The industry/consulting term is "digital twin". Nothing off the shelf, since every plant is different. Even for a single process it gets complicated really fast. You probably want to track the environment itself too like temperature, humidity, leaks, etc. All the machinery and if they don't have necessary sensors, gotta retrofit them. Oh and human workers too. Stuff like "John Doe pressed a manual override button at 9:25 AM" or "it takes 12 minutes for a forklift operator to move a pallet from zone A to C".
I was involved in a project that made such a twin for a warehouse. It was simpler in theory because there was no manufacturing process. Just moving objects from one place to another. It was still expensive and took a long time. We tracked traffic heatmap but also collected data on and modelled luminosity for safety. On top of that there was a standard warehouse space optimization.
You're going to run into similar problems as with testing and documenting code. Eventually something will change - a process, a machine, a sensor. You have to stay on top of things and update your model too. Otherwise they will drift apart and not be as useful.
I was involved in a project that made such a twin for a warehouse. It was simpler in theory because there was no manufacturing process. Just moving objects from one place to another. It was still expensive and took a long time. We tracked traffic heatmap but also collected data on and modelled luminosity for safety. On top of that there was a standard warehouse space optimization.
You're going to run into similar problems as with testing and documenting code. Eventually something will change - a process, a machine, a sensor. You have to stay on top of things and update your model too. Otherwise they will drift apart and not be as useful.