Digital Twin Experiments Focusing Virtualisation, Connectivity and Real-time Monitoring
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Industry 4.0 is re-shaping the manufacturing world,
and amongst the several associated emerging methods and
technologies, Digital Twin is becoming a popular approach both
in industry and academia. However, the lack of knowledge about
the characteristics, functionalities, best practices and benefits
that it can provide, especially for small and medium enterprises,
constraints its wider adoption. The use of real applications and
demonstrators can contribute to exposing stakeholders to these
new and innovative technologies and approaches, showing the
applicability of Digital Twins. This paper presents several experiments
in implementing Digital Twin for automation scenarios,
considering different technologies and functionalities, namely in
terms of virtualisation, connectivity and monitoring. Lessons
learnt and challenges are also provided as a result of the
experimental implementations.
This work has been supported by FCT – Fundação
para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the Project Scope
UIDB/05757/2020. The author Flávia Pires thanks the Fundação
para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal for the
Ph.D. Grant SFRH/BD/143243/2019.
