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Industry 4.0, cyber-physical production systems (CPPS) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are current focuses in automation and data exchange in manufacturing, arising from the rapid increase of capabilities in information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the ubiquitous internet. A key enabler for the advances promised by CPPSs is the concept of a “digital twin”- the cyber representation of the physical twin, which in this paper is a manufacturing cell. This paper presents an architecture for such a digital twin that enables exchanging data and information between a remote emulation or simulation and the physical twin. The architecture comprises different layers, including a local data layer, an IoT Gateway layer, cloud-based databases and a layer containing emulations and simulations.
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Redelinghuys, A., Basson, A., Kruger, K. (2019). A Six-Layer Digital Twin Architecture for a Manufacturing Cell. In: Borangiu, T., Trentesaux, D., Thomas, A., Cavalieri, S. (eds) Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing. SOHOMA 2018. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 803. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03003-2_32
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