Case Study - Cost Reduction of Actuator for Robot through Design and Sourcing - Value Engineering and Design Verification

 

The University of Texas Series Elastic Actuator (UT-SEA), is a high-performance SEA, for its high power density, compact design, high efficiency and high speed properties. 

The researchers developed a low SEA and named it StoneAge-SEA (SA-SEA.) They used value engineering principle of using standard components and off-shelf available functions components instead of custom built components. They did all the design calculations necessary to satisfy performance as per specification.

Value Analysis Technique 9. Utilize Vendors’ Available Functional Products

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGOT_8TFQi8

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They started with a target of 50% cost reduction. But achieved still higher cost reduction.

Original Cost $5100  

Target $2550 

Achieved $1750

Components used in the The SA-SEA 

(a) Tamagawa Seiki Co., LTD TS4603 motor;

(b) 60:26 pulley system; 

(c) TBI Motion BSHR01205-3.5 ball-screw mechanism; 

(d) Tohatsu Springs TL50-060; 

(e) Tamagawa Seiki Co., LTD TS5667N120 17-bit absolute encoder; 

(f) Misumi BGSTZ6-90 miniature ball bearing guides; 

(g) Force sensing mechanism;

(h) Side bracket for easy assembly and rotational stiffness; 

(i) Misumi B7006-DB angular ball bearings.

Source:

Re-Engineering a High Performance Electrical Series

Elastic Actuator for Low-Cost Industrial Applications

Actuators 2017, 6, 5; doi:10.3390/act6010005

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/            312643139_Re-Engineering_a_High_Performance_Electrical_Series_Elastic_Actuator_for_Low-Cost_Industrial_Applications

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Low Cost Automation - Tutorials of Misumi - Case Studies

Application of Tribos Toolholder for Productivity Improvement

Case Study 33

Industrial Engineering Case Studies Collection

My suggestion to industrial engineers: 

Find 5 new engineering developments every day in elements related to facilities, products and processes in your organization and assess their use.  Best Practices in #IndustrialEngineering 

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2022/06/good-and-best-practices-in-industrial.html

Industrial engineers have to first know alternatives to produce to specification. Then ways to increase productivity of the best alternative.

Hard Milling - Productivity Improvement Using Tool Clamping Solution

A combination of toolholding used to get the most performance from its small-diameter tools.

Impact Forge in Columbus, Indiana, faced a toolholding challenge.  The shop  runs small tools at long overhang lengths on jobs that involve not just restricted tool access, but also hard material.

The application is machining  forging dies. that have been repaired through flood welding. Process engineering programmer has to develop process plan for material  with hardness reaching as high as 50 Rc.

Roughing and finishing occur on  Okuma horizontal machining centers. Roughing is done using a 1-inch diameter end mill in a setscrew holder. Finishing the fine details of the dies calling for end mills as small as 0.030 inch in diameter. Deep cavities and small relief angles for the cavity walls require a toolholder slender enough to let these small tools get close to the walls to do their work.

Slender shrink-fit toolholders were first tried. The shrink-fit holder uses thermal expansion and contraction. The holder is heated to open the bore, which then shrinks during cooling to clamp around the tool. The shrink fit’s clamping force is proportional to the amount of expansion and contraction, which is proportional to the size of the bore. As the tool holding bores are small in case of small tools, the clamping force was small. The shrink-fit holders are not able to clamp the  the tiny tools if the cutting force became too high at the high speeds used. The toolholder became the limiting factor for productivity of the machine.

Search for the solution to the problem led to the trial using  the “Tribos” system from Schunk (Morrisville, North Carolina). The proprietary tool clamping  system uses metal spring-back to clamp the tool in a way that is similar to shrink fit, except that it uses mechanical force to open the bore instead of heat. The other part of  solution was to hold the  Tribos extension within a hydraulic toolholder. The shop used “Tendo” hydraulic toolholders, also from Schunk. A hydraulic toolholder uses hydraulic pressure to deliver its force. The toolholder contains a reservoir of hydraulic fluid. By tightening a screw, the user applies pressure to this fluid, and that pressure is in turn distributed around the metal sleeve, or bush, that holds the tool’s shank. The compression of this flexible bush clamps the tool. In addition, the hydraulic fluid provides vibration damping as a secondary benefit. This damping for the tool life improvement according to shop's process planners.

The Tribos  toolholder’s bore has a natural shape that is considerably distorted from being a perfect circle. Instead, the shape has three lobes. The clamping device applies force to the toolholder to push this shape closer to being a circle and the tool can be inserted. Releasing the force then lets the toolholder spring back, concentrically clamping the tool.

With this tool clamping and holding solution, the shop was able to run one of the 0.030-inch Melin ballnose tools in 50 Rc steel at 8,500 rpm, 20 ipm and 0.003-inch depth of cut.  The parameters were used and productivity improved substantially.


https://www.mmsonline.com/articles/hard-milling-with-tandem-toolholding


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MAPAL HiTECO CO., Ltd.

https://www.productivity.com/

T/R Module - Transmitter - Receiver Module

30.5 2021

Evolutionary Trends in Transmit/Receive Module for Active Phased Array Radars

Somsing Rathod,, K. Sreenivasulu, K.S. Beenamole, and K.P. Ray

DRDO-Electronics and Radar Development Establishment, Bengaluru - 560 093, India, 

DRDO-Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune - 411 025, India

https://publications.drdo.gov.in/ojs/index.php/dsj/article/download/12628/6384/

https://militaryembedded.com/radar-ew/rf-and-microwave/the-benefits-and-challenges-of-using-gan-technology-in-aesa-radar-systems

https://www.everythingrf.com/News/details/11337-qorvo-introduces-10-w-gan-based-font-end-transmit-receive-modules-for-x-band-applications

22.11.2019

https://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedias/transmit-receive-modules


The classic T/R module that made high-performance X-band phased arrays possible cost on the order of $1000 each, which prevented widespread adoption of the technology. Various efforts by DARPA have attempted to bring the price down to $100.


GaN-based Components for Transmit/Receive Modules
in Active Electronically Scanned Arrays
Mike Harris, Robert Howard and Tracy Wallace
Georgia Tech Research Institute, 925 Dalney Street, Atlanta, GA 30332
Email: mike.harris  at the rate gtri.gatech.edu
CS MANTECH Conference, May 13th - 16th, 2013, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

For  a fixed power level, a GaN MMIC can be 1/3-1/4 the size of  an equivalent power GaAs MMIC.  Raytheon has found that, if the  finished GaN wafer (including material) costs 2X that of  GaAs, but yet the GaN MMIC is 1/3-1/4 the size of the GaAs MMIC, the resulting GaN solution is only 50-66% the dollars per RF watt generated (To be checked with data in Sturdivant's book).



https://www.radartutorial.eu/08.transmitters/Transmitter%20Modules%20of%20an%20Active%20Antenna.en.html

https://www.microwavejournal.com/articles/28121-an-alternative-to-using-mmics-for-tr-module-manufacture?v=preview

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224652232_Design_of_TR_module_for_the_wideband_active_array_antenna

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02726343.2016.1158617?scroll=top&needAccess=true&journalCode=uemg20




Optimization

https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-technical-research-reports/optimization-techniques-mimo-radar-antenna-systems


https://www.hindawi.com/journals/mpe/2014/946817/


BEL facility Bengaluru

Automated Transmit/Receive Module Assembly Line consisting of die-attach & wire-bonding lines to increase the X-Band TR Modules production capacity.


