Towards integrated digital twins for construction and manufacturing

Towards integrated digital twins for construction and manufacturing

Čustović, I. (TU Delft Design & Construction Management)
Kuttantharappel Soman, R. (TU Delft Integral Design & Management; ETH Zürich)
Pauwels, Pieter (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Hall, Daniel M. (TU Delft Design & Construction Management)

Kassem, Mohamad (editor)
Tagliabue, Lavinia Chiara (editor)
Amor, Robert (editor)
Sreckovic, Marijana (editor)
Chassiakos, Athanasios (editor)

2023

A digital twin (DT) can enhance construction management with comprehensive real-time simulations. However, research rarely considers prefabrication factories, whose processes have a significant impact on cost and duration. It remains unclear how construction DTs can achieve their expected benefits without dynamically interacting with the DTs of manufacturing facilities. To address this, a DT integration model is proposed. It builds upon systems theory and describes integration across the three layers objectives, processes, and data & tools. A theoretical example demonstrates potential benefits of integrated DTs. This work can assist researchers and practitioners who are focusing on DTs in the execution phase.

Digital twins
Construction
Manufacturing
Production Planning and Control
Systems integration
Simulation

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:144f8d8c-7406-4c60-a1f1-520bc42a04fa

https://doi.org/10.35490/EC3.2023.256

9780701702731

Proceedings of the 2023 European Conference on Computing in Construction and the 40th International CIB W78 Conference, 4

2023 European Conference on Computing in Construction, 2023-07-10 → 2023-07-12, Out of the Blue Resort, Heraklion, Greece

Proceedings of the European Conference on Computing in Construction, 2684-1150

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© 2023 I. Čustović, R. Kuttantharappel Soman, Pieter Pauwels, Daniel M. Hall