Abstract
Due to the spread of digitalization across every industry sector, technologies enabling digital transformation are nowadays capturing increasingly high attention. For instance, the use of Digital Twin as a real-time synchronized virtual representation of a physical system is gaining ground in many applications, particularly in the manufacturing sector. One of the main reasons behind this trend is the opportunity to visualize and optimize manufacturing system/process parameters, such as productivity, competitiveness, or sustainability, inside the digital world at a first glance. Hence, the potentials of Digital Twin in manufacturing can be manifold. The present paper intends to demonstrate Digital Twin potential applied to a practical case study for education purposes. An Axiomatic Design-based approach is utilized to design a physical laboratory demonstrator, which will be exploited in the future in occasion of organized lab visits for students and practitioners from industry. This demonstrator will be designed with the main scope to transfer detailed knowledge about Digital Twin related concepts applied to the manufacturing field. The final outcomes of this work will include the design, behavior modelling and validation of the demonstrator in exam.