MetaTwin: The Foundation Element of Cloud Manufacturing Metaverse

Ming Li, Hang Wu, Mingxing Li

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Abstract

The tread towards manufacturing digitalization facilitates the establishment of a uniform cyber-physical manufacturing world, which forms metaverse of cloud manufacturing (CMfg). As an enabling cyber-physical technology, digital twin (DT) has been widely applied to build vivid instances of physical manufacturing resources in CMfg world. However, current DTs are formulized on different granularities, which makes it difficult to organize and configure these granularities in a uniform CMfg metaverse. Hence, this paper proposes the concept of MetaTwin as the foundational elements of CMfg metaverse. The scientific characteristics of MetaTwin are defined and general relationships between MetaTwins are extracted and summarized to configure fine-grained MetaTwins into different logical DTs in CMfg metaverse. Finally, related cutting-edge technologies are given to develop and implement MetaTwins in terms of characteristics and relationship requirements.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLeveraging Transdisciplinary Engineering in a Changing and Connected World - Proceedings of the 30th ISTE International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering
EditorsAdam Cooper, Pisut Koomsap, Josip Stjepandic
PublisherIOS Press BV
Pages532-540
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781643684406
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2023
Event30th ISTE International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering: Leveraging Transdisciplinary Engineering in a Changing and Connected World, TE 2023 - Hua Hin Cha Am, Thailand
Duration: 11 Jul 202314 Jul 2023

Publication series

NameAdvances in Transdisciplinary Engineering
Volume41
ISSN (Print)2352-751X
ISSN (Electronic)2352-7528

Conference

Conference30th ISTE International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering: Leveraging Transdisciplinary Engineering in a Changing and Connected World, TE 2023
Country/TerritoryThailand
CityHua Hin Cha Am
Period11/07/2314/07/23

Keywords

  • Cloud manufacturing
  • digital twin
  • Industry 4.0
  • MetaTwin
  • metaverse

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
  • Software
  • Algebra and Number Theory
  • Strategy and Management

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