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Focus

Digital twins
Digitalising automobile

manufacturing plants

The auto and auto-ancillary industries
operate 24x7, with no breaks or downtimes
between shifts. The FM resources for
maintaining such manufacturing facilities
are both vast and expensive; the industry

is also trying to implement sustainability
principles.

How can digitalisation help achieve this?
Clean India Journal examines best practices.

y digitalising waste reduction, new ways of
an automobile streamlining decision times,
manufacturing plant, a and maximising workforce
facilities manager can productivity.
Bhave instant access
to their current equipment Digital twins
inventory, documentation and
history. This is an advantage Through its visual interface,
over relying on traditional a digital twin acts as a common
blueprints, enabling better denominator, uniting different
project planning and a systems and data sets, ensuring
greater understanding of how all digital assets relate to that
overlapping projects affect denominator for everyone to
each other. interpret and work with.
Incorporating a digital Incredibly accurate 2D
facilities framework can help and 3D modeling will help
an automotive factory stay facilities managers oversee
data-rich, smart building- the modification of existing
enabled, flexible to demand buildings to meet future
and supply chain fluctuations, environmental regulation
at least semi-autonomous in requirements, not to mention
its function and self-correcting a company’s own good
capabilities, and sustainable corporate ambitions. Whether
in terms of its environmental it’s identifying the best
impact. location to install solar panels
By enabling the digital on a facility’s roof or finding
automotive factory, facilities ways to treat waste on-site,
managers can expect to realise digitalisation can accelerate
a variety of efficiency gains, and optimise implementation
which include a reduction in of an automobile facility
energy and maintenance costs, manager’s plans.

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