Activity: Participating in or Organising an Event › Key-note speaker and plenary lectures at conferences
Description
Gemini Call presentations at Connected Digital Twin event forms part of the annual Connected Places Catapult summit.
Title of the talk: "Simulating Resilience: How Cobots and Digital Twins Could Transform Emergency Manufacturing"
Outline of the talk: "In response to the ventilator shortages during COVID-19, researchers explored how collaborative robots (cobots) and digital twins could enable fast reconfiguration and scaling of manufacturing under extreme constraints. This case study presents the conceptual design, simulation models, and validation results for a human-robot collaborative production system aimed at rapid ventilator manufacturing. Using digital twins for continuous process optimization and cobots for safe, flexible assembly, the study demonstrates the potential for future manufacturing systems to become more adaptive, resilient, and pandemic-proof.