Digital twins
In terms of warehousing, a digital twin allows for a physically accurate real-time simulation consisting of the digital representation of real objects, processes and systems within the warehouse. This includes the building infrastructures, floor conveyors, inventory, traffic controls, robots, and basically everything that is available in or interacts with the warehouse environment.
In addition, the warehouse's digital twin can provide real-time connections to data streams from Internet of Things (IoT) devices, warehouse management system (WMS) data sets, and other data sources that enable real-world connectivity.
By building a digital twin for your warehouse, you can perform virtual system testing and measure performance improvements expected from layout changes, software optimizations or upgrades before integrating a change into the physical environment. This can play a key role in avoiding system downtime or performance degradation in the physical twin.
Bearing functions, requirements, challenges and venture
each warehouse has its own individual opportunities for improvement and optimization, yet some warehouse functions and basic requirements needed to support those functions can be standardized. A warehouse is used to store products or inventory that must be stored and moved within the environment. Depending on the type of inventory, products may need to be packaged prior to shipment. Basic infrastructure is required to support these warehouse functions, including a building, machinery and tools. Warehouse operations can be manual and rely on warehouse workers, or they can be fully autonomous or hybrid, with humans and machines working together. Some operations can also be triggered by supply chain-connected software and/or systems.
In addition to these capabilities, the overall functions of a warehouse may be threatened by some challenges and risks, such as labor shortages, supply chain disruptions, business interruptions, natural disasters, and space constraints.
Application examples for the use of digital twins
Spatial design and optimization support overall warehouse operations and continuous product circulation.
Design and optimization of traffic flow for employees, machines and robots for safe circulation in a warehouse environment.
Design and optimize the end-to-end flow process of products and the necessary machines, robots and people to perform the operation.
Optimizing the use of space and maximizing the storage capacity of a warehouse.
Monitor, analyze, predict, and adjust traffic flow design based on fluctuating warehouse productivity.
Designing a warehouse layout that is adaptive and adjustable based on fluctuations in demand.
Design and validate optimal lighting to support various warehouse operations.
Design and validate proper ventilation flow.
Predicting potential bottleneck scenarios and then designing and validating mitigation plans.
Inspection and detection of product defects.
Identifying products to be picked or assembled for an order.
Inspecting assembled orders for accuracy (quantity and type).
Applying appropriate gripping force based on the physics of each product.
Adjusting packaging methodology/material/protection based on physical characteristics of products.
Automation of the packaging process
Picking and placing products.
Transporting inventory in optimized routes.
To minimize the operating costs of a warehouse, examples of use cases include:
Increase energy efficiency by optimizing operations.
Optimize operations and the number of employees.
Reduce inventory damage.
Reduction of human error:
Monitor proper operation of heavy equipment
Monitor the wearing of appropriate safety equipment in designated areas.
Slips and trips:
Evaluate the visibility of warning tapes and hazard signs
Optimize lighting intensity and coverage.
Falling objects:
Perform an earthquake safety assessment of the facility.
Design and evaluate navigation routes around highly dynamic and fast-moving locations.
Fire:
Plan and ensure compliance with storage exhaust space.
Optimize the placement of portable fire extinguishers.
Plan and evaluate evacuation routes.
Contaminants:
Design chemical storage areas and evaluate spill monitoring and containment capabilities.
Design "first aid stations" and simulate various scenarios to optimize design.
Design and evaluate evacuation routes based on various scenarios.
Safety Education & Training:
Train employees how to move and store heavy materials - and the equipment used to move them safely.
Train employees on how to use machinery.
Train employees on warehouse accident protocols.
Generally, all things designed and built by humans are first built in a virtual world. Many iterations of a design can be quickly tested in the virtual world at a fraction of the cost. Once the digital version of the product is complete, the physical product is created. In most cases today, that's the end of the road for the digital version. But when the digital is connected to the real, they can evolve together. Data can be collected from the physical twin via IoT sensors and devices and fed into the digital twin to keep them perfectly in sync.
When a 3D asset or environment becomes a living digital twin, it allows us to switch to any part of the digital twin, just like in a video game, and examine any aspect of it that is reflected in the real world. Simulations can also be performed to predict the near future or test many possible variant to choose the optimal one.
In detail, here are some important advantages of creating digital twins for bearings, which may vary depending on the use case:
Accelerate innovation:
Test business cases for new technologies faster and more accurately
Customize the operation of autonomous robots and continuously train, test, and optimize them.
Accelerate and minimize upfront investments during the design and evaluation of new operations and/or processes.
Activate safe operation:
Test and mitigate safety concerns, including corner cases.
Evaluate job safety for planned or implemented warehouse operations.
Enable a safe training environment for operating heavy machinery.
Enable continuous monitoring:
- Provide a holistic monitoring capability of the entire warehouse operation that is visual, interactive, modular and customizable granular.
Enable agility and adaptability:
Accelerate the redesign, validation, and implementation of warehouse operations due to maintenance and/or equipment outages, changes in business requirements, and response to emergencies and natural disasters.
Efficiently scale operations based on demand and/or seasonal changes
Eliminate interruptions:
Enable incremental upgrades for new designs, workflows, and operational processes.
Enable and accelerate operational and/or mechanism changes due to equipment failures
Enable software-in-the-loop testing.
Minimizing operating costs:
Optimize personnel planning
Increase energy efficiency
Minimize waste from inefficient warehouse operations and/or inventory damage.
Optimization of capital investment:
Optimize fleet size and material handling equipment needed to support warehouse operations.
Optimize space allocation and utilization to support business needs
Risk minimization
Enable data-driven decisions
Test and validate all plans before executing them in the physical world
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