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Operational Resilience in the Industrial Metaverse: Quantifying the Infrastructure Requirements for Low-Latency Supply Chain Coordination

Ayoub El Ouardi(Abdelmalek Essaâdi University)0009-0001-8226-0708
Otman Abdoun(Abdelmalek Essaâdi University)0000-0002-9580-8955
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2026-07-02
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These results suggest that for sup-ply chain resilience, the Metaverse’s primary value lies not in visualization fidelity but in the speed of state synchronization, serving as a low-latency control plane for distributed decision-making.

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Objective & Hypothesis:The Industrial Metaverse concept posits real-time coordination across distributed operations, yet the infrastructure specifications required to deliver operational value remain unquantified.
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Key Findings & Data:Through a full factorial experiment and baseline comparisons (1,440 runs across two topologies), we demonstrate that Metaverse-grade coordination, when paired with visibility-aware ordering (VAOH), re-duces cumulative backlog by 85.3% relative to the best-performing baseline.
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⚙️Variables:Industrial Metaverse · Digital Twin · Sup-ply Chain Resilience

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The Industrial Metaverse concept posits real-time coordination across distributed operations, yet the infrastructure specifications required to deliver operational value remain unquantified. We introduce the Coordination-Aware Disruption Twin (CADT), an agent-based simulation frame-work that isolates the effects of visibility scope, synchronization latency, and data fidelity. Through a full factorial experiment and baseline comparisons (1,440 runs across two topologies), we demonstrate that Metaverse-grade coordination, when paired with visibility-aware ordering (VAOH), re-duces cumulative backlog by 85.3% relative to the best-performing baseline. Traditional dashboards, which offer identical visibility but higher latency, achieve a 47% reduction. A key finding is that latency explains 67.6% of performance variance (η2 = 0.676), while sensor noise explains effectively none (η2 < 0.001, p > 0.05). A noisy real-time Meta-verse (σ = 0.2) outperforms a perfect-fidelity but delayed dashboard. These results suggest that for sup-ply chain resilience, the Metaverse’s primary value lies not in visualization fidelity but in the speed of state synchronization, serving as a low-latency control plane for distributed decision-making.

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Ouardi, A. E., Abdoun, O. (2026). Operational Resilience in the Industrial Metaverse: Quantifying the Infrastructure Requirements for Low-Latency Supply Chain Coordination. Journal of Metaverse, Issue: 6. https://doi.org/10.57019/jmv.1897118

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