

Michael Schlecht, Jürgen Köbler, Roland de Guio
JournalIndustrie 4.0 Management
Issue Volume 37, 2021, Edition 5, Pages 53-56
Open Accesshttps://doi.org/10.30844/I40M_21-5_S53-56
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Abstract

The digital twin has moved into the focus of manufacturing companies and has been identified by Gartner as a key technology [1]. In the automotive industry, VW uses the digital twin in the cloud to plan, control and optimize production at all 122 locations in the future [2]. The digital twin is also the basis and an integral part of new, digital business models and the digitization of production companies. This article gives an overview of the current state of the art and describes a flexible reference model for planning and optimizing production systems based on the digital twin. The focus is on the one hand on the optimization of static layouts and material flows and on the other hand on the optimization of dynamic material flows and the temporal organization of processes.

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