Digital Twin Testbed for Process Manufacturing

Abstract

This project had, at its core, a desire to implement and see the benefits of digital twin and mobile worker technologies. This project set out to accomplish this by upgrading existing industry practices, standards and systems to digital industry 4.0 level where they exist (historians, standard operational procedures, process control systems, etc.) and to insert digitalization where technology gaps exist (mobility, breaking down data silos, digital twinning, AI, AR, etc.). Using a simplified model such as a process test bed skid allowed for an interesting and visual way of showing what is available in the above-mentioned ways for the digital transformation of continuous process manufacturing. DMC, in collaboration with Siemens, developed a physical skid and a virtual software layer specially fitted and tailored to MxD's space and purpose to address the requirements set by RFP MxD-19-04. This system was based on similar work performed by Siemens at Process Automation World in Karlsruhe, Germany. The use cases addressed by this project were answered with a full stack of hardware and software from the Siemens product catalog mated to a custom designed tank system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 14, 2022
Accession Number
AD1182011

Entities

People

  • Leon Grossman

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Augmented Reality
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Control Systems
  • Digital Twins
  • Engineering
  • Human-Machine Interfaces
  • Instructions
  • Instrumentation
  • Lessons Learned
  • Manufacturing
  • Manufacturing Operations Management
  • Network Architecture
  • Operations Management
  • Personnel Management
  • Quality Control
  • Reliability
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • Virtual Reality

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  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

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  • Space