A Digital Twin-Based Approach for Designing and Multi-Objective Optimization of Hollow Glass Production Line

TLDR

Industry 4.0 and related initiatives are driving the creation of many new production lines, making realistic virtual models essential to bridge design and operation gaps. This paper proposes a digital twin‑based approach for rapid individualized design of a hollow glass production line. The approach builds a digital twin that fuses physics‑based system modeling with real‑time process data, incorporates an analytical decoupling framework, and is validated through key enabling techniques and a hollow glass production line case study.

Abstract

Various new national advanced manufacturing strategies, such as Industry 4.0, Industrial Internet, and Made in China 2025, are issued to achieve smart manufacturing, resulting in the increasing number of newly designed production lines in both developed and developing countries. Under the individualized designing demands, more realistic virtual models mirroring the real worlds of production lines are essential to bridge the gap between design and operation. This paper presents a digital twin-based approach for rapid individualized designing of the hollow glass production line. The digital twin merges physics-based system modeling and distributed real-time process data to generate an authoritative digital design of the system at pre-production phase. A digital twin-based analytical decoupling framework is also developed to provide engineering analysis capabilities and support the decision-making over the system designing and solution evaluation. Three key enabling techniques as well as a case study in hollow glass production line are addressed to validate the proposed approach.