T/R Module Design


T/R-module technologies today and possible evolutions
Conference Paper (PDF Available) · November 2009
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224127103_TR-module_technologies_today_and_possible_evolutions

APPLICATION NOTE
LTCC T/R X-Band Module With a Phased-Array Antenna
This application example describes the steps to design a transmit/receive (T/R) module with a 2x2 phased-array antenna operating in the 8-12 GHz frequency range. Several innovative capabilities within the NI AWR software are highlighted, including multi-technology and circuit/system co-simulation, as well as phased-array modeling.

https://www.awr.com/resource-library/ltcc-tr-x-band-module-phased-array-antenna

Updated on 30 May 2021

Published 22 November 2019

Process Parameters of Drawframe - Productivity and Quality Science

Drawframe is a very critical machine in the spinning process. It has influence on quality, especially on evenness. If drawframe is not set properly, it will result in drop in yarn strength and yarn elongation at break. The faults in the sliver that come out of drawframe can not be corrected . It will pass into the yarn. 

The factors that affect the yarn quality are 

1. the total draft 

2. no of drawframe passages 

3. break draft 

4. no of doublings 

5. grams/meter of sliver fed to the drawframe 

6. fibre length 

7. fibre fineness 

8. delivery speed 

9. type of drafting 

10. type of autoleveller 

11. autoleveller settings 

• The total draft depends upon 

1. material processed 

2. short fibre content 

3. fibre length

http://www.cottonyarnmarket.net/OASMTP/PROCESS%20PARAMETERS%20IN%20DRAW%20FRAME.pdf

Reduce Uster of Finisher DrawFrame  (In Hindi)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUZFKGxRQwo

concept of yarn irregularity: The spinning of even yarns from staple fibres is dependent on certain technical limits. The fundamental requirements for an optimum mass distribution would be the same number of fibres each having the same fineness in each having the same fineness in each section of the yarn. No present existing spinning system is in a position to produce a yarn always having the same number of fibres in the cross section. The theoretical limit of irregularity is if referred to as the limiting irregularity and can be calculated.

The index of irregularity I am characteristics without a unit which gives an indication of the degree to which the mass variations of a fibre assemble deviate from the ideal fibre distribution. In order to able to calculate the limiting irregularity of yarns spun from fibres with a high variation in fibre fineness a formula is used.

The average value for all the deviations from the mean which is expressed as a percentage of the overall mean is called percentage of Mean Deviation (PMD). This is termed U% by the Uster Company.

Coefficient of mass variation (CV %)

The coefficient of mass variation CV % is the ratio of standard deviation of mass variation divided by average mass variation. The higher the CV value is the more irregular the yarn 

Uster hairiness index: The hairiness index H corresponds to the total length of protruding fibres within the measurement field of 1cm length of the yarn .

Effect of yarn unevenness, coefficient of variation and hairiness on fabric: The yarn unevenness, coefficient of variation and hairiness may create different problem on fabric surface under consideration of major fabric properties such as fabric appearance, clear structure, good luster on fabric surface, hand feel of fabric, water absorption, abrasion resistance, fabric strength, pilling tendency and as well as other effects on dyed and printed fabric surface .

Machines used during production of a batch of blended spun yarn in an experiment:

Carding machine: Trutzschler-03

Drawframe machine: TOYOTO (DX- 10)

Simplex machine: TOYOTO (FL- 100)

Ring frame machine: TOYOTO (RX- 10).

https://medcraveonline.com/JTEFT/uster-analysis-of-cottonpolyester-blended-spun-yarns-with-different-counts.html

News

2020

Productivity and Economic Analysis

https://www.textileworld.com/textile-world/weaving-spinning/2020/10/productive-spinning-with-high-short-fiber-content/

2019

Study of the Effects of Number of Sliver Doubling in Draw Frame Sliver, Roving 

and Carded Yarn Quality

Abdella Simegnaw

Bahir Dar University, Ethiopian Institute of Textile and Fashion Technology (EITEX),

International Journal on Textile Engineering and Processes 

Vol. 5, Issue 3, July 2019

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341726167_Study_of_the_Effects_of_Number_of_Sliver_Doubling_in_Draw_Frame_Sliver_Roving_and_Carded_Yarn_Quality/link/5ed0bee145851529451b7a60/download

2018

Yarn Manufacturing Process

https://www.slideshare.net/prafullnik/yarn-manufacturing-process-drawframe

RSB-D 50 DRAW FRAME – A NEW DIMENSION IN PRODUCTIVITY, QUALITY AND OPERATION

Jun 26, 2018

https://textilevaluechain.in/in-depth-analysis/articles/textile-articles/rsb-d-50-draw-frame-a-new-dimension-in-productivity-quality-and-operation/

Process Control in Drawframe

http://textilesworldwide.blogspot.com/2018/07/process-control-in-draw-frame.html

Case Study - Improving Productivity of Spinning Mill

Industrial Engineering Case Studies Collection

The performance of an Indonesian the spinning mill is below its competitors.   Units with higher productivity have lower costs.  The mill is a  relatively modern spinning mill equipped with auto doffing in ring frames and latest autoconers with a capacity of 64,000 spindles. It is  producing 1,054 tonne per month (average Ne 23) and product-mix is equally divided between carded and combed.

The production is increased to 1,402 tons per month with in 24 months of implementing productivity consulting firm's suggestions.  The areas in which improvements are carried out include: maintenance management practices, process parameters adjustment, fine tuning of all process machinery, training and development of operators and staff, quality management, and developing KPI (key performance indicators) for increasing accountability

Maintenance management practices

The routine and preventive practices from cleaning to regular resetting were followed strictly under the supervision of consultant’s team. The cost-benefit analysis for replacement of certain items was developed and demonstrated to the team and management, and sample sets were ordered and proved that the speeds can be increased significantly.  Measures taken under maintenance management system ensured increased production, lower end breakages in ringframe and cuts in autoconer.

Process parameters adjustment

Cotton quality parameters tend to vary from lot to lot and between bales. Fixed set of process parameters can’t be employed for varying fibre quality. Process parameters needs to be adjusted periodically to process the given fibre quality. Speeds and settings appropriate to quality of incoming cotton were determined after experiments and the specified speeds and settings were used with different incoming lots.  These measures ensured better  yarn quality and less lost of production due to quality issues. 

Fine-tuning of all process machinery

Process machines were tuned based on AFIS (advanced fibre information system from USTER).  The periodical checking based on AFIS  improved performance consistency.

Training and development of Operators

Staff were trained on maintenance, quality, production and utility management practices and SOPs issued. KPIs were developed and staff were trained to monitor and discuss on a daily and weekly basis. Review meetings were held in Promoter’s presence on a monthly basis.

Quality management

The best practice is to ensure periodical checking of quality at every stage of the process with clear guidelines issued for go and no-go limits. Any abnormality in the process was arrested at the early stage.  Authority was given to the front line quality Operators to decide either to stop the process for correcting abnormalities. This single action ensured the performance of the unit improved significantly.

KPIs for increasing accountability

KPIs were developed with standards for spindle point production, utilisation, quality, yarn realisation, power consumption per kilogram of yarn produced, man power employed per 1,000 spindles and manufacturing cost per kilogram of yarn. Every individual was assigned responsibility and held accountable, performance incentive linked to the results. After a year of close follow-up, the performance culture was set in.

Results

After 24 months, Production per month in tons increased from 1052 to 1402.

Manufacturing cost per KG USD decreased from 0.85 to 0.68.

Source: https://www.texcoms.com/improving-productivity-of-spinning-mill

 

Facilities Design - S.S. Heragu - Book Information

 

2nd Edition

Preview

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=GTwPZ1RNS-UC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

4th Edition

Preview

https://books.google.co.in/books?id=GxljDAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://www.slideshare.net/AjitKumar84/chapter-13-heragu

Case Study - Productivity Benefits of Digital Twins - Stara Tractors

 

Industrial Engineering Case Studies Collection

Stara: 

Brazil-based tractor manufacturer Stara uses digital twins. 

