Evaluation of the Impact of Wireless Communication in Production via Factory Digital Twins

Rasmus Suhr Mogensen; Ignacio Rodriguez; Casper Schou; Steffen  Mortensen; Michael Sørensen

doi:10.1016/j.mfglet.2021.01.006

Evaluation of the Impact of Wireless Communication in Production via Factory Digital Twins

Rasmus Suhr Mogensen, Ignacio Rodriguez, Casper Schou, Steffen Mortensen, Michael Sørensen

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Abstract

This paper investigates the impact of wireless communication in manufacturing systems. By using a digital twin representation of a real production line, a production throughput evaluation is performed for various configurations considering different wireless control communication schemes over Wi-Fi, 4G LTE and 5G NR. The results show that operating the manufacturing execution system (MES) over wireless instead of Ethernet will minimally impact production, as the production throughput will not be degraded for lines containing slow stations; or will only degrade by a maximum of 0.41% during one month of continuous production in the case of fast lines involving quick stations.

Original language	English
Journal	Manufacturing Letters
Volume	28
Pages (from-to)	1-5
Number of pages	5
ISSN	2213-8463
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mfglet.2021.01.006
Publication status	Published - Apr 2021

Keywords

wireless technologies
production performance
digital twin
production line
manufacturing execution system
5G
Wi-Fi
smart production
Industry 4.0
wireless performance

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