Digital Twin Driven Inclusive Manufacturing Using Emerging Technologies

Abstract

The current era of industrial advancement is known as Industry 4.0 with the adoption of digitization to integrate real and virtual world together using the cyber-physical system, internet of things, cloud computing, the blockchain, and semantic technology. A huge difference has been observed in the manufacturing environment between developed and developing countries. Still, developing countries are in the phase of achieving a target of a significant contribution from the manufacturing sector in their economy without focusing towards numerous environmental and societal concerns. A term Inclusive Manufacturing has been coined in the manufacturing domain to achieve the environmental, economic, and social factors altogether. This paper presents, a simple framework of the Inclusive Manufacturing (IM) with the concept of Digital Twin (DT) by considering various other emerging technologies. To show the inclusiveness, a simulated case study on the manufacturing of a stop valve is incorporated with a mathematical representation of societal, environmental, and economic issues.