New Digitalisation Processes and Digital Twins for Aerospace Engineering.

英国工业战略已将数字化确定为一个关键的优先领域，它将彻底改变未来的工程制造格局，工业4.0概念是这一战略的关键推动者。该项目专注于为未来飞机设计和制造过程研究新颖的工业4.0概念，包括数字双胞胎、增强/虚拟现实、深度/机器学习技术和大数据分析。这些技术是强大的解决方案，通过优化产品、制造流程和未来供应链，有望在整个生命周期内改变行业生产力。其他值得考虑的令人兴奋的技术包括新的信息解决方案，如单一事实来源和区块链技术，以提供跨生命周期的改进的可跟踪性和认证遵从性。数字化的人为因素方面是另一个非常感兴趣的领域，因为工程越来越接近更多地使用基于模型的工程方法和虚拟化。

The UK Industrial Strategy has identified digitalisation as a key priority area that will completely transform the future engineering-manufacturing landscape with Industry-4.0 concepts being crucial enablers to this strategy.The project focuses on researching novel Industry-4.0 concepts for future aircraft design and manufacturing processes including digital twins, augmented/virtual reality, deep/machine learning technologies and big data analytics. These technologies are powerful solutions that look set to transform industry productivity across the complete lifecycle by optimising products, their manufacturing processes and future supply chains. Other exciting technologies to be considered include new information solutions such as single source of truth and blockchain technologies to provide improved traceability and certification compliance across the lifecycle. The human factors aspect of digitalisation is another area of great interest as engineering moves towards ever closer to greater use of model-based engineering methods and virtualisation.