1. Toward digital twins for sawmill production planning and control: benefits, opportunities, and challenges
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Sylvain Chabanet, Hind Bril El-Haouzi, Michael Morin, Jonathan Gaudreault, Philippe Thomas, and Chabanet, Sylvain
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[INFO.INFO-OH] Computer Science [cs]/Other [cs.OH] ,Digital Twin ,Sawmill ,[SPI.AUTO] Engineering Sciences [physics]/Automatic ,Strategy and Management ,Production Planning and Control ,Management Science and Operations Research ,Industry 4.0 ,Forest Product Supply Chain ,Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering - Abstract
Sawmills are key elements of the forest product industry supply chain, and they play important economic, social, and environmental roles. Sawmill production planning and control are, however, challenging owing to several factors, including, but not limited to, the heterogeneity of the raw material. The emerging concept of digital twins introduced in the context of Industry 4.0 has generated high interest and has been studied in a variety of domains, including production planning and control. In this paper, we investigate the benefits digital twins would bring to the sawmill industry via a literature review on the wider subject of sawmill production planning and control. Opportunities facilitating their implementation, as well as ongoing challenges from both academic and industrial perspectives, are also studied.
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- 2022
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