Interlinked Digital Twins for Supply Chain Dependency Validation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current supply chain management systems face challenges in tracking and validating components at every level, leading to resource-intensive processes and increased risk of fraud due to the inability to effectively authenticate and trace the authenticity of resources.
Innovation Solution
Utilizing interlinked digital twins and notary-based methods to generate, verify, and store digital representations of supply chain entities, ensuring authenticity and consistency through automated notarization and storage in a persistent data store.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If detailed validation and traceability tracking is performed at every constituent component level in the supply chain, then the authenticity and reliability of supply chain components is improved, but the system resource consumption and processing complexity increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates digital twins (digital copies) of physical supply chain components that can be validated and tracked separately from the physical objects. These digital representations contain all necessary information about the physical component's origin, journey, and authenticity, allowing validation without physically examining each component at every stage.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the supply chain validation process into discrete, manageable units by creating individual digital twins for each component or batch. Each digital twin can be independently validated, tracked, and verified, allowing selective validation of specific components rather than requiring comprehensive validation of entire supply chains simultaneously.
2Reliability
If comprehensive traceability tracking is implemented at every level of the supply chain, then fraud risk is reduced, but the processing time and operational complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by establishing digital twins and their validation status in advance, before physical inspection or verification is needed. Digital twins are created and populated with validation data proactively during manufacturing and initial processing, so that when components need to be verified later in the supply chain, the validation information is already available instantly without requiring time-consuming physical re-examination.
3Measurement precision
If manual validation processes are used to verify supply chain components, then the level of scrutiny and detail can be high, but the productivity and throughput of the supply chain decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical validation processes with automated digital verification systems. Instead of physically inspecting and verifying each component through manual processes, the system uses automated algorithms to validate digital twins against predefined criteria, check validation statuses, and verify authenticity. This substitution maintains high validation precision while dramatically increasing processing speed and supply chain throughput.
Data Source
AI summary
Computer implemented methods, systems, and computer program products include program code executing on a processor(s) automatically generates, based on historical production data, digital twins, where each digital twin is a digital twin of an entity in the production cycle. The processor(s) obtains a given digital twin associated with a given entity and initiates notarizing the given digital twin by extracting characteristics of the given entity, comparing the characteristics to characteristics of previous instances to identify inconsistencies, compares waste and byproducts of the given entity to prior instances to determine if an output flow for the given entity is smaller than an input flow. Based on determining that the characteristics are comparable and the output flow for the given entity is smaller than the input flow for the given entity, the processor(s) notarizes the given digital twin and stores the notarized given digital twin in a persistent storage.