Open Source Drives Digital Twin Adoption
innovation in Industrial IoT to shorten time to value .” 21 OMP aims for both published best practices and encourage open code development . It is not dedicated to Digital Twin technology only , but the Semantic Data Structuring working group , contributes to it . This working group addresses the “ needs to share , join and reuse heterogeneous data of the manufacturing domain by applying common semantics for various stakeholders through comprehensive semantic data homogenization and by conveying manufacturing data along with contextual information .”
Digital Twin Consortium ( DTC )
DTC was formed under the umbrella of the Object Management Group ( OMG ), a standards organization that supports the development of open standards . The DTC is not a standards organization , but provides guidance to address market confusion , interoperability challenges , and managing the risk of implementing Digital Twins in industrial and commercial settings .
The DTC industry working groups have a vertical market focus and currently consist of Manufacturing , Infrastructure , Healthcare and Life Sciences , Aviation and Defense and Natural Resources groups .
The horizontal working groups include the Marketing and the Technology , Terminology and Taxonomy ( 3T ) focus areas . The 3T Working Group has further subgroups that focus on Security and Trustworthiness , as well as Open Source and Platform Stacks .
A primary focus for the DTC is the overall Digital Twin lifecycle and the different requirements of a Digital Twin as it evolves through its lifecycle . The Digital Twin lifecycle includes the digital thread , as well as that of the physical entity or asset that it supports .
The DTC provides an Open Source repository where vendors and end users can contribute various elements to accelerate the adoption of Digital Twins . Contributions may include Open Source code implementations , collaborative documents for guidance and training , Open Source models , or other assets that are of value to the Digital Twin community .
The cross-pollination by the different industry-focused working groups provides the opportunity for different industries to learn from each other and improve collaboration around architectures , tools and open-source contributions .
Industrial Digital Twin Association ( IDTA )
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