Digital Twins – A Journey from Particle Physics at CERN to Industry 4.0 Manufacturing in Singapore
Dr. Peter Lendermann
D-SIMLAB Technologies Ptd Ltd, Singapore
Digital Twins have become a key element of the ongoing global Industry 4.0 campaign with the objective to speed up digitalization in production and logistics. The potential of the Digital Twin concept for the enhancement and continuous re-optimization of manufacturing and logistics operations has generally been recognized and accepted in both academia and industry. However, what a Digital Twin entails and what it should be able to do, or rather what it can be used for, remains controversial to some extent. In this setting, in my Keynote Presentation I will share some of my own experiences and challenges faced with creating and making use of Digital Twins, starting from my initial involvement in a neutrino experiment at CERN in Geneva in the early 1990’s, all the way to providing a simulation-enabled Digital Twin framework for multiple application use cases through our Singapore-headquartered company D-SIMLAB Technologies to help Semiconductor Manufacturing companies worldwide resolve complex challenges around capacity planning and material flow optimization in semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities.
Dr. Peter Lendermann is the Co-Founder and Chief Business Development Officer of D-SIMLAB Technologies, a Singapore-based company providing simulation-based decision support solutions and services to Aviation, Semiconductor Manufacturing and other asset-intensive industries. Prior to this he worked at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology where he led the research activities related to simulation in production and logistics until spinning them off into D-SIMLAB Technologies. He has been engaged in the simulation community since the early 1990’s when he worked in the CHORUS Collaboration at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics CERN in Geneva (Switzerland) and at Nagoya University (Japan). Peter holds a PhD in Applied High-Energy Physics from Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany) and an MBA in International Economics and Management from SDA Bocconi in Milan (Italy).