Synchronizing controlled logistics terminals between simulated and visualized production lines using an ASTAK method

In a fully automated factory, the Visualized Production Line serves as a crucial tool for assisting personnel to monitor and manage the manufacturing process. The synchronization between the visualized line and the actual production line significantly impacts the efficiency of production supervision. This article proposes a method for controlling the logistics terminals, which encompasses three steps: animation simplification, timing alignment, and keyframe synchronization (hereinafter referred to as ASTAK). This method aims to achieve precise synchronization between the Simulated Production Line and the Visualized Production Line when the process data of the simulated line is not directly accessed. Then, the experiments demonstrate that the proposed method reduces the time difference between the simulated and visualized production lines to an average of 0.08 s with a synchronization rate of 99.97%, which further verifies the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed method over some other state-of-the-art methods.