A framework for cyber-physical production system management and digital twin feedback monitoring for fast failure recovery

With the ongoing Industry 4.0 (I4.0) revolution, plant management and supervision play a key rolein the development and (re-)design of industrial plants. In the arising scenarios, the need tocoordinate human workers and autonomous systems, sharing the same environment, teamingtogether, becomes a fundamental requirement. Indeed, even though automation in standardassembly lines has reached high efficiency and reliability, for complex and new applications, acertain amount of failure must be considered for future addressing. This paper presents a framework for the flexible coordination of such a complex and heterogeneous cyber-physical system. Adigital Ttwin mirrors in real-time the plant system, while a dashboard displays plant status,providing the human operators with fundamental tools for supervision and prompt interventionin case of failure. The framework was developed and tested in an industrially relevant environment,specifically for the assembly of the interior of an aircraft fuselage.