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Open Source Drives Digital Twin Adoption
INTRODUCTION
“ Digital Twin ” has been listed as an emerging technology during past years and more and more companies offer Digital Twin as part of a foundation for their digital offerings . However , there has not been consensus on what a Digital Twin is and what characteristics it should have . Some refer the origin of Digital Twin to an academic paper , where Digital Twin was defined as a combination of physical product , virtual product and their connections 1 . Some also claim that Digital Twin existed in industrial applications under different names 2 . One could observe that lack of a common definition for Digital Twin has led to many flavors of this concept , sometimes making readers wonder whether Digital Twin is more than just a buzzword at all . Several literatures discussed the definitions 3 4 5 and requirements 6 7 that Digital Twins could have .
As the first step to clarify the role of Digital Twin in various sectors , various consortiums and committees such as the Industrial Internet Consortium ( IIC ) 8 and Plattform Industrie 4.0 9 each
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M . Grieves , “ Digital twin : Manufacturing excellence through virtual factory replication ,” White paper , 2014 . [ Online ]. Available : http :// www . apriso . com / library / Whitepaper _ Dr _ Grieves _ DigitalTwin _ ManufacturingExcellence . php
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Somayeh Malakuti , Jan Schlake , Christopher Ganz , Eric Harper , Heiko Petersen , “ Digital Twin : An Enabler for New Business Models ”, Automation 2019
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E . Glaessgen and D . Stargel , “ The digital twin paradigm for future NASA and U . S . Air Force vehicles ,” in Proc . 53rd AIAA / ASME / ASCE / AHS / ASC Struct . Struct . Dyn . Mater . Conf ., 2012 . [ Online ]. Available : https :// arc . aiaa . org / doi / pdf / 10.2514 / 6.2012-1818
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Stark R , Anderl R , Thoben K-D , Wartzack S . WiGeP-Positionspapier : „ Digitaler Zwilling “. ZWF 2020 .
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Elisa Negri , Luca Fumagalli , Marco Macchi , editors . A Review of the Roles of Digital Twin in CPS-based Production Systems . Elsevier 2017 .
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Moyne , James & Qamsane , Yassine & Balta , Efe & Kovalenko , Ilya & Faris , John & Barton , Kira & Tilbury , Dawn . ( 2020 ). A Requirements Driven Digital Twin Framework : Specification and Opportunities . IEEE Access . PP . 1-1 . 10.1109 / ACCESS . 2020.3000437 .
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Digital Twin Requirements in the Context of Industry 4.0 , Product Lifecycle Management to Support Industry 4.0 , 2018 , Volume 540 , ISBN : 978-3-030-01613-5 , Luiz Fernando C . S . Durão , Sebastian Haag , Reiner Anderl , Klaus Schützer , Eduardo Zancul
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IIC Industrial Internet of Things Vocabulary , https :// www . iiconsortium . org / vocab /
9 Digital Twin and Asset Administration Shell Concepts and Application in the Industrial Internet and
Industrie 4.0 - An Industrial Internet Consortium and Plattform Industrie 4.0 Joint Whitepaper - https :// www . plattform-i40 . de / PI40 / Redaktion / EN / Downloads / Publikation / Digital-Twin-and-Asset- Administration-Shell-Concepts . html
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