Towards Digital Twin Implementation for Assessing Production Line Performance and Balancing

Marcello Fera 1, Alessandro Greco 1,* , Mario Caterino 1, Salvatore Gerbino 1, Francesco Caputo 1, Roberto Macchiaroli 1 and Egidio D’Amato 2 

1 Department of Engineering, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, via Roma 29, 81031 Aversa, Italy;

marcello.fera@unicampania.it (M.F.); 

mario.caterino@unicampania.it (M.C.);

salvatore.gerbino@unicampania.it (S.G.); 

francesco.caputo@unicampania.it (F.C.);

roberto.macchiaroli@unicampania.it (R.M.)


2 Department of Science and Technology, University of Napoli Parthenope, Centro Direzionale Isola C4,
80143 Naples, Italy; egidio.damato@uniparthenope.it

* Correspondence: alessandro.greco@unicampania.it; Tel.: +39-081-50-10-318
† This paper is an extended version of our paper published in Fera, M.; Greco, A.; Caterino, M.; Gerbino, S.;
Caputo, F. Line Balancing Assessment Enhanced by IoT and Simulation Tools. In the proceeding of the 2019
II Workshop on Metrology for Industry 4.0 and IoT (MetroInd4.0 & IoT), Naples, Italy, 4–6 June 2019.
Received: 14 November 2019;  Accepted: 20 December 2019; Published: 23 December 2019