Digital Twins Training in TIC Industry: Review and Case Study

The Testing, Inspection, and Certification (TIC) industry is the key to product safety, quality, and performance of any traditional consumer products and technology devices, any products should be tested and inspected by quality assurance experts, and comply with international product regulations and standards; and inspected by professional quality control auditors. Currently, the TIC industry is facing several challenges of manpower shortage and high demands of productivity, researchers and industries are sourcing solutions for such challenges. Digital Twin (DT) is an emerging technology embedded with Virtual Augmented Reality (VAR) devices to guide the operator in reviewing and following the operation procedures via digital platform in VAR devices like HoloLens, DT has been adopted in the automotive industry for assembling and repairing motor engines and most academic researchers focused on the manufacturing production plants but seldom in TIC training. This paper will review the feasibility of DT training adoption in the TIC industry and demonstrate a practical DT training case to share the insights and research application roadmap to address the aforementioned challenges in the TIC industry.