Grieves, M. Digital Twin Certified: Employing Virtual Testing of Digital Twins in Manufacturing to Ensure Quality Products. Machines 2023, 11, 808, doi:10.3390/machines11080808.
Grieves, M. Digital Twin Certified: Employing Virtual Testing of Digital Twins in Manufacturing to Ensure Quality Products. Machines 2023, 11, 808, doi:10.3390/machines11080808.
Grieves, M. Digital Twin Certified: Employing Virtual Testing of Digital Twins in Manufacturing to Ensure Quality Products. Machines 2023, 11, 808, doi:10.3390/machines11080808.
Grieves, M. Digital Twin Certified: Employing Virtual Testing of Digital Twins in Manufacturing to Ensure Quality Products. Machines 2023, 11, 808, doi:10.3390/machines11080808.
Abstract
Quality products are a main focus for manufacturers. Product users only determine a product is a quality product if it performs in operation to the user’s perceived standard. Product manufactures need to take a product lifecycle quality (PLQ) perspective of quality and not simply focus on manufacturing quality control, which is more accurately specification control. Manufacturing is the key phase where products take their physical form. There are increasing costs and decreasing risk of different physical quality strategies. The information provided using digital twins and virtual testing promises to be both low risk and cost and has the potential to predict what the customer will experience in operation by testing products passively with data and actively with simulation to destruction. Digital Twin Certified (DTC) is proposed as the methodology for accomplishing this. DTC will be especially important for the adoption of additive manufacturing.
Keywords
Digital Twin; DT; Product Lifecycle Quality; PLQ; Digital Twin Certified; DTC
Subject
Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
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