Its tractors have IoT sensors that maintain the digital twins. The company increases equipment performance with digital twins. With real-time visibility into how its tractors operate, Stara can proactively prevent equipment malfunctions and improve asset uptime. 

The company has also leveraged the digital twin features to create new business models. IoT sensors collect data on weather conditions and soil condition. Based on that data specific to a farm area,  Stara launched a profitable new service that provides farmers with real-time insight detailing the optimal conditions for planting crops and improving farm yield. Farmers have reduced seed use by 21% and fertilizer use by 19% due to this  Stara’s service.

What the digital twin of a tractor will indicate. The improper use of the tractor. The deterioration of components.

https://stara.com.br/en/produto/telemetria-stara/

Telemetria Stara

Planning

Telemetria Stara allows the farmer to monitor and know exactly what the settings are on a particular machine. At any given time, you can check a vehicle’s path tracking, status, speed, date and time, fuel consumption, engine temperature, and machine hour meter. Telemetria Stara helps you on planning job logistics, optimizing the fleet, reducing costs, and avoiding waste and losses.

Dosage and Overlap

Through the dosage map, it is possible to identify whether the machine is applying the desired amounts, as previously planned. Through Telemetria Stara, the farmer can also monitor overlaps, avoiding the waste of input and resources, bringing additional improvements regarding sustainability.

Can High-Tech Farming Help Feed The Planet -- Stara's CEO Says Yes!

John Ward, SAPBRANDVOICE

Jan 16, 2017

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2017/01/16/can-high-tech-farming-help-feed-the-planet-staras-ceo-says-yes/

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/iots-new-constellation-stars-sap-stara-judith-magyar/

https://blogs.sap.com/2016/05/18/iots-new-constellation-of-stars-sap-and-stara-team-up-for-sustainable-agriculture/

https://www.sap.com/assetdetail/2021/02/b0d59b1e-d37d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html

https://www.sap.com/assetdetail/2018/09/e0a8ca80-1c7d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html

https://www.sap.com/assetdetail/2018/08/868846ac-177d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html

https://www.sap.com/assetdetail/2020/04/c89b44ea-d07d-0010-87a3-c30de2ffd8ff.html

https://www.precisionag.com/in-field-technologies/guidance/stara-selects-agjunction-edrive-xc-precision-steering-for-factory-integration/

https://www.digitalistmag.com/iot/2018/06/14/digital-twin-excellence-2-shining-examples-06175901/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2018/06/22/the-digital-twin-effect-four-ways-it-can-revitalize-your-business/?sh=281ad8565835

https://www.challenge.org/insights/digital-twin-technology-companies/

Watch the video in

https://www.challenge.org/insights/digital-twin-conference/

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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/redefining-manufacturing-digital-twin-maximilian-poupon/

Industrial Engineering and Digital Twins

Industrial engineers have to use digital twins in computer aided industrial engineering. Prof. Narayana Rao included digital twins as enabling technology for computer aided industrial engineering. The concept computer aided industrial engineering was presented by Narayana Rao in the 2021 Annual Conference of IISE.

Digital twins in smart farming

Cor Verdouw, Bedir Tekinerdogan Adrie Beulens, Sjaak Wolfert

Agricultural Systems, Volume 189, April 2021, 103046

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308521X20309070#!

Introducing digital twins to agriculture

Christos Pylianidis, Sjoukje Osinga, Ioannis N.Athanasiadis

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volume 184, May 2021, 105942

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168169920331471

Productivity Engineering - Smart/Intelligent/Autonomous/IoT Tractors

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2018/02/productivity-engineering.html

About Digital Twins

Digital Twins - Bibliography - DTs for Machine Tools and Machine Tool Components and Accessories

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/02/digital-twins-for-machine-tools-and.html

Digital Twin Software

https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2020/12/draft-digital-twin-software.html

Scheduling Module in MES - Manufacturing Execution System

 

MESA - MES - 11 -1997 Model

Resource allocation and status

Operations/Detailed sequencing

Dispatching production units

Product tracking and genealogy

Process Management

Labor Management

Maintenance Management

Quality Management

Performance Analysis

Data collection

Data Control

These 11 functions are given in Fig 12.2 (p.325) of Greeff & Ghoshal, 2004, https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Practical_E_Manufacturing_and_Supply_Cha.html?id=VclJ5VyC5QUC

The 11 functions are covered in SAP MES description. https://insights.sap.com/what-is-mes-manufacturing-execution-system/

In the PINpoint description of MES 10 functions are given. Maintenance Management is not there.

https://www.pinpointinfo.com/blog/10-functions-of-an-mes-system-pinpoint

More Details

1. Operations/detailed scheduling: Finite capacity scheduling (FCS) allows for accurate prediction of delivery taking into account all of the constraints of the plant including materials, machinery, labor and tooling.

(Greeff & Ghoshal, 2004, p. 245)

Benefits of Finite Capacity Planning

Real time information on lead time and throughput as opposed to theoretical data.

Actual data and what-if scenario modelling allows the organization to identify, understand, and plan to optimize (e.g., lot sizes, product grouping, and resource bottlenecks).

Optimized process change-overs and product sequencing.

Planned preventative maintenance resulting in increased production efficiency.

A reduction and leveling of inventory.

Reduced waste due to better use of ingredients with expiry dates.

Labor load leveling and identification of required skilled resources.

Accurate capable-to-promise data including realistic delivery date quotes.

The production of feasible Production Schedules which will help to improve customer satisfaction.

 Source: (Lumenia, 2016)

Resource allocation and status: guiding what people, machines, tools, and materials should do, and tracking what they are currently doing or just have done. It provides a detailed history of resources and ensures that equipment is properly set up for processing, and provides status in real time. The management of these resources includes reservation and dispatching to meet operation-scheduling objectives.

Dispatching Production Units: involves the management of the flow (routing), of materials to resources, in order to produce product. It directs workflow of production units in the form of jobs, orders, batches, lots and work orders according to production plans and detailed schedules. Dispatch information is presented in the sequence in which the work needs to be done and changes in real time as events occur on the factory floor. It has the ability to alter prescribed schedules and/or production plans on the factory floor. Additions and alterations may include material preparation and handling, and process operations such as rework, recover and salvage.

Dispatch also has the ability to control the amount of WIP at any point with buffer management. Dispatching always ensures that the best resources is automatically assigned to the right job by matching skill sets, territories, customer requirements and resource costs, ultimately decreasing costs up to 25%. It maintains all customer records in one place, including complete history of all work performed, customer communications, and notes. It can quickly and easily add new customers and work to be performed in order to track and profitably service that customer. All customer and work-related information could be imported from external databases if it already exists.

Document control: Managing and distributing information on products, processes, designs or orders, as well as gathering certification statements of work and conditions. It includes the control and integrity of environmental, health and safety regulations, and ISO information like corrective action procedures.

Product tracking and genealogy: monitoring the progress of units, batches or lots of output to create a full history of product. Product tracking allows traceability of the components and usage of the end products. Provides the visibility of work all the time and its disposition. Status number, current production conditions, and any alarms, rework, and other exceptions related to products.

Performance analysis: Comparing measured results in the plant to goals and metrics set by the corporation, customers or regulators. It provides up-to-the-minute reporting of actual manufacturing operations results as well as comparison to past history and expected result. Performance results include measurements such as resource utilization, resource availability, and product unit cycle time, conformance to schedule and performance against standards.

