Digital twins: development and implementation challenges within Moroccan context
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Digital twins: development and implementation challenges within Moroccan context Mezzour Ghita1,2 · Benhadou Siham1,2 · Medromi Hicham1,2 · Aitelmahjoub Abdelhafid3 · Deshayes Laurent4 Received: 21 October 2019 / Accepted: 4 April 2020 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Abstract Industrial world today is experiencing its fourth industrial revolution. Predecessor of the automation industry, Industry-4.0 adds a layer of autonomy, intelligence and advanced connectivity to complex industrial systems. This layer creates an interactive and dynamic bridge between virtual systems and physical systems with their upward constraints and requirements in a constantly changing physical environment. Digital twins fall into the category of advanced concepts and technologies that enhance this connectivity. Several projects have been launched in Morocco by the government, industrialists and research communities, initiating the digital transformation of Moroccan industrial manufactories and companies. This paper comes within this framework, firstly to highlight the great potential that digital twins can offer for Moroccan industrial context enhancement, secondly to identify the challenges that can hinder the integration and development of digital twins in Moroccan industrial environment. Keywords Digital twins · Industry 4.0 · Digital twins’ challenges and opportunities · Moroccan industrial context
1 Introduction Today Moroccan industrial tissue and all its agents and different operational and strategic components are confronted to an acute dilemma. This dilemma that obliges industrials and country’s agents to revolutionize their practices has emerged consequently to the introduction of the fourth industrial revolution throughout the world. A revolution initiated by the development of communication and information technologies, and their integration within manufacturing plants [1], and as a result to the launching of digital transformation across Morocco as key strategic step towards an economic and scientific transformation reinforced in the last few years. Firstly, by the promotion of innovation, and scientific and technical
creativity throughout the country [2], secondly with the implementation of several projects targeting the integration of innovative digital solutions within all Moroccan dynamic ecosystems [3]. This dilemma for industrial ecosystems in particular revolves around the improvement of two major dimensions. The first dimension focuses on revolutionizing manufactories hardware and software infrastructures. The second-dimension relays on the evolvement of existing approaches and methodologies for manufacturing operations monitoring. A lot of concepts inspired by proposed models for industry 4.0 integration can help Moroccan ecosystems to deal with these dilemmas.
* Mezzour Ghita, [email protected]; Benhadou Siham, [email protected]; Medromi Hicham, [email protected]; Aitelmahjoub Abdelhafid, [email protected]; Deshayes Laurent, [email protected] | 1 Engineering Research Laboratory
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