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Digital twin-based smart production management and control framework for the complex product assembly shop-floor

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Digital twin technology is considered as a key technology to realize cyber-physical systems (CPS). However, due to the complexity of building a digital equivalent in virtual space to its physical counterpart, very little progress has been achieved in digital twin application, especially in the complex product assembly shop-floor. In this paper, we propose a framework of digital twin-based smart production management and control approach for complex product assembly shop-floors. Four core techniques embodied in the framework are illustrated in detail as follows: (1) real-time acquisition, organization, and management of the physical assembly shop-floor data, (2) construction of the assembly shop-floor digital twin, (3) digital twin and big data-driven prediction of the assembly shop-floor, and (4) digital twin-based assembly shop-floor production management and control service. To elaborate how to apply the proposed approach to reality, we present detailed implementation process of the proposed digital twin-based smart production management and control approach in a satellite assembly shop-floor scenario. Meanwhile, the future work to completely fulfill digital twin-based smart production management and control concept for complex product assembly shop-floors are discussed.

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The authors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the anonymous reviewers for the invaluable comments and suggestions that have improved the quality of the paper. We also wish to thank Professor Chengtong Tang for his helpful comments on the paper.

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    Cunbo Zhuang, Jianhua Liu & Hui Xiong

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Zhuang, C., Liu, J. & Xiong, H. Digital twin-based smart production management and control framework for the complex product assembly shop-floor. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 96, 1149–1163 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-018-1617-6

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