Understanding Stakeholder Requirements for Digital Twins In Manufacturing Maintenance
Paper in proceeding, 2023

Digital twin has emerged as a key technology in the era of smart manufacturing and holds significant potential for maintenance. However, gaps remain in understanding stakeholders’ requirements and how this technology support maintenance-related decisions. This paper aims to identify stakeholders’ requirements for digital twin implementation and examine the role of digital twin in supporting maintenance actions and decision-making process. Semi-structured interviews and a workshop involving manufacturing practitioners and researchers were conducted to attain these goals. Furthermore, an in-depth qualitative analysis of the interview data was carried out. The results shed light on the current state of digital twin adoption, implementation challenges, requirements, supported decisions and actions, and future demand characteristics. By integrating the findings from the literature review and interview analysis, this study outlines the requirements for the digital twins as expressed by industry stakeholders that will be used and tested in the drone factory digital twin model.

Smart manufacturing

Maintenance engineering

Decision making

Interviews

Digital twins

Stakeholders

Production facilities

Author

Siyuan Chen

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Production Systems

Juan Pablo González Sánchez

Chalmers University of Technology

Ebru Turanoglu Bekar

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Production Systems

Jon Bokrantz

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Production Systems

Anders Skoogh

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Production Systems

Paulo Victor Lopes

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Production Systems

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

08917736 (ISSN)

2008-2019
979-8-3503-6967-0 (ISBN)

2023 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)
San Antonio, USA,

Integrated Manufacturing Analytics Platform för Prediktivt Underhåll med Iot.

VINNOVA (2021-02537), 2021-11-15 -- 2024-11-30.

Subject Categories

Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Areas of Advance

Production

DOI

10.1109/WSC60868.2023.10408657

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