Digital Twins in Manufacturing

lt;p>Prof. dr. Hab. Vytautas Ostasevicius is currently a director of the Institute of Mechatronics at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), member of the Lithuanian and Royal Swedish Academies of sciences, expert of the European Commission for HORIZON-2020 for Factories of the Future and "Eurostars" applications, "Eureka, Grand Solution Application(s) (Danemark)" projects evaluation, and chairman of the International Federation of Theory of Machines and Mechanisms (IFToMM) national committee. He has conducted 10 international and 10 national research projects, and supervised 18 Ph.D. students. He is the author and coauthor of 300 scientific papers, 6 monographs (two of them edited in Springer), 45 patents/inventions. His current research interests include dynamics and optimization of structures, precision manufacturing technologies, "Industry 4.0" applications, MEMS.

Chapter 1. The State-of-the-Art in the Theoretical and Practical Applications of the Digital Twins Components.- Chapter 2. Digital Twins for Cutting Tools.- Chapter 3. Integration of Digital and Physical Data to Process Difficult-to-Cut Materials.- Chapter 4. Wireless Connectivity Options for Tool Condition Monitoring IoT Applications.- Chapter 5. Digital Twin Driven Technological Process Monitoring for Edge Computing and Cloud Manufacturing Applications.