Paper Info
Title
Digital Twins Supporting Efficient Digital Industrial Transformation
Abstract
Industry 4.0 applications help digital industrial transformation to be achieved through smart, data-driven solutions that improve production efficiency, product consistency, preventive maintenance, and the logistics of industrial applications and related supply chains. To enable and accelerate digital industrial transformation, it is vital to support cost-efficient Industry 4.0 application development. However, the development of such Industry 4.0 applications is currently expensive due to the limitations of existing IoT platforms in representing complex industrial machines, the support of only production line-based application testing, and the lack of cost models for application cost/benefit analysis. In this paper, we propose the use of Cyber Twins (CTs), an extension of Digital Twins, to support cost-efficient Industry 4.0 application development. CTs provide semantic descriptions of the machines they represent and incorporate machine simulators that enable application testing without any production line risk and cost. This paper focuses on CT-based Industry 4.0 application development and the related cost models. Via a case study of a CT-based Industry 4.0 application from the dairy industry, the paper shows that CT-based Industry 4.0 applications can be developed with approximately 60% of the cost of IoT platform-based application development.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.3390/s21206829
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
cyber twins, digital twins, Industry 4.0 cost model
Journal
21
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
20
1424-8220
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dinithi Bamunuarachchi100.34
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos22554580.54
Abhik Banerjee300.34
Prem Prakash Jayaraman437844.66