As part of the work of this chair launched by Institut Mines-Télécom, the Saint-Étienne teaching and research teams in mathematical and industrial engineering are working on creating digital twins designed to optimize the dynamics of a production system.
“ Digital twins are transforming the operational and organizational models of industrial companies. With our sponsors, Siemens Digital Industries Software, Laboratoires Pierre Fabre and Inoprod, whose field experience is essential to us, we want to accelerate this revolution by giving digital twins a more global dimension to create a decision-support tool.” explains Frédéric Grimaud, lecturer-researcher at Mines Saint-Étienne and holder of the IMT Chair “Digital Twins for Industrial System.”
He added: “Evolving demand, supply chain tensions, energy crisis… Risks are multiplying and companies must be able to anticipate and model them with these new tools that they must be able to handle with ease. To meet the different needs of users, our work will respect the rule of the 3 “S’s”: Simplicity of design, Simplicity of maintenance and Simplicity of use. ”
The subject addressed by the Saint-Étienne entity concerns more specifically the creation of global predictive models taking into account energy and environmental aspects.
Two other themes are being studied in parallel by IMT Mines Albi (coupling digital twins with artificial intelligence tools) and IMT Mines Alès (engineering and maintenance of digital twins).
Through the use of digital twins, the objective of the “Digital Twins for Industrial System” chair is to support industries in their transformation to enable them to gain competitiveness by removing the technological barriers that hinder their development.
The “Digital Twins for Industrial System” chair was created with the support of the Fondation Mines-Télécom for a period of three years.
