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DIGITAL TWIN: FACTORY DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION

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posted on 2019-11-04, 16:30 authored by Zachary Brooks SmithZachary Brooks Smith
Industrial revolutions bring dynamic change to industry through major technological advances (Freeman & Louca, 2002). People and companies must take advantage of industrial revolutions in order to reap its benefits (Bruland & Smith, 2013). Currently, the 4th industrial revolution, industry is transforming advanced manufacturing and engineering capabilities through digital transformation. Company X’s production system was investigated in the research. Detailed evaluation the production process revealed bottlenecks and inefficiency (Melton, 2005). Using the Digital Twin and Discrete Event Factory Simulation, the researcher gathered factory and production input data to simulate the process and provide a system level, holistic view of Company X’s production system to show how factory simulation enables process improvement. The National Academy of Engineering supports Discrete Event Factory Simulation as advancing Personalized Learning through its ability to meet the unique problem solving needs of engineering and manufacturing process through advanced simulation technology (National Academy of Engineering, 2018). The directed project applied two process optimization experiments to the production system through the simulation tool, 3DExperience wiht the DELMIA application from Dassualt Systemes (Dassault, 2018). The experiment resulted in a 10% improvement in production time and a 10% reduction in labor costs due to the optimization

History

Degree Type

  • Master of Science

Department

  • Technology

Campus location

  • West Lafayette

Advisor/Supervisor/Committee Chair

Dr. Duane Dunlap

Additional Committee Member 2

Adam Marshall

Additional Committee Member 3

Edward Dreyer

Additional Committee Member 4

Weigang Hu