Synchronizing Controlled Logistics Terminals between Simulated and Visualized Production Lines Using An ASTAK Method

Abstract

In a fully automated factory, the Visualized Production Line serves as a crucial tool for management personnel to understand production progress and monitor the manufacturing process. The synchronization between the visualized line and the actual production line significantly impacts the efficiency of production supervision. Taking Controlled Logistics Terminals as an example, this article proposes the AS-TA-KS Method, which encompasses three steps: Animation Simplification, Timing Alignment, and Keyframe Synchronization. This method aims to achieve precise synchronization between the Simulated Production Line and the Visualized Production Line, while ensuring that the process data of the simulated line is not directly accessed. The experiment demonstrates that the method can maintain the time difference between simulated and visualized production line below an average of 0.08 seconds, with a synchronization rate of 99.97%. Our method advances the state-of-the-art method by an average of 5.22%. This case provides support for the real-time and reliability of modern intelligent manufacturing.