Digital Twins for Energy-Efficient Manufacturing

Abstract

Some manufacturing industries consume massive energy for their manufacturing and logistics processes. The costs of manufacturing can increase significantly as the energy cost increases. Such increase amplifies the final cost of the created products on the consumers. This makes finding different approaches that utilize innovative technologies to improve energy efficiency in manufacturing extremely important. This paper investigates how digital twins can be utilized to enable improved energy efficiency in manufacturing. Different applications of digital twins for energy-efficient manufacturing are investigated. In addition, the paper discusses some challenges of utilizing digital twins for this purpose. A framework for utilizing digital twins for energy-efficient manufacturing is also discussed.