Digital Twins for Manufacturing Process and System: A State of the Art Review

Abstract

As the industry is stepping into industry, 4.0 Digital Twin Technology has been seen as the path for the implementation of virtual manufacturing for the betterment of industry to produce more efficient and reliable products with minimal modification requirements further as per need of the hour for making the product more suitable in the market. Being a rapidly growing technology there is much research work going on it at the current stage in a different form of the industry by utilizing multiple domains of IoT, data acquisition, cloud computing, model and empirical-based design process, etc. This review article will enlighten on the research work done particularly on Digital Twin Technology previously and identify gaps in the research by characterizing the technology on state of concept, terminology, and process associated with it as well as giving a brief idea about how Digital Twin Technology is beneficial to manufacturing.</jats:p