 Labor management: tracking and directing the use of operations personnel during a shift based on qualifications, work patterns and business needs. It provides an up-to-the-minute time frame. It interacts with resource allocation to determine optimal assignment. It tracks time and attendance reporting, as well as indirect activities such as material preparation or tool room work as a basis for activity-based-costing.

Maintenance management: Planning and executing appropriate activities to keep equipment and other capital assets in the plant performing to overall goal. It maintains a history of past events or problems to help in diagnosing problems. It tracks and directs the activities to maintain the equipment and tools to ensure the availability for manufacturing and gives alarm to immediate problems.

Process management: directing the flow of work in the plant based on planned and actual production activities. Process management monitors production and corrects automatically or provides decision support to operators for correcting and improving in-process activities. These activities are inter-operational and focused mainly on machines.

It tracks the process from one operation to the next and may include alarm management to inform the factory personnel. Process management provides interfaces between intelligent equipment and MES through data collection/acquisition.

Quality management: recording, tracking and analyzing product and process characteristics against engineering ideals. It provides real-time analysis of measurements collected from manufacturing to ensure/assure correct product quality control and identifies problem. It recommends action to correct the problem, correlating the symptom, actions and results to determine the cause. Quality management include SPC/SQC tracking, management of off-line inspection operations and analysis of laboratory information management systems (LIMS).

Data collection/acquisition: monitoring gathering and organizing data about the process, materials and operations from people, machines or control. The data are collected from the factory floor manually or automatically from equipment in an up-to-the-minute time frame. It provides an interface link to obtain the intra-operational production and parametric data which populate the forms and records related to production unit.

 

Source: (Greeff & Ghoshal, 2004)

Practical E-Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management

By Gerhard Greeff, Ranjan Ghoshal

https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Practical_E_Manufacturing_and_Supply_Cha.html?id=VclJ5VyC5QUC

https://www.syscon-intl.com/plantstar/blog/11-functions-of-mes-based-on-mesa-figure

https://www.proxia.com/en/mes-software/mes-planning

FACTIVITY APS - Shop Floor MES Module.

FACTIVITY APS provides manufacturing companies with best of breed in Advanced Planning and Scheduling Software. We provide the information systems to extend your ERP system to the factory floor. Our optimization scheduling logic can evaluate multiple contraints almost instantaneously. It will take into account the best machine from a group, it will consider raw material inventory, as well as, labor and tools. It can evaluate the production schedule based on current inventory levels, current sales order, as well as, from forecasts. The result is visible in both customizable Gantt and spreadsheet format and this realistic achievable schedule can then be “published” electronically to our Shop Floor MES Module.

https://factivity.com/advanced-planning-and-scheduling-mes-software/

Asprova MES: Scheduler monitor

Display Gantt charts on the shop floor or other locations, and enter reults data.

https://www.asprova.com/en/asprova/modules/asprova_mes.html

APS GAINS AGILITY WITH MES

ADVANCED PLANNING AND SCHEDULING  

The Critical Manufacturing MES collects process data that is now instantaneously available to an embedded Scheduling module. This functionality of detecting events and issues as they arise both on and off the shop-floor enables the system to create an optimum or near optimum schedule, and keep that schedule up-to-date as the situation changes.

For Industry 4.0 applications, integrated scheduling in MES must be able to handle IIoT data from CPS and CPPS, to manage the on-the-fly changes that might occur. Ensuring scheduling is truly dynamic and fully integrated into the manufacturing operations flow will be essential to success with Industry 4.0.

Critical Manufacturing MES with integrated Scheduling provides you with:

Ability to quickly submit acceptable and satisfactory scheduling scenarios;

Ability to cope efficiently with problems characterized by a large number of restrictions and with a high number of operations, to provide good solutions in time to be effective;

Advanced mechanisms to quantitatively evaluate the quality of the solutions;

Multi-criteria schedule optimization;

Capacity to improve overall indicators (such as minimizing preparation time or maximizing energy efficiency) and simultaneously deal with local optimizations, (i.e. in each work center).

The integration of Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) functionalities, together with an experience of planners, make the scheduling activity more fruitful. Either one of them - when employed separately - is still useful, but they provide true value when put in action together, as the integration enables the team to:

Avoid Master Data duplication;

Always consider the real-time status of the shop floor in the schedule;

Include all planned shop-floor activities managed by other MES modules;

Use scheduling or dispatching in different areas of the shop floor;

Eliminate the need to maintain an interface between the MES and scheduling.

INTEGRATED SCHEDULING - HOW IT WORKS

With Scheduling natively integrated into the Critical Manufacturing MES your facility can improve on-time performance, make realistic order promises, optimize for mix and volatility and gain agility to respond to the market.

GENERATE MASTER DATA

1. Define the factory model

2. Load the orders/materials and equipment

GENERATE SCHEDULE

1. Define the optimization criteria

2. Generate schedule

FINE TUNE SCHEDULE

1. View generated schedule

2. Make manual adjustments

3. Optionally, regenerate schedule

4. Release schedule

EXECUTE THE SCHEDULE

1. Each resource will be configured to use dispatch lists or scheduling information

https://www.criticalmanufacturing.com/en/critical-manufacturing-mes/scheduling

The Production Planning & Scheduling module of Shopfloor-Online MES Software

Still using spreadsheets for day-to-day production scheduling? With a production scheduling software, planners can visualise the plan in real-time, whilst optimising capacity and resources accurately.

The Production Planning & Scheduling module of Shopfloor-Online MES Software is the ideal solution to: 

Create production orders manually or download from the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system

Sequence production orders on production lines/processes

Identify line and machine changeovers, tool changes and material changes 

Schedule start and end dates based on master data like cycle time and order quantity

Assess manufacturing capacity and ability to meet order deadlines

Communicate the production schedule to the shop floor

Get real-time feedback on the schedule as production executes

Avoid the burden of a heavy finite capacity scheduling system

https://www.lighthousesystems.com/mes-software/production-scheduling

An MES Is Essential For Production Scheduling

you want to implement an MES system and production scheduling software for your business, you can contact  Prodsmart as they can assist you with this. 

https://prodsmart.com/blog/2020/11/30/how-is-mes-essential-for-production-scheduling/

MES ESSENTIAL TOOL #7: PRODUCTION SCHEDULING

Like other MES software tools, production scheduling software simplifies planning and monitoring of production and streamlines communication with all members of the team. It’s time to say goodbye to the spreadsheet and embrace this performance-enhancing tool in your plant.

https://www.vertech.com/blog/mes-essential-tool-7-production-scheduling

What is Industrial Engineering? YouTube Videos

What is Industrial Engineering?

Industrial engineering is human effort engineering and system efficiency engineering.

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Now the video has 2500+ views 27 May 2021

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Note: Industrial engineers make production systems or business systems more profitable by making them more efficient. 

Plans utilization of facilities, equipment, materials, and personnel to improve efficiency of operations: Studies functional statements, organization charts, and project information to determine functions and responsibilities of workers and work units and to identify areas of duplication. Establishes work measurement programs and analyzes work samples to develop standards for labor utilization. Analyzes work force utilization, facility layout, and operational data, such as production costs, process flow charts, and production schedules, to determine efficient utilization of workers and equipment. Recommends methods for improving worker efficiency and reducing waste of materials and utilities, such as restructuring job duties, reorganizing work flow, relocating work stations and equipment, and purchase of equipment. Confers with management and engineering staff to implement plans and recommendations. May develop management systems for cost analysis, financial planning, wage and salary administration, and job evaluation.

