Real-time field synchronization mechanism for Digital Twin manufacturing systems

Digital Twin (DT) is one of the promising digital technologies being developed at present to support digital transformation. Successful execution of DT requires real-time access to the collected data. However, real-time connection and synchronization are a significant difficulty owing to the physical environment's unique characteristics of the physical environment such as variability, uncertainty, the different scales of the physical and virtual spaces, and the data generated continuously by various entities. Prior research has been conducted to address the DT synchronization problem in the literature. However, there is a lack of standard approaches or mechanisms for digital twins at the field level in manufacturing systems. Hence, this paper aims to present a field synchronization mechanism for DT of manufacturing systems for real-time data. Copyright (c) 2023 The Authors. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)