IDM ¦ Technology/IT
Standardized digitalization
of an existing pudding
production
Integration of a digital twin management system
22 · May 2020 ¦ international-dairy.com
Authors: Roman Werner1, Alexander Beugholt1,
Ronny Takacs1, Dominik Geier1, Thomas Becker1,
Rudolf Sollacher2, Marc Mauermann3, Norbert
Weißenberg4, Martin Roest5, Jameel Istaitih6
1 Technical University of Munich - Institute of
Brewing and Beverage Technology
2 Siemens AG
3 Fraunhofer IVV Dresden
4 Fraunhofer ISST Dortmund
5 Givaudan SA
6 Strauss Group Ltd.
Nowadays, the fourth industrial
revolution influences
every production process.
In the food industry different
concpets offer promising
possibilities for making manufacturing
processes more sustainable,
efficient and safe. For the operation of
most industry 4.0 solutions, IoT platforms
are used to collect acquired data
and process them with diverse techniques
and technologies. According to
Deloitte 1, the number of IoT capable
devices will increase to over 20 Billion
by 2020. This enormous number of
connected devices has great potential
for many industry sectors in terms of
establishing new production concepts
and process monitoring approaches.
One promising concept that strongly
benefits from IoT is the application of
digital twins of production processes,
machinery, and products. The use of
digital twins always requires a wellorganized,
structured and standardized
management system or platform.
This article describes the activities
of a Europe-wide research consortium
funded by EIT Food (www.eitfood.
eu), Europe’s leading food innovation
initiative. The aim is to design a crosscompany,
standardized Digital Twin
Management System (DTM) and its implementation
into an existing production
process for pudding desserts. The
development steps from the non-digital
or semi-digitalized production to the
successful implementation of the DTM
are demonstrated in this project utilizing
two use cases. The first is the production
of a vanilla flavor in a plant of
the Swiss flavorings producer Givaudan
SA. The second use case is the pudding
production process at an Israeli dairy
plant of the Strauss Group, which is
considered centrally here. Givaudan SA
is a direct supplier of the Strauss Group
demonstrating the cross-company functionality
of the DTM.
What is a Digital Twin?
The digital twin is “a dynamic virtual
representation of a physical object or
system across its lifecycle using realtime
data to enable understanding,
learning and reasoning” 2. Usually,
digital twins are connected to sensors
in plants, which send data to virtual
models within the IoT-platform. This
data is fed into the digital twins in real
time and thus a data structure is created
that can be analyzed by algorithms
automatically. However, digital twins
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