Source: Youtueb page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYoyxEtEgRg
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More videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agF1ZDMNo6g

10 minute video

Jill Nagel

Deloitte Consulting

Note: People engineering

Making each component more efficient and make system more efficient

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB5mTKsqvMs

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Ud 27 May 2021

Pub 4.2.2012

New Scheduling Algorithm Substantially Improves Foundry Productivity - 2017

Case Study 29 of Industrial Engineering ONLINE Course

Industrial Engineering Case Studies Collection

2017

Batesville Products Inc. (BPI) is a job shop operating an aluminum/zinc foundry, polishing, and machine shop. It is Located in Southeast Indiana and currently has 87 employees. As, it was felt that there were problems in scheduling of permanent mold casting operations leading to lower production,  BPI invited a Purdue Industrial Engineering graduate student to lead a project to develop a more optimal schedule for the foundry.

After studying and modeling the operations, its processes, and the associated cost, the Purdue engineering student developed a multi-objective heuristic algorithm to produce a scheduling tool for BPI. The technology factored in the routing of material/semi-products, setup times, cycle times, resource utilization, temperature, and gas level to identify the best scheduling method. Implementing the  "scheduling model optimizer” and its proposed schedule, resulted in  increased pounds poured by worker hours and decreased the  time required to meet due dates. The schedule provided time for maintenance and equipment uptime also increased. The stable and feasible schedules also reduced the number of foundry rejects by half. The economic impact of these improvements has been positive.

RESULTS
Production supported sales growth target of 18%
Reduced foundry rejects by 50%
Improved labor and inventory management, equipment uptime and maintenance
Improved productivity by 30%
Minimized the completion time to meet due dates

https://www.nist.gov/mep/successstories/2017/scheduling-model-substantially-improves-foundry-productivity

Scheduling injection molding operations with multiple resource constraints and sequence dependent setup times and costs

Satyaki Ghosh Dastidar, Rakesh Nagi

Department of Industrial Engineering, University at Buffalo (SUNY), 342 Bell Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA

Computers & Operations Research 32 (2005) 2987–3005

A Production Planning Model for Make-to-Order Foundry Flow Shop with Capacity Constraint

MPE 2017

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/mpe/2017/6315613/

IUPI-Nova Molding Machine

https://www.m-ep.co.jp/en/pdf/product/iupi_nova/molding.pdf

Accompanies Lesson 29 Harrington Emerson - A Pioneer Industrial Engineer - His Principles and Practices

Ud 27 May 2021

Pub 15 June 2020

Productivity and IE in Screw, Nut, and Bolt Manufacturing

https://ronenmachine.en.made-in-china.com/product/PCExpWRHunUK/China-High-Productivity-M11-M12-M13-M14-Aluminum-Hex-Coupling-Nut-Hex-Bolt-and-Nut-19b-6s-Nut-Making-Machine.html

Productivity in the nuts and bolts industry, 1958-90

Manufacturing techniques, technologies 

The manufacture of bolts and screws involves a series of steps that can be performed either by a 

number of specialized machinrs or by a single piece of machinery called a boltm,&cr.‘5 A metal 

wire or rod is first cut into blanks abut the size of the finished bolt or screw. Thesc TLT&. are then 

fed into die presses that form the hea.~~ “of :L:.E, bolt or screw. Next, the modified blanks ZE i!tirr.~med to the correct length, pointed, and threaded. Finally, the products are heat treated and then gal”~- nized or plated.

During the late 1970’s and throughout the 1980’s, new generations of boltforming machinery were gradually adopted by the industry. In contrast to older machines, these models operate at 

much higher speeds, typically producing two to three times the number of bolts per hour as their 

predecessors. I6 

They also pro duce more precise products, which reduces the need for metalcutting operations to achieve specified tolerances. Less maintenance is also required on these machines, because they use high-strength carbon-steel pans.” 

Productivity gains registered by the industry since the late 1970’s, however, did not stem entirely 

from the introduction of new machinery.‘* In 1989, the average age of production machinery 

used in the industry was still about 25 yearsI Changes in production processes, retrofitting 

older machinery, and the introduction of statistical process-control techniques also contributed 

to gains in output per employee hour. In some cases, significant reductions in unit labor requirements were achieved by changing the manufacturing process from one in which products were passed from one fabrication stage to the next in batches to a process in which a single operator was responsible for all the functions needed to produce a particular product (called inline processing).20 

In other cases, older production machinery was retrofitted with computerass&d %wices to reduce material-handling cperssicn~ and improve machine-operating speee,. ’ * ” 81,. addition, the introduction of statistical process-control techniques has increased machinery utilization rates and product quality 

in many instances, while reducing the need for quality control inspectors.22 

Other factors contributing to productivity gains, particularly during the 1980’s, were the 

increasing use of computer-aided design and engineering technologies,23 better control of inventories and orders,i4 changes in work rules,25 and the automation of certain office functions, such 

as payroll and accounts payable and receivable. Indicative of the increased use of computers in 

the industry in a variety of areas, such as offtce function:, ratanufacturing processes, and inventory 

control, anliisdl investments in computers more than quadrupied between 1977 and 1987. In current-dollar terms, the industry spent $1600,000 for computer eqrGs:inent in 1977, or 1.7 percent of 

total capital equ’pment expenditures that year. In 1987, computer expenditures totaled $7,200,000, 

or 5.8 percent of capital expenditures.

https://www.bls.gov/mfp/mpras92.pdf

5S LEAN MANUFACTURING

Rolled Threads management has a strong commitment to continuously improving company processes and procedures to ensure the satisfaction of our customers. Lean management allows us, taking the customer’s point of view, to identify what is of value and then analyze all of our processes and eliminate anything that doesn’t add value. The active elimination of non value-added waste allows us to accelerate the flow of both materials and administrative information, providing our customer with their product cheaper, faster, and with higher quality than our competitors. This approach also allows us the flexibility to better respond to customers’ changing needs.

As the core of our lean journey, Rolled Threads uses the “5S” system. Sorting, Straightening, Shining, Scheduling, and Sustaining has allowed us to improve quality and productivity while propelling us toward our goal of becoming model suppliers for our customers. This system also allows our greatest resource, our employees, to get actively involved in finding creative ways to improve our business and their workspace through Kaizen events and daily implantation of 5S.
http://www.rolledthreads.com/aboutus/news/5s-lean-manufacturing

Diamond Fasteners  offers vendor managed inventory
http://www.diamondfasteners.com/blog/bid/326571/How-to-Save-Money-on-Aircraft-Nuts-and-Bolts

History of the bolt
http://www.nord-lock.com/bolted/the-history-of-the-bolt/




Manufacturers


https://www.anixter.com/north-america/us/en/expertise/fastener-manufacturing.html

Lakshmi Precision Screws Ltd.
http://www.lpsindia.com/lps.pdf

Ud 27 May 2021

pub 20 Feb 2014

Productivity and IE in Spring Manufacturing

2012
Increasing Productivity by Reducing Manufacturing Lead Time through Value
Stream Mapping

Renu Yadav, Ashish Shastri, Mithlesh Rathore
Mechanical Department, MPCT, Gwalior (M.P.)

Rail Spring Karkhana is the largest and only dedicated coil spring manufacturing unit of Indian railways. It was set up in 1989 on a turnkey basis by M/S Ernst Komrowski & Co, Germany, a leading spring manufacturing of Germany.

