Development and implementation of a Digital Twin workshop for a smoke alarm production line

To address issues such as low manual production efficiency, inability to track production status, and lack of traceability for quality defects in smoke alarm manufacturing, this paper proposes a method for constructing a digital twin workshop for smoke alarm production lines. First, through demand analysis of the smoke alarm production workshop, a digital twin workshop system architecture is established. Then, by constructing a workshop digital twin model, building the workshop information system architecture, and completing multi-source heterogeneous data collection, a virtual-physical mapping between the virtual workshop and the physical workshop is achieved. Finally, the feasibility is validated in a company's smoke alarm production workshop, demonstrating that the system can realize functions such as production progress tracking, quality control, and equipment operation monitoring. Compared to traditional transmission production, the application of this digital twin workshop significantly enhances production efficiency. Defect identification rates increased by 3.2%, product defect rates dropped significantly below 0.1%, and labor costs decreased by 96.7%.

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PLoS ONE
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2026-01-29
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0341224
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Digital Transformation in Industry
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Development and implementation of a Digital Twin workshop for a smoke alarm production line

Wenfeng Ying, Min Wu
PLoS ONE
Digital Transformation in Industry
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Development and implementation of a Digital Twin workshop for a smoke alarm production line

Wenfeng Ying, Min Wu
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To address issues such as low manual production efficiency, inability to track production status, and lack of traceability for quality defects in smoke alarm manufacturing, this paper proposes a method for constructing a digital twin workshop for smoke alarm production lines. First, through demand analysis of the smoke alarm production workshop, a digital twin workshop system architecture is established. Then, by constructing a workshop digital twin model, building the workshop information system architecture, and completing multi-source heterogeneous data collection, a virtual-physical mapping between the virtual workshop and the physical workshop is achieved. Finally, the feasibility is validated in a company's smoke alarm production workshop, demonstrating that the system can realize functions such as production progress tracking, quality control, and equipment operation monitoring. Compared to traditional transmission production, the application of this digital twin workshop significantly enhances production efficiency. Defect identification rates increased by 3.2%, product defect rates dropped significantly below 0.1%, and labor costs decreased by 96.7%.

PLoS ONEVol. 21(1)
University of Nottingham Ningbo China (CN), Ningbo Polytechnic (CN)
Openalex Percentile: Top 75%
Digital Transformation in Industry
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