Digital Twin and Data-Driven Quality Prediction of Complex Die-Casting Manufacturing

Digital twin and data-driven technologies provide an idea for realizing complex product quality prediction. Aiming at the issues of real-time visual monitoring, operating status analysis, and quality prediction in complex die-casting intelligent manufacturing, a digital twin and data-driven quality prediction architecture is proposed. The virtual-real interaction digital twin of die-casting manufacturing cells is established. The collaborative working mode of physical cells, virtual cells, and real-time monitoring is constructed to predict product quality. The learning method of die-casting parameter data and appearance defect data is proposed to realize the real-time quality prediction in die-casting process and the appearance defect quality prediction after processing, respectively. The data preprocessing and XGBoost-based learning method is proposed for real-time quality prediction of die-casting process. A single-shot refinement neural network for aluminum casting tiny defects detection (Refine-ACTDD) based on deep learning is proposed to solve the high-precision defect detection problems of small appearance defects of complex castings and large interference of complex background. Taking the complex aluminum die-casting as an example, the applications of quality prediction are verified. The method provides a new technical approach for high-precision quality prediction of complex die-casting manufacturing.

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This paper proposes a digital twin and data-driven quality prediction architecture, which realizes real-time quality prediction and appearance defect quality prediction in die-casting manufacturing through the virtual-real interaction of digital twin and the collaborative working mode. The real-time quality prediction accuracy of die-casting process is improved through data preprocessing and XGBoost-based learning method. The detection problem of complex appearance defects in castings is solved by a deep learning based neural network.