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Digital Twin prototype to support Factory and Production Planning

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: At present, make-to-order production systems face layout and production planning challenges due to unpredictable and fluctuating customer demand. Traditional planning approaches are static and limited in its ability to evaluate potential " To-be " scenarios for future production scaling. Therefore, Digital Twin based factory and production planning seems to be a promising approach owing to its dynamic characteristics. Hence, this case study proposes a Digital Twin Prototype development approach for effective factory and production planning. This approach integrates assembly line balancing and digital factory planning to implement the “ what ifs ” scenarios and further lays the foundation to build simulation based Digital Twin.

Source: IFAC-PapersOnLine

DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2025.09.159

Authors: Abdul Raheem, Patrick Dallasega, Ishaan Kaushal, Andrea Revolti, Hebert Alonso Medina Suni

Institution: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Language: English

Topic: Digital Transformation in Industry

Subfield: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: European Commission