Digital Twin Enhanced Dynamic Job-Shop Scheduling

For dynamic scheduling, which is daily decision-making in a job-shop, machine availability prediction, disturbance detection and performance evaluation are always common bottlenecks. Previous research efforts on addressing the bottlenecks primarily emphasize on the analysis of data from the physical job-shop, but with little connection and convergence with its virtual models and simulated data. By introducing digital twin (DT), further convergence between physical and virtual spaces of the job-shop can be achieved, which greatly enables dynamic scheduling. DT fuses both real and simulated data to provide more information for the prediction of machine availability on one hand; and on the other hand, it helps to detect disturbances through comparing the physical machine with its continuously updated digital counterpart in real time, triggering timely rescheduling when needed. It also enables comprehensive performance evaluation for rescheduling using multiple-dimension models, which can describe geometric properties, physics parameters and behaviors of the machines. In the paper, a five-dimension DT for a machine in the job-shop is introduced first, then the DT-based machine availability prediction, disturbance detection and performance evaluation methods are explored. Based on this, a DT-enhanced dynamic scheduling methodology is proposed. A scheduling process of making hydraulic valves in a machining job-shop is taken as a case study to illustrate the effectiveness and advantages of the proposed method.     

Consistency retention method for CNC machine tool digital twin model

Computer Numerical Control Machine Tool (CNCMT) Digital Twin (DT) model is a carrier for complex, time-varying, coupled data of CNCMT, which can theoretically provide a time-varying high-fidelity model. However, there are still many difficulties in its implementation process. And the key issue is how to realize the updated DT model with performance attenuation and validate it. In order to solve this problem, a model consistency retention method for CNCMT DT model is studied and proposed in this paper. Firstly, the framework of consistency retention method for DT model is designed including both digital space and physical space. The principles of data management and performance attenuation update in digital space are elaborated. Then, the implementation method for consistency retention of CNCMT DT model is studied in terms of performance attenuation update workflow for wear and other damage separately. Finally, a case study for the establishment and application of high-fidelity test bench DT model that focusing on rolling guide-rail is carried out to show the implementation flow of the proposed method and verify its operability and effectiveness.     

New Paradigm of Data-Driven Smart Customisation through Digital Twin

Big data is one of the most important resources for the promotion of smart customisation. With access to data from multiple sources, manufacturers can provide on-demand and customised products. However, existing research of smart customisation has focused on data generated from the physical world, not virtual models. As physical data is constrained by what has already occurred, it is limited in the identification of new areas to improve customer satisfaction. A new technology called digital twin aims to achieve this integration of physical and virtual entities. Incorporation of digital twin into the paradigm of existing data-driven smart customisation will make the process more responsive, adaptable and predictive. This paper presents a new framework of data-driven smart customisation augmented by digital twin. The new framework aims to facilitate improved collaboration of all stakeholders in the customisation process. A case study of the elevator industry illustrates the efficacy of the proposed framework.     

Digital twin modeling method based on biomimicry for machining aerospace components

High-performance aerospace component manufacturing requires stringent in-process geometrical and performance-based quality control. Real-time observation, understanding and control of machining processes are integral to optimizing the machining strategies of aerospace component manufacturing. Digital Twin can be used to model, monitor and control the machining process by fusing multi-dimensional in-context machining process data, such as changes in geometry, material properties and machining parameters. However, there is a lack of systematic and efficient Digital Twin modeling method that can adaptively develop high-fidelity multi-scale and multi-dimensional Digital Twins of machining processes. Aiming at addressing this challenge, we proposed a Digital Twin modeling method based on biomimicry principles that can adaptively construct a multi-physics digital twin of the machining process. With this approach, we developed multiple Digital Twin sub-models, e.g., geometry model, behavior model and process model. These Digital Twin sub-models can interact with each other and compose an integrated true representation of the physical machining process. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed biomimicry-based Digital Twin modeling method, we tested the method in monitoring and controlling the machining process of an air rudder.     

