Digital Twin and Big Data Towards Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0: 360 Degree Comparison

2018 IEEE Access 1,456 citations

Abstract

With the advances in new-generation information technologies, especially big data and digital twin, smart manufacturing is becoming the focus of global manufacturing transformation and upgrading. Intelligence comes from data. Integrated analysis for the manufacturing big data is beneficial to all aspects of manufacturing. Besides, the digital twin paves a way for the cyber-physical integration of manufacturing, which is an important bottleneck to achieve smart manufacturing. In this paper, the big data and digital twin in manufacturing are reviewed, including their concept as well as their applications in product design, production planning, manufacturing, and predictive maintenance. On this basis, the similarities and differences between big data and digital twin are compared from the general and data perspectives. Since the big data and digital twin can be complementary, how they can be integrated to promote smart manufacturing are discussed.

Keywords

Big dataBottleneckSmart manufacturingComputer scienceManufacturing engineeringManufacturingIntegrated Computer-Aided ManufacturingIndustry 4.0Computer-integrated manufacturingDigital transformationProcess development execution systemAdvanced manufacturingData scienceEngineeringBusinessData miningEmbedded systemWorld Wide Web

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Year
2018
Type
article
Volume
6
Pages
3585-3593
Citations
1456
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Qinglin Qi, Fei Tao (2018). Digital Twin and Big Data Towards Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0: 360 Degree Comparison. IEEE Access , 6 , 3585-3593. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2018.2793265

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10.1109/access.2018.2793265

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