Cloud based Architecture to implement Digital Twins
2022-26-1147
05/26/2022
- Event
- Content
- Increased operating cost of aircraft for maintenance and repair is an area that has garnered a lot of attention. Efforts to reduce the cost has not always met with success despite aircraft being built with increased reliability including more durable engines and innovations in approach to maintenance. Most airlines focus on cutting cost of maintenance, repair and overhaul while ensuring operational availability of assets. Means to optimize cost must always be within mandatory bounds of safety of operations. Existing approaches for fleet management and sustainment are largely based on statistical distributions of material properties, physical testing and heuristic design philosophies which are often unable to address extreme requirements. Some of the major challenges include employment of conventional maintenance practices, slower turnaround time, suboptimal supply chain management, poor utilization of resources, below par manufacturing processes, outdated manual processes and inferior energy management, all of which require attention. To optimize shortcomings of conventional approaches, a paradigm shift is required in the form of ‘digital twins’. Maturing of cloud technology along with advancements in fields of high fidelity simulation and big data have made realization of digital twins a reality. This paper describes various use cases applicable to aerospace industry that can adapt digital twin technology to increase life cycle time of various components by utilizing various cloud based resources.
- Citation
- Padmanabhan, S., and Sunkara, B., "Cloud based Architecture to implement Digital Twins," SAE Technical Paper 2022-26-1147, 2022, .