Digital twins: Understanding the added value of integrated models for through-life engineering services

Vrabič, Rok; Erkoyuncu, John Ahmet; Butala, Peter; Roy, Rajkumar

doi:10.1016/j.promfg.2018.10.167

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“…d) Zheng et al 2018 [8] "A Digital Twin is a set of virtual information that fully describes a potential or actual physical production from the micro atomic level to the macro geometrical level." e) Vrabic et al 2018 [9] "A digital twin is a digital representation of a physical item or assembly using integrated simulations and service data. The digital representation holds information from multiple sources across the product life cycle.…”

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Digital Twin: Enabling Technologies, Challenges and Open Research

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Digital Twin technology is an emerging concept that has become the centre of attention for industry and, in more recent years, academia. The advancements in industry 4.0 concepts have facilitated its growth, particularly in the manufacturing industry. The Digital Twin is defined extensively but is best described as the effortless integration of data between a physical and virtual machine in either direction. The challenges, applications, and enabling technologies for Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT) and Digital Twins are presented. A review of publications relating to Digital Twins is performed, producing a categorical review of recent papers. The review has categorised them by research areas: manufacturing, healthcare and smart cities, discussing a range of papers that reflect these areas and the current state of research. The paper provides an assessment of the enabling technologies, challenges and open research for Digital Twins.

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“…In most definitions, the DT is considered as a virtual representation that interacts with the physical object throughout its lifecycle and provides intelligence for evaluation, optimization, prediction, etc. (68)(69)(70)(71)(72). For instance, in the industrial sector the DT is used as an in silico presentation of technical applications in order to optimize them through computer simulations (67,73,74).…”

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Digital Twins for Multiple Sclerosis

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An individualized innovative disease management is of great importance for people with multiple sclerosis (pwMS) to cope with the complexity of this chronic, multidimensional disease. However, an individual state of the art strategy, with precise adjustment to the patient’s characteristics, is still far from being part of the everyday care of pwMS. The development of digital twins could decisively advance the necessary implementation of an individualized innovative management of MS. Through artificial intelligence-based analysis of several disease parameters – including clinical and para-clinical outcomes, multi-omics, biomarkers, patient-related data, information about the patient’s life circumstances and plans, and medical procedures – a digital twin paired to the patient’s characteristic can be created, enabling healthcare professionals to handle large amounts of patient data. This can contribute to a more personalized and effective care by integrating data from multiple sources in a standardized manner, implementing individualized clinical pathways, supporting physician-patient communication and facilitating a shared decision-making. With a clear display of pre-analyzed patient data on a dashboard, patient participation and individualized clinical decisions as well as the prediction of disease progression and treatment simulation could become possible. In this review, we focus on the advantages, challenges and practical aspects of digital twins in the management of MS. We discuss the use of digital twins for MS as a revolutionary tool to improve diagnosis, monitoring and therapy refining patients’ well-being, saving economic costs, and enabling prevention of disease progression. Digital twins will help make precision medicine and patient-centered care a reality in everyday life.

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“…Digital twin can effectively connect the device layer and network layer, and help to collect, transfer and integrate the fragmented knowledge in the industrial system into the platform [60]. Studies by Cenamor et al [61] and Eloranta et al [62,63] recognize the importance of the platform in undertaking digital transformation in the pursuit of strategic opportunities; they propose that the use of a platform to share information can achieve a higher degree of customization and operational efficiency through front-end and back-end integration.…”

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Sustainable Business Model Based on Digital Twin Platform Network: The Inspiration from Haier’s Case Study in China

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Sustainability and digitalization have become the main direction of transformation of enterprises. Building a digital twin platform network can provide enterprises with a comprehensive view of products, manufacture, supply chain, customer experience, and profitability, which is conducive to the construction of a sustainable business model. The purpose of this paper is to study how enterprises use digital twin platform networks to generate economic, social and environmental benefits in various dimensions and their coupling relationships. Based on the literature review, this paper constructs a five-dimensional framework of a sustainable business model, and analyses the coupling relationship between dimensions. Using Haier as a way to verify the five-dimensional framework, it explores the dynamic mechanism of the Haier digital twin platform network, constructs an integrated framework based on coupling perspective and compares it with other two home appliance enterprises. The study shows that, through the digital twin platform network, enterprises can remove the disadvantage of focusing on a single product life cycle, and form a comprehensive network, so as to promote overall sustainable upgrades. This paper draws generic strategies and digital transformation suggestions for enterprises to innovate the sustainable business model. The conclusion enriches the research on sustainable business models both theoretically and practically and provides a feasible reference for the transformation of enterprises in digital economy environment.

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Digital twins: Understanding the added value of integrated models for through-life engineering services

Cited by 88 publications

References 5 publications

Digital Twin: Enabling Technologies, Challenges and Open Research

Digital Twin: Enabling Technologies, Challenges and Open Research

Digital Twins for Multiple Sclerosis

Sustainable Business Model Based on Digital Twin Platform Network: The Inspiration from Haier’s Case Study in China

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