scholarly journals A Wire Rod Rolling Mill Digital Twin for the Simulation of the Rolls Replacement Process

Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Ana María Valdeón Junquera ◽  
Javier García González ◽  
Joaquín Manuel Villanueva Balsera ◽  
Vicente Rodríguez Montequín

Smart Manufacturing is a goal to be achieved, and the most advanced manufacturing approaches are being used to pursue this objective. Within this context, industry development aims to attain an intelligent manufacturing using, for example, virtual models that simulate production lines. This paper presents the architecture of a Digital Twin for emulating the rolls replacement process within a wire rod rolling mill. The model is developed in Python, using a backtracking algorithm to select the suitable set of rolls as a first basic approach for the validation of the system. It may be used in the future to improve the production system automating the decision for the replacement of rolls as alternative to the current human-decision process.

Digital Twin ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Yuchen Wang ◽  
Xingzhi Wang ◽  
Fei Tao ◽  
Ang Liu

Complexity management is one of the most crucial and challenging issues in manufacturing. As an emerging technology, digital twin provides an innovative approach to manage complexity in a more autonomous, analytical and comprehensive manner. This paper proposes an innovative framework of digital twin-driven complexity management in intelligent manufacturing. The framework will cover three sources of manufacturing complexity, including product design, production lines and supply chains. Digital twin provides three services to manage complexity: (1) real-time monitors and data collections; (2) identifications, diagnoses and predictions of manufacturing complexity; (3) fortification of human-machine interaction. A case study of airplane manufacturing is presented to illustrate the proposed framework.


2016 ◽  
Vol 870 ◽  
pp. 620-624 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.I. Platov ◽  
V.A. Nekit ◽  
N.N. Ogarkov

The thermal regime of rolling in the finishing block of stands and the cooling path after rolling largely determines the mechanical properties of the wire rod. One of the main challenges that must be addressed in the cooling design phase is reduction of temperature non-uniformity over the cross section of a wire rod. The use of adjustable cooling allows getting closer in finishing rolling mill to the regimes of the controlled rolling, thermo mechanical processing and two-phase rolling, which greatly extend the capabilities of the mill in the obtaining of high consumer properties of products. The paper presents the theory and experimental analysis of controlled cooling after rolling in the finishing rolling mill, with the aim to rise temperature heterogeneity over the cross section of the wire rod.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luyao Xia ◽  
Lu Jianfeng ◽  
Hao Zhang ◽  
Mengying Xu ◽  
Zhaojia Li ◽  
...  

Abstract Many enterprises have built their own digital twin factory model for physical factory planning, simulation optimization and real-time monitoring. However, the digital twin system, which has a single field, a short time cycle and unsinkable service, cannot fully reflect the interaction and integration of the physical and information world required by intelligent manufacturing. Therefore, the research on the construction method of the smart factory digital twin system with cross-domain and multi-model has an important influence on the application of smart manufacturing. In view of the above problems, this paper proposes the concept and composition of digital twin manufacturing ecosystem (DTMEs) based on the requirements and characteristics of product lifecycle, and analyzes the construction requirements of DTMEs for factory digital twin system, product digital twin system and supply chain digital twin system from the perspective of lifecycle. Finally, the smart factory digital twin system architecture is applied to the digital and intelligent upgrading of the hydraulic cylinder factory. The experimental results show that the intelligent improvement of the hydraulic factory, the reduction of Work-in-process inventory and the advance of delivery time, and prove the feasibility and effectiveness of the smart factory digital twin system.


Author(s):  
Fei Tao ◽  
Yongping Zhang ◽  
Ying Cheng ◽  
Jiawei Ren ◽  
Dongxu Wang ◽  
...  

Work ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Duan Pingli ◽  
Bala Anand Muthu ◽  
Seifedine Nimer Kadry

BACKGROUND: The manufacturing industry undergoes a new age, with significant changes taking place on several fronts. Companies devoted to digital transformation take their future plants inspired by the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT is a worldwide network of interrelated physical devices, which is an essential component of the internet, including sensors, actuators, smart apps, computers, mechanical machines, and people. The effective allocation of the computing resources and the carrier is critical in the industrial internet of Things (IIoT) for smart production systems. Indeed, the existing assignment method in the smart production system cannot guarantee that resources meet the inherently complex and volatile requirements of the user are timely. Many research results on resource allocations in auction formats which have been implemented to consider the demand and real-time supply for smart development resources, but safety privacy and trust estimation issues related to these outcomes are not actively discussed. OBJECTIVES: The paper proposes a Hierarchical Trustful Resource Assignment (HTRA) and Trust Computing Algorithm (TCA) based on Vickrey Clarke-Groves (VGCs) in the computer carriers necessary resources to communicate wirelessly among IIoT devices and gateways, and the allocation of CPU resources for processing information at the CPC. RESULTS: Finally, experimental findings demonstrate that when the IIoT equipment and gateways are valid, the utilities of each participant are improved. CONCLUSION: This is an easy and powerful method to guarantee that intelligent manufacturing components genuinely work for their purposes, which want to integrate each element into a system without interactions with each other.


Author(s):  
Maja Bärring ◽  
Björn Johansson ◽  
Goudong Shao

Abstract The manufacturing sector is experiencing a technological paradigm shift, where new information technology (IT) concepts can help digitize product design, production systems, and manufacturing processes. One of such concepts is Digital Twin and researchers have made some advancement on both its conceptual development and technological implementations. However, in practice, there are many different definitions of the digital-twin concept. These different definitions have created a lot of confusion for practitioners, especially small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Therefore, the adoption and implementation of the digital-twin concept in manufacturing have been difficult and slow. In this paper, we report our findings from a survey of companies (both large and small) regarding their understanding and acceptance of the digital-twin concept. Five supply-chain companies from discrete manufacturing and one trade organization representing suppliers in the automotive business were interviewed. Their operations have been studied to understand their current digital maturity levels and articulate their needs for digital solutions to stay competitive. This paper presents the results of the research including the viewpoints of these companies in terms of opportunities and challenges for implementing digital twins.


2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (12) ◽  
pp. 3920-3934 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinjiang Wang ◽  
Lunkuan Ye ◽  
Robert X. Gao ◽  
Chen Li ◽  
Laibin Zhang

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