Emotions-aware digital twins for manufacturing

Abstract

Digital manufacturing employs different enabling technologies to represent various aspects of product and its manufacturing processes to be able proactively make better, i.e. informative decisions. Digital twins is the recently developed approach to have a representation of a product and/or a manufacturing site in digital space allowing to give feedback and predict development of the product or the system. As human remains widely involved in most aspects of manufacturing, an adequate digital representation of a human contributes to completeness of a digital twin. This article proposes architecture for emotions-aware digital twins. Such architecture would allow human to keep the locus of control by better comprehending, communicating relevant data and promoting situational awareness. This work can contribute to reduction of hazardous situations at the production floor, increase products quality, and facilitate innovation and creativity in design tasks.