Title: Emerging technologies-based and digital twin driven inclusive manufacturing system

Authors: Sube Singh; Ankit Barde; Biswajit Mahanty; Manoj Kumar Tiwari

Addresses: Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India ' Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India ' Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India ' Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India; National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai, 400087, India

Abstract: In the last few decades, several emerging technologies have come into existence, and their execution in the manufacturing sector is recognised as Industry 4.0. Always, a significant gap is observed between the developed and developing economies, especially the manufacturing aspect. Changes in the environmental and societal policies take place to meet the presumed industrial contribution. Therefore, an inclusive manufacturing system (IMS) has been proposed by immersing the sustainability factors with shifting technological advancements. This paper proposes a framework envisioning the digital twin driven manufacturing systems by incorporating a mathematical representation of inclusive manufacturing (IM) factors. A simulated case study of the manufacturing of a gate valve is presented for supporting the proposed concept.

Keywords: inclusive manufacturing; Industry 4.0; cyber-physical system; optimisation; inclusive manufacturing system; IMS; digital twin.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISM.2020.110745

International Journal of Integrated Supply Management, 2020 Vol.13 No.4, pp.353 - 375

Received: 01 Jan 2020
Accepted: 22 Mar 2020
Published online: 28 Oct 2020 *

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