MUET GOES GLOBAL: Role of Digital Twin in Industry 4.0 Prof. B.S Chowdhry attends 26th Strategic Workshop (SW’23), Dubrovnik Croatia

Towards Advancement of Collaborative Technological Education: Role of Digital Twin in Industry 4.0 as an example was the title of the invited talk of Prof Bhawani Shankar
Chowdhry. In his presentation, he reviewed several collaborative projects and their outcome in terms of human resource development in emerging technologies. He mentioned that progressed manufacturing strategies are revolutionizing the industry and transforming the way products are designed, produced, and delivered.
With the advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution whereby creating a virtual replica connected to the physical asset, digital twins give smart manufacturers the real-time insights they need to make production decisions quickly.
Digital twin has become the basis for the planning, simulation, and validation of manufacturing processes from an early planning phase to the virtual commissioning of the production line as a pillar of Industry 4.0 in education and such practice has taken deep roots in the academia and industry of developed nations. The technology readiness level is such that there is going to be a huge gap in a recession-hit world where the modern world stands at one end of the continuum and the Next Eleven nations are struggling at the other end.
In addition, he discussed the recently approved EU CBHE proposal “Capacity Building in the Teaching of AR/VR (CATCH-VR)”. To achieve innovative aspects in developing a workforce of students and teachers for strengthening the capacity in the teaching and application of AR/VR technology through training, seminars, conferences, and a graduate degree program that will especially benefit countries like Pakistan and third-world countries to overcome the challenges of 4th industrial revolution for less developed nations are the objectives of CATCH-VR. Pakistan is a developing country and has been going through an economic crunch for a long time that has deeply affected developmental projects. The country’s prosperity is based on skill development through basic education, aided by industrial development. As mentioned earlier, Virtual Reality (VR) has been used by developed countries all over the world in their education systems and industries as an alternative way to make educational and industrial systems more sustainable. Pakistan is a developing country and has been going through an economic crunch for a long time that has deeply affected developmental projects. The country’s prosperity is based on skill development through basic education, aided by industrial development. As mentioned earlier, Virtual Reality (VR) has been used by developed countries all over the world in their education systems and industries as an alternative way to make educational and industrial systems more sustainable.
Professor Chowdhry also chaired the panel discussion “Future Global Strategies & Project Proposal Discussions”. Prof Peter Lindgren mentioned challenges especially Startups and Small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) – when it comes to designing, reengineering, developing, implementing, measuring, and comprehending which Circular and Sustainable Business Model (CSBM) to choose and operate. He talked about the transition towards a circular economy which will have not only have great environmental impact but also a major economic and social impact.
Gaining a thorough and better understanding of the parameters of this new framework and the interrelationships between Business Models holds significant value in achieving conceptual clarity within what CSBM archetype and strategy to choose and how advanced technology can support this evolvement. He emphasized the need to establish business model centers in Asin universities particularly India and Pakistan for identifying and solving the local issues.
Prof Fang Chang Kuo discussed about Signature-Based Random Access Procedure for 5G Massive Machine-Type Communications, he mentioned that his Institute of Information Industry closely works with industry in several research areas. He also discussed collaborative programs such as the joint masters (1+1) program.
Finally, it was concluded that we may have one meeting either at MFU Thailand or UAE to carry out a signing ceremony of CGC with two universities in Pakistan and one university in UAE. In addition, partner universities will prepare proposals to participate in forthcoming CBHE calls in the diversified areas of food security, Wind power condition monitoring, and water-related problems to be solved by applying advanced ICT/IOT-based technologies.