In today’s fast-paced and ever-evolving manufacturing industry, companies are looking for ways to improve efficiency, productivity, and quality. One innovative solution is the use of a digital twin.
A digital twin is a virtual replica of a physical product, process, or system. It is used to simulate and analyze various aspects of the manufacturing process, including design, testing, and performance. By creating a digital twin, companies gain valuable insights into how their products and processes perform in the real world, without the need for costly and time-consuming physical experimentation.
The use of a digital twin in smart manufacturing brings numerous benefits, such as improved design and testing, increased efficiency and productivity, improved communication and collaboration, and many more.
The system design combines the architectural components to show an overall unified stack of the industrial edge to digital twin. This chapter offers guidance on aspects of the stack, such as XMPro platform components, stream hosts, communication protocols, networking, security, and best practices based on the components within the solution. It introduces considerations for a successful deployment of a Dell PowerEdge and Dell VxRail platform, XMPro platform, and stream hosts. The following sections provide more in-depth explanations of XMPro system design.