Having a turn over of 49 crore , the plant has state of art manufacturing facilities springs from hot rolled spring steel bars. The plant is capable of manufacturing spring with wire diameter up to 60 mm. The plant manufactures 90000-100000 springs per annum.

http://www.interscience.in/IJMIE_Vol1Iss3/paper6.pdf

2011

Productivity Improvement in Heavy Parabolic Leaf Spring Manufacturing Unit in India by minimizing the rejection  

Pratesh Jayaswal1

, Arun Singh Kushwah*2 

1Reader & Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering 

Madhav Institute of Technology & Science,Gwalior, India  

2Research Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering 

Madhav Institute of Technology & Science, Gwalior, India 

http://rspublication.com/ijeted/nov%20pdf%2011/9.pdf

Machinery

http://www.asahiseiki-mfg.co.jp/english/products/page03.html

Ud 27 May 2021

Pub 20.2.2014

Digital Twin Software

Digital Twin Software

Digital twin software provides a virtual representation or simulation of a physical asset and is used to monitor the performance of the asset in real-time. These tools are used to simulate performance, predict potential maintenance needs, and ultimately optimize the asset for peak performance. 

Digital Twin Consortium Membership Approaches 150

Autodesk, GE Digital, and Northrop Grumman join Ansys, Lendlease, and Microsoft as founding members

BOSTON, MA – OCTOBER 6, 2020

https://www.digitaltwinconsortium.org/press-room/10-06-20.htm

Top 10 in Digital Software

https://meticulousblog.org/top-10-companies-in-digital-twin-market/

GE Digital Twin - Predix

Twins are developed incrementally, guided by business value and development cost.  Digital Twins are developed choosing sensing, data and modelling strategies with capabilities, system coverage and fidelity that are achievable and required by value-added applications.  Digital Twin models include all necessary aspects of the physical asset or larger system including thermal, mechanical, electrical, chemical, fluid dynamic, material, lifing, economic and statistical.

GE’s Digital Twins can run on several industrial Cloud platforms such as AWS and Microsoft Azure. Digital Twins are built with our physical domain expertise at its core, blending digital and physical in a combination of data from the blueprints of physical assets and physical and virtual sensors on the assets themselves.

Aerospace

How Digital Twin is transforming the aerospace industry

GE90 Engine

For the GE90 engine,  that flies on the larger, long-range Boeing 777 aircraft, we created a Digital Twin to look specifically at the maintenance of an aircraft engine blade. Over time, blades can experience what the aviation industry terms as “spallation,” in which materials begin to erode from the part. This is more prevalent in places like the Middle East, in which planes encounter sandy conditions. Digital Twins better predict how a blade will degrade over time, so that  customers are informed on the right time to bring it in for maintenance before a problem occurs."

https://www.ge.com/research/offering/digital-twin-creation

https://www.ge.com/digital/blog/digital-twins-bridge-between-industrial-assets-and-digital-world

A Digital Twin Approach for Designing Cost-effective Maintenance Strategies

Sarah Lukens, Data Scientist, Asset Performance Management, GE Digital

Introduction

Industry professionals responsible for managing assets are faced with numerous challenges in designing cost-effective maintenance strategies for equipment. Intelligent approaches for identifying optimal processes and systems for managing assets ideally combine data-driven modeling of known degradation mechanisms with field expertise of asset performance and plant operations. 

https://www.ge.com/digital/blog/digital-twin-approach-designing-cost-effective-maintenance-strategies

Azure Digital Twins

Azure Digital Twins is an Internet of Things (IoT) platform that enables you to create a digital representation of real-world things, places, business processes and people. Gain insights that help you drive better products, optimise operations and costs and create breakthrough customer experiences.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/services/digital-twins/#features

Pushing the boundaries of renewable energy production efficiency with Azure Digital Twins

Doosan - South Korea Use Case

Using data to drive efficiency

“To maintain our competitive edge and increase energy efficiency, we need to optimize turbine operations through data analysis and gather feedback to develop and test advances in wind turbine development,” says Jang. “We created solutions with Azure Digital Twins, IoT Hub, and Bentley iTwin to make that possible by combining data from multiple sources into actionable insights.”

https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/848311-doosan-manufacturing-azure-digital-twins

Siemens

Digitalization in industry: Twins with potential

The digital twin is a virtual representation of a product, production process, or performance. It enables the individual process stages to be seamlessly linked. This creates a consistent improvement in efficiency, minimizes failure rates, shortens development cycles, and opens up new business opportunities. It creates a lasting competitive edge.

Developing digital twins calls for powerful software systems that can implement them along the whole value chain – for planning and designing products, machines, and plants and operating products and production systems. 

Overview of benefits

The digital twin of the product is created as early as the definition and design stage of a planned product. This allows engineers to simulate and validate product properties depending on the respective requirements: for example, is the product stable, and is it intuitive to use? Does the car bodywork offer the lowest possible air resistance? Do the electronics operate reliably? Whether it involves mechanics, electronics, software, or system performance, the digital twin can be used to test and optimize all of these elements in advance.

In the case of digital twin of production, it involves every aspect, from the machines and plant controllers to entire production lines in the virtual environment. This simulation process can be used to optimize production in advance with PLC code generation and virtual commissioning. As a result, sources of error or failure can be identified and prevented before actual operation begins. Even highly complex production routes can be calculated, tested, and programmed with minimal cost and effort in a very short time. 

The digital twin of performance is constantly fed with operational data from products or the production plant. This allows information like status data from machines and energy consumption data from manufacturing systems to be constantly monitored. In turn, this makes it possible to perform predictive maintenance to prevent downtime and optimize energy consumption. At the same time, data-driven knowledge about systems like MindSphere – the open, Cloud-based IoT operating system from Siemens – can be fed back into the entire value chain all the way to the product system. This generates a completely closed decision-making loop for the continuous optimization process.

https://new.siemens.com/global/en/company/stories/industry/the-digital-twin.html

IBM

https://developer.ibm.com/technologies/iot/articles/what-are-digital-twins/

https://www.ibm.com/in-en/products/digital-twin-exchange

https://developer.ibm.com/technologies/iot/articles/digital-twins-and-the-internet-of-things/

Rockwell Automation - Emulate3D  Dynamic Digital Twin Software

Emulate3D develops Dynamic Digital Twin software for virtual commissioning, throughput simulation, and industrial demonstration

Emulate3D engineering software reduces the risks associated with your automation investments

https://www.demo3d.com/

Dynamic Digital Twin Software

Digitally Bringing Your Mechanical Designs to Life

Expand what’s possible in the design and performance of your machines using Emulate3D™ digital twin software. See how your machine runs before parts are ordered. Discover controls issues before you go on site. And transport plant personnel to a virtual world where they can train on systems without consequence, predict future performance and simulate line changes.

https://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-in/products/software/factorytalk/designsuite/emulate.html

Simio Digital Twin Software - Simio

www.simio.com.

Simio Simulation Software can be used for Digital Twin where a virtual copy, or software model, of a physical entity is created. The entity may involve processes, ...

AVEVA MES coupled with SIMIO Scheduling Software

https://www.aveva.com/en/products/production-scheduling-software/

Find out today how Simio Simulation and Scheduling Software can benefit you through in the application of Digital Twin technology.

https://www.simio.com/applications/industry-40/Digital-Twin.php

Oracle IoT Cloud Digital Twin

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/iot-cloud/iotgs/learn-oracle-iot-digital-twin.html

Interesting information.

The digital twin capabilities of an IoT platform depend on its design and implementation. The digital twin framework can be implemented in two ways:

Simple device models: In this method, you create and use a JSON     (https://knols-cse.blogspot.com/2021/05/about-json.html)  document that stores the following information about a machine:

Name, serial number, and location

A set of observed attributes that the machine's sensors observe (for example, the current speed of the machine)

A set of desired attributes that the IoT application can set (for example, the desired speed of the machine)

In this method, you use the attributes of the machines that its sensors capture. This method works best in situations where the sensors may not be continually available, or when communication with the sensors takes place asynchronously.

