Digital Twins as Sustainability-enabling Technology - Electrochemical Use Case

This learning path provides an understanding of sustainability in the manufacturing environment, employing an electrochemical process use case. The general concept of environmental sustainability in manufacturing is introduced, together with the connection between sustainability key performance indicators (KPIs) and Digital Twins. In particular, Digital Twins are depicted, highlighting their role as key enabling technologies to monitor and optimize the physical process, discussing how changes in process variables impact the sustainability KPIs. The capability of Digital Twins to improve decision-making is presented, together with the optimization of an electrochemical machining process as an example.