1. Digital twins-based remote semi-physical commissioning of flow-type smart manufacturing systems.
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Leng, Jiewu, Zhou, Man, Xiao, Yuxuan, Zhang, Hu, Liu, Qiang, Shen, Weiming, Su, Qianyi, and Li, Longzhang
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COVID-19 pandemic , *ENGINEERING equipment , *ELECTRONIC paper , *COVID-19 , *ASSEMBLY line methods - Abstract
The COVID-19 has become a global pandemic that dramatically impacted human lives and economic activities. Due to the high risk of getting affected in high-density population areas and the implementation of national emergency measures under the COVID-19 pandemic, both travel and transportation among cities become difficult for engineers and equipment. Consequently, the costly physical commissioning of a new manufacturing system is greatly hindered. As an emerging technology, digital twins can achieve semi-physical simulation to avoid the vast cost of physical commissioning of the manufacturing system. Therefore, this paper proposes a digital twins-based remote semi-physical commissioning (DT-RSPC) approach for open architecture flow-type smart manufacturing systems. A digital twin system is developed to enable the remote semi-physical commissioning. The proposed approach is validated through a case study of digital twins-based remote semi-physical commissioning of a smartphone assembly line. The results showed that combining the open architecture design paradigm with the proposed digital twins-based approach makes the commissioning of a new flow-type smart manufacturing system more sustainable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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