Shades of Digital Twinning
emerging technologies that urgently need
standards, noting that “many industries are
evolving rapidly as the digital transformation
towards the fourth industrial revolution
advances. The challenge to develop relevant
standards will be more complicated with
many more points to consider than
previously.” 11
Figure 1: Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2018
manufacturing, since the term shell has been
used in IT for a command line interpreter for
controlling an operating system for more
than 40 years. Asset Administration Shell
conjures up the idea of a way of controlling
edge devices. Nonetheless, its use in IEC PAS
Emerging Standards and the Asset
Administration Shell
The German Plattform Industrie 4.0 selected
the unfortunate term, Asset Administration
Shell, 12 as their name for any digital model of
a physical device used in smart
11 https://jtc1info.org/technology/jeti/
12 https://www.arcweb.com/blog/concepts-applications-i40-asset-administration-shell
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