Digital Twin-Based Services and Data Visualization of Material Handling Equipment in Smart Production Logistics Environment

Abstract

Smart production logistics has introduced in manufacturing industries with emerging technologies such as digital twin, industrial internet of things, and cyber-physical system. This technological innovation initiates the new way of working, working environment, and decision-making process. Especially the decision-making process has changed from experience and intuition to knowledge and data driven. In this paper, digital twin-based services, and data visualization of material handling equipment in smart production logistics environment are presented. There are several applications of digital twin in manufacturing industries already, however feedback from the virtual environment to physical environment and interactions between them which are the essential features of digital twin are very weak in many applications. Therefore, we have developed digital twin-based services in the laboratory scale including feedback and interaction. In addition, data visualization application of material handling equipment in automotive industry is presented to provide insights to the users. Both applications have developed based on the same framework including database and middleware, so it has possibilities to develop further in the future.