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Case file · VS-001

Digital Control Tower

A whole plant you can read from one screen.

Year
[[TODO: year]]
Industry
Manufacturing & Industrial · Automotive & Mobility
Role
Product designer
Brand
JLR · Tata AutoComp

Brain: plant & shop-level digital twins, live issue trackingHeart: spatial dashboards, command-centre screens

Details generalised for confidentiality.

screenshots incoming — real crops replace this sketch

Work performed

  • 2D/3D digital twins at plant and shop level
  • Spatial dashboards with live issue tracking
  • Command-centre screens for the control room
  • Control towers for more than one plant
  • Workshop command tower: Smart Bay Map, drag-and-drop job allocation
  1. 01 · Trigger

    [[TODO: what made the plant ask for a control tower?]]

  2. 02 · Design question

    How does someone in a control room see the state of a whole plant — and the one thing going wrong — in a few seconds?

  3. 03 · What I designed

    2D/3D digital twins at plant and shop level, spatial dashboards with live issue tracking, command-centre screens, and a workshop command tower with a Smart Bay Map and drag-and-drop job allocation.

  4. 04 · Impact

    [[TODO: real outcome, or qualitative only]]