En-route to a Logic Model for Digital Triplets: A Sneak Preview into a Multivocal Literature Review - Dr Kamil Erkan Kabak

Event Date: 22 April 2026

Speaker: Dr Kamil Erkan Kabak, Dept of Industrial Engineering, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey

Time: 2-3pm

Location: Strathclyde Business School, Room SW106

Abstract: The implementations of Digital Triplets increasingly get attention but making sense out of all reporting becomes challenging. This talk focuses on a problem of integration of human intelligence and factors in Digital Triplets (D3s) for enhanced decision-making process particularly for manufacturing operations. Although the existing studies present some Digital Triplet (D3) applications with particular operations, they do not focus on the effectiveness of engineering decisions and how this could be achieved in combination of new technologies such as Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). For this reason, we focus on main challenges related for decision-making in Digital Triplets (D3s) and discuss some example cases from the literature. Also, we present some preliminary results of a Multivocal Literature Review (MLR) study that covers both Systematic Literature Review (SLR) and Grey Literature (GL).  Developing a logic model for enhanced decision-making is ongoing.

Biography: Kamil Erkan Kabak received his BSc degree from the Department of Environmental Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey in 2000. Then, he received his MSc degree from the Department of Industrial Engineering, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey and his PhD from the Department of Design and Manufacturing Technology, University of Limerick, Ireland in 2011. Dr Kabak was involved in various projects supported by the Enterprise Ireland with high-tech companies on complex manufacturing systems and simulation modelling applications during his doctoral studies and worked at the Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) in University of Limerick, Ireland. He was the first recipient of Early Career Researchers Award given by the International Foundation of Production Research (IFPR) Scientific Committee. Also, he had experience on working as a consultant and project coordinator at projects supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (Tübitak). His research interests include simulation modelling along with its analysis and control methods, semiconductor manufacturing, and production planning. He works at the Department of Industrial Engineering at Izmir University of Economics in Turkey, and his current studies are on Digital Twin technologies on the production systems. He is currently an academic visitor to Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, supported by the International Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (Tübitak).

Published: 10 March 2026