Industrial twins: In this method, information about the design of a machine is first stored as the digital twin. The information represents the physics-based properties of the machine. The information is obtained from product lifecycle management (PLM) tools. In this type of implementation, you can represent the physical attributes and design information of the machine. The real-time data of a machine is further obtained through sensors. 

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Digital twin software Links

Interested in Digital Twins? | Improve your Design Process

www.altair.com/digital-twins

Identify technical risks early and focus on an alternative solutions with digital twins. Download our white paper for help to convert empirical into physical knowledge. Multiphysics. Optimized Systems. Digital Twins.

Best Digital Twin Software in 2020 | G2 

https://www.g2.com/categories/digital-twin#:~:text=Digital%20twin%20software%20provides%20a,the%20asset%20for%20peak%20performance.

Digital Twin Software Platforms Provider - Pratiti Technology 

www.pratititech.com › digital-twin-software-platforms

Aug 14, 2020 - The concept of digital twins represents the fusion of physical and virtual worlds, and every industrial product will get a dynamic digital ...

Digital Twin | Siemens - Siemens PLM 

www.plm.automation.siemens.com

Digital Twin ... A digital twin is a virtual representation of a physical product or process, used to understand and ...

SAP Digital Twin Software & Technology  

A digital twin is a virtual representation of a physical object or system – but it is much more than a high-tech lookalike. Digital twins use data, machine learning, and ...

https://www.sap.com/india/products/supply-chain-management/digital-twin.html

Digital Twin | GE Digital

www.ge.com › digital › applications › digital-twin

Digital Twin is most commonly defined as a software representation of a physical asset, system or process designed to detect, prevent, predict, and optimize ...

Digital Twin Physics-Based Simulation & Analytics | Ansys

www.ansys.com › Products › Systems

See how digital twins created with Ansys physics-based simulation optimize device and system operations, reduce downtime and enable virtual solutions tests.

Digital Twin Software Solutions - Lanner Group

www.lanner.com › en-us › solutions › digital-twin

Digital Twins. Lanner's digital twin technology connects your physical world assets, processes and consumable resources into a single digital solution that delivers ...

20 digital twins solution providers - Dashdevs

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Nov 17, 2019 - They've created the Siemens Digital Enterprise Suite that can coordinate integrated software and automation solutions for industrial companies ...

Digital Twin | CONTACT Software

www.contact-software.com › digital-product-application

Establish the digital twin as a database for all IoT business processes. The digital twin is the virtual counterpart of a physical object in the field in its current state.

Digital Twin Technology Software | iTwin | Bentley Systems

www.bentley.com › products › product-line › itwin

iTwin Service provides an open, scalable platform for infrastructure digital twins. The set of cloud services enables organizations to create, visualize & analyze ...

Simio Digital Twin Software | Simio

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Simio Simulation Software can be used for Digital Twin where a virtual copy, or software model, of a physical entity is created. The entity may involve processes, ...

Plant simulation software IDEAS Digital Twin - ANDRITZ 

Groupwww.andritz.com › products-en › group › automation

ANDRITZ' Metris Digital Twin technology has evolved as an important building block of today's Digital Transformation, unfolding the combined power of data ...

What is a Digital Twin | IBM

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A digital twin is a virtual representation of a physical object across its lifecycle. It uses real-time data to enable understanding, learning and reasoning.

Digital Twin | FlexSim

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What is a digital twin? It's a software model that mimics a real-world system—taking data from the actual system, simulating how the processes will behave using ...

Digital Twin Platform for Optimized Product Performance | Altair

www.altair.com › digital-twin

At the core of our digital twin integration platform is foundational software for executing twins in production and connecting them to real-world data in real-time.

How the world's 250 Digital Twins compare? Same, same but ...

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Apr 29, 2020 - The 250 classifications of Digital Twin technology - Our analysis of 30+ ... of a physical system or alternatively just one software element of that ...

Blog – digital twin – AnyLogic Simulation Software

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... topics, grouped by keyword, and a wealth of valuable simulation modeling information. A window into the world of AnyLogic simulation software. – digital twin.

Prespective Digital Twin Software: Merging virtual & physical ...

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Welcome to the most advanced Unity Based Digital Twin Software Platform for the industry. Learn more about us and try us for free 30 days!

Digital Twins | Microsoft Azure

azure.microsoft.com › Home › Products

Learn more about Azure Digital Twins, a spatial intelligence solution that uses analytics and digital simulation to build smarter spaces.

Developer‎: ‎Microsoft Corporation

The World Of Digital Twins - Cityzenith - The world's most ...

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Digital Twins are virtual replicas of buildings, infrastructure and physical ... The platform also comes complete with its own SDK (software development kit), ...

The Digital Twin | Future Facilities

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Armed with a built-in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) engine, the Digital Twin understands cooling and airflow like no other software tool. Ultimately, you ...

Dynamic Digital Twin Software | Rockwell Automation

www.rockwellautomation.com › ... › DesignSuite

Expand what's possible in the design and performance of your machines using Emulate3D™ digital twin software.

Digital Twin Builder - ScaleOut Software

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To keep application development fast and easy, the ScaleOut Digital Twin Builder enables digital twin models to be constructed using standard, object-oriented ...

Enterprise Digital Twin software solutions for industrial ...

cosmotech.com › enterprise-digital-twins

The Enterprise Digital Twin is a new class of software that models and simulates your organization's demands and constraints at every level. By building a digital ...

Digital Twin Use Cases in the Industrial Enterprise | PTC

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The groundwork for digital twin has been laid through digital thread and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology. Coupled with increasingly powerful analytics ...

Digital Twin | Robert Bosch Engineering & Business Solutions ...

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Creating a Unified Digital Enterprise. ... Digital Twin Core Software creates models of the asset to identify problem areas, weaknesses, and failures ...

Digital Twins for the Built Environment | IES

www.iesve.com › digital-twins

Digital twins are an essential tool in addressing the current climate crisis. In the built environment, a live digital twin of a physical building responds and behaves ...

Digital Twin Core | Aras | Enterprise PLM Software

www.aras.com › capabilities › applications › digital-twi...

Digital Twins for any Asset in any Industry. Digital Twin Core enables the modeling, adapting, and extending of configurations for any asset, system of assets, in ...

Definition of Digital Twin - Gartner Information Technology ...www.gartner.com › information-technology › glossary

The implementation of a digital twin is an encapsulated software object or model that mirrors a unique physical object, process, organization, person or other ...

Digital Twin | Avolution

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ABACUS provides the data-integration and modeling platform which allows your team to create a dynamic software model of your organisation – a “digital twin” ...

Eclipse Ditto 1.0: A framework for digital twin builders

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Since 2015 he holds the position of Lead Software Developer of the Bosch IoT Things cloud service, and since 2017 he is Committer and Project Lead of the ...

Digital Twin Solutions | Emerson IN

www.emerson.com › automation › dynamic-simulation

Emerson's portfolio of digital twin solutions delivers that foresight through dynamic simulation software that models physical environments, enabling you to ...

Making your asset smarter with the digital twin - DNV GL

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The digital twin leverages your existing investment in enterprise asset management and design software by linking directly to this information and delivering it to ...

What Is a Digital Twin? - MATLAB & Simulink - MathWork

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Learn how digital twins work and how you can use MATLAB and Simulink to create ... Tata Steel Saved 40% on Cooling Towers Through Software Algorithms.

Digital twin: simulation in operation and condition monitoring ...

