Data-Driven Smart Maintenance Decision Analysis: A Drone Factory Demonstrator Combining Digital Twins and Adapted AHP

Paper in proceeding, 2023

The concept of Digital Twins has gained significant attention in recent years due to its potential for improving the performance of production systems. One promising area for Digital Twins is Smart Maintenance, enabling the simulation of different strategies without disrupting operations in the real system. This study proposes a high-level framework to integrate Digital Twins to support Smart Maintenance data-driven decision making in production lines. We implement, then, a case study of a lab scale drone factory to demonstrate how the production line performance evaluation is made under different what-if maintenance scenarios. The effects of this Smart Maintenance decision analysis approach were evaluated according to Key Performance Indicators from literature. The identified contributions are: (i) Digital Twin demonstrator focused on smart maintenance; (ii) implementation of smart maintenance data-driven decision analysis concepts; (iii) design and evaluation of what-if maintenance scenarios.