Trebing + Himstedt
The digital twin in practice
Digital twins will determine the factory of the future, according to the forecast. But what effort needs to be made to provide the different information of the twins for the various target groups?
Trebing + Himstedt will be focusing on the core topics of key production figures, multi-variant production, product traceability, smart maintenance and smart assets. At the trade fair stand, it will be showing a live demo of the digital twin in a practical test.
The aim is for devices such as a gearbox, a pump or a filter to be represented in a cloud with a digital twin. Various participants access this network: the manufacturer, the user and a service partner have different interests, which the digital twin serves on a shared business platform.
The practical example at the trade fair stand shows how a pump manufacturer provides its pump with data such as spare parts in the network. He keeps them up to date there. At the same time, it provides information about news such as software updates. As a user, a chemical park integrates this pump into its view of the digital twin of its system. It then adds its individual performance data, which is collected via sensors, for example the power consumption for the pumping process. Changes in the real product can therefore be documented in its virtual copy at the same time.
The service partner, in turn, gets a service provider's view of things: In addition to regular maintenance intervals, it can also be predictive parameters. For example, increasing power consumption may indicate that the pump will soon require maintenance to prevent it from breaking down. Necessary spare parts can be ordered directly via the network, as the manufacturer has already indicated which spare parts are suitable for this pump. Once the spare part has arrived, the maintenance instructions provide support during replacement, ideally even supported by smart glasses. In this way, the twin also connects all three partners as if in a center for more efficient collaboration.
The live demo therefore depicts this real and digitalized filter system, including data analytics and augmented reality for the maintenance instructions.
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