Open Source Drives Digital Twin Adoption
different domains and does not recommend single standards but aims to give advice to enable clearer understanding of the current concepts of Digital Twins and available standards and technologies . DTC contributions seek to include Open Source code implementations , collaborative documents for guidance and training , Open Source models , or other assets of value to the Digital Twin community .
Additionally , the Open Source projects of the organizations OMP , CESMII , and GAIA-X will also be providing valuable contributions for the Digital Twins . OMP will be contributing with comprehensive semantic data homogenization for Digital Twins in the manufacturing context . Also , in the manufacturing context , CESMII efforts on the OPC UA Cloud Library , by providing open data models , is a crucial contribution to enable interoperable machine-to-machine ( M2M ) communication via Digital Twins . In a wider context , GAIA-X will contribute with use cases and implementations of components for Digital Twins to fulfill security and data sovereignty requirements .
Analogous to the modern development approach for software applications , interoperable Digital Twins will be assembled using the components developed within Open Source communities . Enterprises and vendors will be able to combine these Open Source components with their proprietary technologies to build applications and systems that make a differentiation in the market and that provide added value to their customers .
CONCLUSION
The development of standards for Digital Twin is an imperative for setting the necessary foundation to ensure its successful adoption in the market . However , it is clear that an effort based solely on establishing open standards is not enough . In particular , as in the case of Digital Twins and Industry 4.0 / IIoT , where machines are connecting to and converging into the IT world , the demand for enabling software is increasing . Adequate , widely supported and widely adapted Digital Twin Open Source software can establish de facto standards for the underlying architecture of Digital Twins . To keep the pace with faster innovation cycles , it is crucial to leverage the opportunity made available by Open Source as a development approach that has
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