Conveners
INVITED Digital Twins/Industry 4.0
- Marco P. Seabra dos Reis (Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Coimbra)
Since the early works by Shewhart and Deming manufacturing is mainly controlled by adapting a design and its tolerances to the statistical variation of the process. In design development work there is a challenge to take into account variation and uncertainty in connection to geometrical outcome for products where fabrication is used, where bits and pieces are joined together by...
Turning data into accurate decision support is one of the challenges in the daily organizational life. There are several aspects of it related to variation in the interaction between technology, organization, and humans, where the normal managing and engineering methods based on an outside-in perspective of system development does not always work. Problems such as lack of common understanding...
The process of digitalization is happening at a great pace and is driven by enabling technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, simulation tools, big data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). Altogether, these allow to create virtual copies of physical systems or even complete environments. The concept of Digital Twins (DTs) provides a framework for integrating...