This is the (first part of) PhD Defense on Virtual Factories made by Emre Yildiz from the Department of Materials and Production, Aalborg University, on May 24th, 2022 at 15:00 hours.
Assessment Committee:
1- Associate professor Ann-Louise Andersen Aalborg University, Denmark
2- Professor Peter Gorm Larsen Aarhus University, Denmark
3- Professor Emeritus Ron Sanchez Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Supervisor: Professor Charles Møller Department of Materials and Production, Aalborg University
Co-Supervisor: Associate professor Arne Bilberg The University of Southern Denmark
The PhD defense will be hosted by Moderator Ole Madsen. The lecture constitutes a 45 minutes presentation by Emre Yildiz followed by a short break and a discussion session with questions from the opponents and the auditorium.
Industries are evolving faster than ever. Thus, the ultimate competitive advantage for a manufacturing company is the capability to adapt to ever-changing dynamic and complex environments. Yet, it is not a simple matter for organisations to deal with the accelerating frequency of radical changes by means of new strategies, methods, and technologies. This problem is defined as the concurrent/coordinated evolution of products, processes, and systems, in other words, “co-evolution”. The Virtual Factory (VF) enables the integrated use of technologies, methodologies and the data integration across the value chain. However, there are still significant gaps in the knowledge domain as well as practical challenges in the industry for utilising the VF concept. Thus, VF research aims establishing a systemic design and development approach for Digital Twin-based VF, employing a collaborative virtual reality capability to handle co-evolution in manufacturing.