Building a digital twin for additive manufacturing through the exploitation of blockchain: A case analysis of the aircraft industry
By Claudio Mandolla, Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli, G. Percoco, Andrea Urbinati. Computers in industry (Print), 2019
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Abstract Blockchain is becoming a widespread digital technology that allows every transaction to be tracked in an inviolable way, hence making it possible to go back through the entire history of products and product components. Its idiosyncratic characteristics can be especially useful in the aircraft industry, a highly technologically-based sector, wherein manufacturers of components are governed by stringent technical standards, the aim of which is to certify and monitor the whole component production process. In addition, the sector makes significant use of additive manufacturing technologies to perform the rapid prototyping of product components, realized through the supply chain, hence reducing time-to-market, while ensuring quality and containing costs. Starting from these premises, the paper focuses on the phases characterizing the metal additive manufacturing process, in which a component for the aircraft industry can be produced and proposes a digital twin for additive manufacturing in the aircraft industry through the exploitation of Blockchain solutions. In doing so, the paper provides a conceptual answer to securing and organizing the data generated through an end-to-end additive manufacturing process in the aircraft industry and underlines how companies exploiting Blockchain can build secure and connected manufacturing infrastructure.
Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
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- Blockchain-based framework for supply chain traceability: A case example of textile and clothing industry (2021, background): “Implementing supply chain traceability has emerged as a possible solution that can help to solve these supply chain issues (Mandolla et al., 2019; Wang et al., 2019).”
- A literature review of blockchain technology applications in supply chains: A comprehensive analysis of themes, methodologies and industries (2021, unknown): “The second largest group of articles focuses on three types of secondary industries: manufacturing (Ko et al., 2018; Mandolla et al., 2019; Xu et al., 2019), light industry (Sylim et al., 2018; Tseng et al., 2018; Yong et al., 2020), and construction (Z. Wang et al., 2020; Xiong et al., 2019).”
- Digital Twin: Enabling Technologies, Challenges and Open Research (2020, methodology): “Mandolla et al. [2] present an example of blockchain use, in a case study showing how they have combined it with a Digital Twin.”
- Digital Twin: Values, Challenges and Enablers From a Modeling Perspective (2019, background): “[107] gives a nice insight into the exploitation of blockchain technology in building a digital twin for additive manufacturing with focus on aircraft industry, and Li et al.”
- Digital twin paradigm: A systematic literature review (2021, background): “Moreover, DTs are capable of mitigating damage or degradation by activating self-healing mechanisms or by recommending changes in the mission profile to decrease loadings (Mandolla et al., 2019).”
- Evaluating the factors that influence blockchain adoption in the freight logistics industry (2020, background): “Additionally, there have been studies on the adoption of blockchains in the aircraft industry (Mandolla et al, 2019; Vaio and Varriale, 2020), construction industry (Li et al, 2019), steel industry (Yang et al, 2019), chemical industry (Sikorski et al, 2017) and music recording industry (Chalmers…”