Digital Twin prototype to support Factory and Production Planning

At present, make-to-order production systems face layout and production planning challenges due to unpredictable and fluctuating customer demand. Traditional planning approaches are static and limited in its ability to evaluate potential " To-be " scenarios for future production scaling. Therefore, Digital Twin based factory and production planning seems to be a promising approach owing to its dynamic characteristics. Hence, this case study proposes a Digital Twin Prototype development approach for effective factory and production planning. This approach integrates assembly line balancing and digital factory planning to implement the “ what ifs ” scenarios and further lays the foundation to build simulation based Digital Twin.