John Breslin

Cognitive Digital Twins for Industry 4.0

Smart manufacturing or Industry 4.0, a trend initiated over a decade ago, aims to revolutionise traditional manufacturing using technology-driven approaches. The digital twin is an emerging concept whereby a digital replica can be built of any physical object, and is becoming mainstream. However, rather than just being a replica, value-added services can be offered on top of digital twins, which are not as easily done on the corresponding physical assets. Cognitive digital twins are an extension of existing digital twins with some additional capabilities of communication, analytics, and intelligence in three layers: (i) access, (ii) analytics, and (iii) cognition.
 

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John Breslin is a Personal Professor in Electronic Engineering at the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Galway, where he is Director of the TechInnovate / AgInnovate programmes. John has taught electronic engineering, computer science, innovation and entrepreneurship topics over the past 20 years. Associated with three SFI Research Centres, he is a Co-Principal Investigator at Insight (Data Analytics) and Confirm (Smart Manufacturing), a Funded Investigator at VistaMilk (AgTech), and a Principal Investigator on the Horizon 2020 CSA OntoCommons. With a h-index of 48, 9150 citations, and various best paper awards, he has jointly written over 275 peer-reviewed academic publications, including books on The Social Semantic Web and Social Semantic Web Mining. John co-authored the Irish bestsellers Old Ireland in Colour (Wikipedia article) and Old Ireland in Colour 2. He co-created the SIOC framework (Wikipedia article), implemented in hundreds of applications (by Yahoo, Boeing, Vodafone, etc.) on at least 65,000 websites with 35 million data instances.
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