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A Digital Twin Description Framework and Its Map** to Asset Administration Shell

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Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD 2021, MODELSWARD 2022)

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Abstract

The pace of reporting on Digital Twin (DT) projects continues to accelerate both in industry and academia. However, these experience reports often leave out essential characteristics of the DT, such as the scope of the system-under-study, the insights and actions enabled, and the time-scale of processing. A lack of these details could therefore hamper both understanding of these DTs and development of DT tools and techniques. Our previous work developed a DT description framework with fourteen characteristics as a checklist for experience report authors to better describe the capabilities of their DT projects. This report provides an extended example of reporting to highlight the utility of this description framework, focusing on the DT of an industrial drilling machine. Furthermore, we provide a map** from our description framework to the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) which is an emerging standard for Industry 4.0 system integration. This map** aids practitioners in understanding how our description framework relates to AAS, potentially aiding in description or implementation activities.

B. Oakes carried out the majority of this work at the University of Antwerp.

S. Van Mierlo is now employed at EP &C Patent Attorneys, Belgium.

A. Parsai is now employed at Agfa Offset and Inkjet Solutions, Belgium.

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This research was supported by Flanders Make, the strategic research centre for the manufacturing industry, and was partially funded by the DTDesign ICON (Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship FM/ICON : : HBC.2019.0079) project.

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  1. Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, Canada

    Bentley James Oakes

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    Bentley James Oakes & Istvan David

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    Ali Parsai, Bart Meyers, Joachim Denil, Paul De Meulenaere & Hans Vangheluwe

  4. McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

    Istvan David

  5. University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

    Simon Van Mierlo, Serge Demeyer, Joachim Denil, Paul De Meulenaere & Hans Vangheluwe

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Oakes, B.J. et al. (2023). A Digital Twin Description Framework and Its Map** to Asset Administration Shell. In: Pires, L.F., Hammoudi, S., Seidewitz, E. (eds) Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development. MODELSWARD MODELSWARD 2021 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1708. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38821-7_1

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