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Cyber-physical integration for moving digital factories forward towards smart manufacturing: a survey

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The current study on digital factory (DF) meets some problems, such as disconnected manufacturing sites, independent digital models, isolated data, and non-self-controlled applications. In order to move current situation of DFs forward towards smart manufacturing, this paper attempts to present an overview of current digital situation of factories, and propose a systematical framework of cyber-physical integration in factories, with consideration of the concept of digital twin and the theory of manufacturing service. Particularly, the proposed framework includes four key issues, i.e., (a) fully interconnected physical elements integration, (b) faithful-mirrored virtual models integration, (c) all of elements/flows/businesses-covered data fusion, and (d) data-driven and application-oriented services integration. The corresponding implementable solutions of these four key issues are discussed in turn. As a reference, this paper is promising to bridge the gap in factories from current digital situation to smart manufacturing, so as to effectively facilitate their smart production.

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This work is partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants 51522501 and 51475032) and Hong Kong Scholar Program (Project XJ 2016004 and G-YZ0K in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University).

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  1. School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, People’s Republic of China

    Ying Cheng, Yongping Zhang & Fei Tao

  2. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

    Ying Cheng & Ping Ji

  3. School of Information Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, People’s Republic of China

    Wenjun Xu

  4. School of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, People’s Republic of China

    Zude Zhou

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Cheng, Y., Zhang, Y., Ji, P. et al. Cyber-physical integration for moving digital factories forward towards smart manufacturing: a survey. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 97, 1209–1221 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-018-2001-2

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