Manufacturing companies are under growing pressure to design, test, and adapt production systems faster, while ensuring that people, robots, and machines can work together safely and efficiently. Within the CONVERGING project, Visual Components developed the AI Digital Twin (AIDT) module to support this transition through intelligent virtual representations of manufacturing environments.

Smart manufacturing is no longer about isolated robots, sensors, or automation cells. The key challenge is real-time coordination across people, robots, tasks, safety events, and shopfloor data within connected cyber-physical production systems.