Open Source Drives Digital Twin Adoption
Table 1 Overview of Organizations Driving the Digital Twin Technology
Organization |
General Guidance |
Focus on Digital Twins |
Focus on Manufacturing Application |
Open Code |
Open Specification |
Open Development
Model
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OMP |
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IDTA |
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DTC
GAIA-X
CESMII
Legend :
None / no activity Few activities
Many activities
Most activities
All activities
IIC
Plattform Industrie 4.0
Open Industry 4.0 Alliance
From all organizations evaluated in this paper , IDTA and DTC are the ones that exclusively focus their activities on Digital Twins . However , while IDTA focuses on manufacturing applications of Digital Twin , DTC also considers its wider usage across different vertical domains spanning from natural resources to infrastructure , healthcare , and life science . Both are covering full deployment with security and trustworthiness from edge to cloud . Other organizations such as OMP , GAIA-X , CESMII , Open Industry 4.0 Alliance , IIC , and Plattform Industrie 4.0 do not limit their activities around Digital Twins , but also consider topics such as Cloud , Edge , data sovereignty , etc . Of these organizations , only the IIC and GAIA-X has a wider focus beyond manufacturing .
Regarding the development model driving the activities within these organizations , we recognize an increasing trend for open , collaborative models using Open Source as an approach to drive interoperability and standardization . As mentioned above , the newly funded organizations OMP ,
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