Digital Twin-driven machining process for thin-walled part manufacturing

Thin-walled parts are widely used in the aerospace, shipbuilding, and automotive industry, but due to its unique structure and high accuracy requirements, which leads to an increase in scrapped parts, high cost in production, and a more extended period in the trial machining process. However, to adapt to fast production cycles and increase the efficiency of thin-walled parts machining, this paper presents a Digital Twin-driven thin-walled part manufacturing framework to allow the machine operator to manage the product changes, make the start-up phases faster and more accurate. The framework has three parts: preparation, machining, and measurement, driven by Digital Twin technologies in detail. By establishing and updating the workpiece Digital Twin under a different status, various manufacturing information and data can be integrated and available to machine operators and other Digital Twins. It can serve as a guideline for establishing the machine tool and workpiece Digital Twin and integrating them into the machining process. It provides the machine operator opportunities to interact with both the physical manufacturing process and its digital data in real-time. The digital representation of the physical process can support them to manage the trial machining from different aspects. In addition, a demonstrative case study is presented to explain the implementation of this framework in a real manufacturing environment.     

Building a right digital twin with model engineering

In recent years, the concept of digital twin (DT) is attracting more and more attention from researchers and engineers. But there is still no consensus on what a right DT is. On one hand, some common models are renamed as DTs. On the other hand, some DTs extremely pursue ‘the same’ as physical objects, which bring unnecessary complexities to them. In this paper, we try to answer two questions from the point of view of model engineering: how to define a right digital twin, and how to build a right digital twin. The concept and related technologies of model engineering are introduced. Some basic principles and a set of metrics for a right DT are given. An evolutionary concurrent modeling method for DT (ECoM4DT) is proposed not only inheriting the theory from classic M&S methods but also highlighting the characteristics of DT compared with traditional models to systemically guide the DT modeling process.     

RSA数字签名技术在信息化工程监理流程E化中的研究

提出的信息化工程监理流程的E化过程就是将监理流程通过现有的IT技术进行重新梳理、再造,达到电子化、网络化。将对在E化过程中数字签名的应用进行研究,以应对E化容易出现的伪造这一网络安全问题。主要讲述hash签名技术中单向散列函数对文件进行摘要处理,然后使用RSA公钥加密算法对摘要进行加密。也会对签名过程和验证过程给予解说。     

矿用隔爆兼本安型计算机信号隔离器设计

针对煤矿井下电气设备要求本质安全的特点,设计了一种矿用隔爆兼本安型计算机信号隔离器,主要介绍了该隔离器的硬件电路设计。该隔离器主要用于矿井中本质安全型计算机主机与外部输入输出设备的连接,能够实时地传送键盘输入的数据,具有良好的信号隔离功能和抗干扰性能。     

基于CPLD的某型导弹测角仪视频信号模拟

针对导弹检测系统的训练和计量,采用CPLD技术设计了某型导弹电视测角仪视频信号模拟系统;介绍了测角仪的视频显示方式和模拟信号产生原理,并给出了CPLD主要的内部逻辑电路和VHDL语言描述;将视频信号分解为同步信号、固定图像和可控实心圆,以行计数器和列计数器构成图像的时间基准,通过对行、列计数器的编码实现同步信号和固定图像,通过对可逆计数器及行、列计数器的运算实现可控实心圆,并对可逆计数器的数据进行编码构成变焦数据,最终精确地实现了测角仪视频信号及其变焦数据输出的模拟。     

机载塔康设备综合检查仪设计

使用市场上成熟的模块和技术研制机载塔康设备综合检查仪,以降低成本和提高设备的可靠性;根据设备的测试需求,选用嵌入式工业平板电脑、USB-ARINC429通讯卡、USB-数字IO卡、串行接口数字表和自研的塔康信号模拟器等构成检查仪硬件,使用CVI9.0编写了测试程序;应用表明:检查仪集成度高,使用方便,能够完成对塔康设备的自动及手动测试。