Webinar #6: Self-learning Digital Twins in Manufacturing with Prof. Jan Aurich
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🗓️ 29 January 2025 - ⏰ 3:00PM (CET)
About the webinar
Digital Twins (DTs) are revolutionizing modern manufacturing by integrating physical systems with their digital counterparts, enabling advanced monitoring, control, and optimization. This webinar examines the potential of self-improving DT models through life-long learning to unlock new manufacturing capabilities.
To provide a structured foundation, a taxonomy designed to address the lack of a standardized framework for comparing DT applications is introduced. This taxonomy categorizes applications across manufacturing system levels (factory, process, machine), purposes (diagnosis, monitoring and control, prediction), and model types (black-box, grey-box, white box). Building on this framework, two approaches for enabling self-improvement in DTs are presented: black-box, and grey-box models.
Using the example of a CNC machine, a conceptual approach to implementing a self-improving DT is demonstrated. This approach highlights how self-improving DTs can enhance adaptability and efFiciency across diverse manufacturing contexts.
Meet ProfessorJan C Aurich
Prof. Jan C. Aurich, born in 1964, studied mechanical engineering with a focus on production technology at Leibniz Universität Hannover and Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, USA.
From 1990 to 1995, he was a research associate at the Institute of Production Engineering and Machine Tools (IFW) at the University of Hannover. He headed the "CAD/ CAPP" department from 1993 to 1995. From 1995 to 2002, Prof. Aurich held various management positions in manufacturing and design at Daimler AG.
Prof. Aurich is a member of the German Academic Association for Production Technology (WGP) and the National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech), as well as a Fellow of the International Academy of Production Engineering (CIRP). Since 2002, he has headed the Institute of Manufacturing Technology and Production Systems (FBK) at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau. From 2013 - 2014 he was a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the University of California, Davis, USA.
