Digital Twin methodology for energy modelling and management of body and assembly shop floors
Giulio Vivo
Senior Researcher
Centro Ricerche FIAT S.C.p.A.
Abstract
In the speech, we explain the aim and the application of a modelling methodology for the cross topic of the Maintenance and Quality control of the plant associated with energy efficiency and thermohygrometric comfort of the industrial buildings, summarizing the achievements obtained and the ongoing tasks as contribution in the overall MADEin4 programme. Indeed, CRF has been designing and developing a digital twin enabling the energy analysis to identify some useful maintenance or energy improvement interventions. The model, once that is completed, will allow to find and test the best solutions targeting the energy performance of the industrial buildings in their obsolete parts and consequently to reduce energy consumption and to improve of the indoor air quality for a better working condition of the involved work force.The whole methodology is divided into the sections of modelling and energy analysis as follows:- Development and test of Building Energy Management (BEM) methodology to estimate the building consumption. This methodological development has been achieved incrementally: just considering the structural parts of the buildings in the initial activity, and by integrating the PEM (Process Energy Management) data, in a subsequent refinement stage, to get the comprehensive model.- Energy simulations to evaluate the best efficiency solution in order to reduce the consumption and to improve energy performance for a well-designed maintenance and to increase the quality of the building.The current condition about the energy management of the factory shows greater control over the process but little attention to the energy consumed by the buildings and their maintenance and optimization. In particular, it is possible to observe:- Lack of knowledge of the thermal behavior of the industrial buildings.- Low diffusion of a common reference methodology for energy analysis.- Lack of a tool to analyze in an objective way interventions on the buildings of the plant.In this scenario the BEM+PEM methodology represents a solution for a better knowledge and control of the energy condition of an industrial building for different important factors, such as the possibility to identify the best solutions of maintenance, revamping and reduction of energy consumption, and because it allows the adoption of innovative analytics, enabling for instance the predictive quality control of working areas indoor temperatures, to the benefit and the well-being of the involved workers.
Biography
Giulio Vivo is a senior researcher of Centro Ricerche FIAT. He graduated in Information Science in 1986 and joined CRF in 1987. From 1986-1989 he worked at Tecnopolis (Bari) dealing with innovative computer vision, inspection, robot guidance, knowledge based vision systems, 2D and 3D pattern recognition applications for the FIAT group plants. He has participated in various EU RTD programs, starting with EUREKA-Prometheus. Lately he has worked in the domain of the preventive safety and the cooperative ITS systems, contributing to a significant number of projects on these subjects, the SAFESPOT EU integrated project among the others. Dr. Vivo is currently involved in the internal research activities of the Stellantis group, dealing on innovations in the process and applications of Human-Robot Collaboration, increased flexibility and reconfigurability of the automation systems, and other research and achievements for the implementation of the fabric of the future.
