1. A concept for the automated layout generation of an existing production line within the digital twin
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Florian Biesinger, Michael Weyrich, Dominik Braun, and Nasser Jazdi
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Production line ,0209 industrial biotechnology ,Computer science ,Control reconfiguration ,02 engineering and technology ,010501 environmental sciences ,01 natural sciences ,Manufacturing engineering ,Product diversity ,Product (business) ,020901 industrial engineering & automation ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Robot ,Production (economics) ,Engineering design process ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,General Environmental Science - Abstract
The use of the Digital Twin as a promising technology during the reconfiguration of automated systems enables to meet the challenges of increasing product diversity and shortening product life cycles in today's industry. The use of Digital Twins supports engineers in all phases of the life cycle of a production line. Over time, however, production facilities are often modified and improved, while at the same time the created models during the engineering process of the system remain unchanged and no longer correspond to the real facility. Manual updating of the positions in the digital layout is very time-consuming and therefore expensive. This paper presents a concept for the automatic update of the layout of a production line. In this concept, the positions of the robots and their active and passive peripheral devices are automatically positioned in a digital plant model using information from the current configuration of the robots in a production line. Therefore, engineers can use the resulting synchronized digital plant model, Digital Twin of the system, to further optimize or expand the production plant.
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- 2021
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