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Supply chain processes are receiving considerable attention as a cutting-edge technology that will transform raw materials from material suppliers to the manufacturing and processing industries to fulfill customer requirements. However, the automobile part and body manufacturer industry faces many challenges. To cope with those challenges, digital twin (DT) strategies have been a useful tool to visualize, realize, analyze, and utilize materials and integrate raw material accessibility, product quality, and delivery service systems into the production line or entire supply chain process. Nevertheless, the development of DTs is still hampered by a number of factors, such as a lack of full understanding of the concept of DTs and problems with DT strategies in the automobile and related manufacturing industries. This study aims to explore the role of DT technology impacts on production lines in the automobile industry and entire supply chain performance. Digital supply chain twins’ roles in material utilization, the production performance and the overall supply chain capabilities were investigated in this study. The investigations shows that digital supply chain twin have a positive and direct impacts on supply chain performance in supply chain visibility, real time decision making, process optimization, value chain optimization, resource utilization and visibility in a supply chain process of automotive and body manufacturing industries. Both the primary and secondary data have been analyzed and studied using descriptive analysis, analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and Fuzzy TOPSIS tools. The relation between digital twins with resilience of digital enablers on supply chain process for sustainable supply chain process needs further study and investigations.
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Alie Wube Damtew (Ph.D.), Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering KioT Wollo University-Ethiopia -Ethiopia. He is mechanical, industrial and system engineers with a strong background in engineering fundamentals, science, and technology related fields with over 17 years of academic and professional experience creating innovative, cost-efficient designs and executing the engineering and professional activities, including designing working strategies, industry guidelines, and production procedures, developing teaching methodologies, giving students creative presentation materials, addressing students' academic needs, and evaluating students' development and progress. Prepares design sketches and assists with developing design layouts, 3D models, and drawings for a variety of components, sub-assemblies, processes, or equipment in support of projects. To foster the growth of existing and future goods, I provide leadership experience, strong organizational skills, and creative thought. Highly qualified, with the ability to conduct research and feasibility studies in areas of interest; a doctorate degree in mechanical and industrial engineering with a specialty in industrial engineering; and maintains contact with other engineering professionals to stay up to date with new principles that govern the field to be used.
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Damtew, A.W. Roles of digital twins on material performances and utilization on upstream industry (The case of automotive industry). Int J Adv Manuf Technol 130, 3525–3536 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-023-12706-1
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