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Build digital twins with the aid of Ansys expertise, and help reduce maintenance ... PTC simulates engineering solutions with digital twins using ANSYS software.

Digital Twin software gets an update – PES Media

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Jul 16, 2020 - An array of new and enhanced functionality keeps the latest digital twin software from Hexagon at the forefront of Industry 4.0 Smart Factory ...

About Xcelgo | Digital Twin modelling and virtual ...

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At Xcelgo we develop innovative software for Digital Twin modelling and virtual commissioning of automation systems and provide the necessary service and ...

Digital Twin for Asset Integrity Management | Vidya Technology

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Aug 20, 2020 - Vidya Software is a Digital Twin technology for industries who needs more control over the integrity of industrial assets.

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GoAigua digital twin software in Valencia | Aquatech

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Dec 9, 2019 - Valencia: a proving ground for Digital Twins? GoAigua recently gave us a demonstration of its Digital Twin software and here's our thoughts.

3D Engine For The Digital Twin - Awsstaticd1.awsstatic.com › IoT › assets

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digital twins to your business users fast. Vertex Software's cloud-based, digital twin platform fuels team collaboration by unlocking 3D data and providing aligned ...

Aras Software Creates and Manages Digital Twins ...

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Aug 6, 2020 - Aras, platform provider for digital industrial applications, has announced the release of a new application, Digital Twin Core, adding to the set of ...

Digital Twin - Dassault Systèmes

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Manufacturing Excellence through Virtual Factory Replication. This paper introduces the concept of a “Digital Twin” as a virtual representation of what has been ...

ScaleOut Software Announces Digital Twin Streaming Service ...

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May 19, 2020 - ScaleOut Software today announced the general availability of its Digital Twin Streaming Service™, a breakthrough SaaS solution harnessing ...

Updates to NCSIMUL Digital Twin Software | Hexagon ...

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May 5, 2020 - An array of new and enhanced functionality keeps the latest digital twin software from Hexagon at the very forefront of Industry 4.0 Smart ...

4 Top Digital Twin Solutions Impacting The Shipbuilding Industry

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Digital Twins allow for integration across a ship's components into one piece of software, constantly gathering data in real-time from sensors, Internet of Things ...

Industry 4.0 and the Power of the Digital Twin - Maplesoft

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See how early adopters are already benefitting from Digital Twins. ... actuators and control software provide significant opportunities for flexible manufacturing, ...

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Digital Twin | Etteplan | Etteplan

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Digital twin can speed up your lead times and reduce risks in product development, production, after market, and software testing. Read more.

Digital twin – AVEVA

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Digital Twins are a replica of the digital world. AVEVA ... AVEVA enables a lifecycle approach to Digital Twins ... The Schneider Electric industrial software business and AVEVA have merged to trade as AVEVA Group plc, a UK listed company.

Industry 4.0 and the digital twin - Deloitte

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PHYSICAL PROCESS. DIGITAL TWIN. CREATE. COMMUNICATE. Communication interfaces. MES software. CAD models. ERP system. Actuators. (hydraulic,.

How Digital Twin and Analytics Improve Operations, Minimize ...

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By 2020, researchers predict that companies using digital twins of IoT-connected assets will achieve gains of up to 25%. What if we showed you how a ...

Digital Twin: SAP introduces a cloud solution for digital twins

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New software is to make physical inspections superfluous. SAP's broadly digitalized system management aims to improve operating efficiency.

Why Your Products Should Be Designed As Digital Twins ...

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Empowering your engineering data by creating a digital twin can provide the edge you need. ... Use your product's digital twin to assist issue diagnosis in a safe and cost ... TECHNIA Software PLM Innovation Forum 2020 – Virtual Experience.

Digital Twin of an Organization | Mavim

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Mavim offers software that facilitates the creation of a dynamic, virtual representation of an organization in its operational context – what Gartner calls a Digital ...

What is a Digital Twin and Why It Matters - Honeywell

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Digital twins are virtual copies of physical objects. They tap into the ... and stay competitive. “We are working toward the best software in this area,” Leila said.

Digital Twin Software - NECI

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Digital Twin Software. SORT BY: Featured. A to Z Z to A Brand Featured. Filter. Filters. Category. Digital Twin Software (11). Brand. AI-Tek (0). Altronic GTI Bi ...

An open source platform for digital twins? - LinkedIn

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May 6, 2019 - Digital twins are the hype of the day in industrial technology. Software companies are quick to jump on the band wagon, launching products ...

Paladin® Power Digital Twin™ - Power Analytics Corporation

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Power Digital Twin™ is a system for end users to simply monitor how the power network is performing and any variation to expected performance. The software ...

Digital twin applications - What is new | ABB

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A digital twin, a complete virtual representation of an asset, subsystem or system, provides data required for simulation, diagnostics, prediction and more.

Supply Chain Digital Twins – anyLogistix Supply Chain ...

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A digital twin represents a real-world system in virtual space and can provide many benefits. Digital twins are immediately useful and continue to provide value ...

Digital Twins vs. Building Information Modeling (BIM)

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The confusion in large part comes down to the emphasis of BIM software on physical space represented digitally and Digital Twin's early definition, a digital replica ...

Digital Twin - What is a Digital Twin and why use it?

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Combining tools like CFD, FEM, product controller and data from the real world we help you to build a Digital Twin. Official MSC Software reseller in Denmark, ...

Hardware and Software Infrastructure of Digital Twin Technology

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Apr 8, 2020 - Keywords: digital twin, digital model, big data, product lifecycle, cyber-physical system, automation, machine learning, smart maintenance.

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Design, digital twin, deploy: Altair's IoT engineering software ...

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By careful application of specialist software from Altair, new product creation and development is suddenly economically viable, and it allows IoT companies to ...

Digital Twin | SysCAD

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The phrase digital twin was coined by Dr Michael Grieves in 2002. 

SysCAD's plant simulation software has been trusted by industry experts since 1985, taking ...

Digital Twins and the Enterprise Edge | CIO

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Aug 4, 2020 - ... operations, organizations now do the heavy work in software. ... The Digital Twin Consortium, an industry group that is leading the way in this ...

Digital Twin Software - Puffer-Sweiven

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Digital Twin Software. SORT BY: Featured. A to Z Z to A Brand Featured. Filter. Filters. Category. Digital Twin Software (11). Brand. AI-Tek (0). Altronic GTI Bi ...

ASSESSInitiativeTwin(s) - ASSESSInitiative

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The decision was made to define an “Engineering Simulation Digital Twin” and not ... definition that is independent of any implementation or software tools used.

Build Digital Twins | Simul8 Simulation Softwar

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Why use Simul8 to create a digital twin of your organization? Digital twins are a hot topic. With roots in manufacturing, interest has exploded across almost every ...

The Supply Chain Digital Twin: Is It Just Another Fad?www.riverlogic.com › blog › the-supply-chain-digital-t...

Mar 4, 2020 - Simulation and modeling software allow organizations to create realistic and verifiable supply chain digital twins of their supply chains.

Maximizing Efficiencies with Digital Twins | WaterWorld

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Jul 21, 2020 - Global Omnium leveraged the 10 years of effort in building digital twin software into a set of modular applications as part of a spin-off company ...

Industry 4.0: How Digital Twins Are Reimagining Manufacturinginnovation.engie.com › digital-twin-predictive-maintenance

Apr 16, 2020 - Integrating predictive maintenance solutions, the digital twin is also able to predict future events, as the software can identify potential failures ...

Digital twin & simulation - Metrologic Group

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Apr 9, 2020 - Digital twin & simulation 2. Unparalleled Virtual Programming Software. Silma is the advanced offline programming 3D inspection software ...

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