Digital twin and the asset administration shell - An Analysis of the Three Types of AASs and their Feasibility for Digital Twin Engineering
Engineering digital twins is a software and systems engineering challenge for which no systematic approach exists. The Asset Administration Shell is becoming a popular foundation for digital twins in Industry 4.0 and it comes in different types that support the engineering of different kinds and parts of digital twins. We investigate how it supports realizing common requirements for digital twins. To this end, we investigate how each of the three Asset Administration Shell types can contribute to the systematic engineering of specific components of digital twins. Therefore, we analyzed popular definitions and conceptual models of digital twins and extracted requirements that at least two of them share. We compare the resulting requirements with Asset Administration Shells of different types and conclude with open challenges in the implementation of digital twins with this technology. This supports practitioners and researchers in identifying the most suitable type of Asset Administration Shell for their specific digital twin engineering needs and identifies gaps worthy of future research toward a systematic engineering of digital twins.
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11:00 - 12:30 | Session 1: Digital Twins and Cyber-Physical SystemsNew Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) / Journal-First / Research Papers at DCIH 102 Chair(s): Khouloud Gaaloul University of Michigan - Dearborn Hybrid | ||
11:00 18mTalk | A Method for Model-Driven Engineering of Digital Twins in ManufacturingPT Research Papers Malte Heithoff RWTH-Aachen University, Judith Michael University of Regensburg, Bernhard Rumpe RWTH Aachen University, Jérôme Pfeiffer University of Stuttgart, Germany, Andreas Wortmann University of Stuttgart, Jingxi Zhang University of Stuttgart Pre-print | ||
11:18 18mTalk | An architecture for coupled digital twins with semantic lifting Journal-First Santiago Gil Aarhus University, Eduard Kamburjan IT University of Copenhagen, Prasad Talasila Aarhus University, Peter Larsen DOI | ||
11:36 18mTalk | Continuous Evolution of Digital Twins using the DarTwin Notation Journal-First Joost Mertens University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Stefan Klikovits Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Francis Bordeleau École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS), Joachim Denil University of Antwerp, Belgium, Øystein Haugen Østfold University College DOI | ||
11:54 18mTalk | A Container-based Approach For Proactive Asset Administration Shell Digital Twins New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) Carsten Ellwein nstitute for Control Engineering of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Units (ISW), University of Stuttgart,, Jingxi Zhang University of Stuttgart, Andreas Wortmann University of Stuttgart, Antony Ayman Alfy Meckhael Faculty of Media Engineering and Technology (MET), German University in Cairo | ||
12:12 18mTalk | Digital twin and the asset administration shell - An Analysis of the Three Types of AASs and their Feasibility for Digital Twin Engineering Journal-First Jingxi Zhang University of Stuttgart, Carsten Ellwein nstitute for Control Engineering of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Units (ISW), University of Stuttgart,, Malte Heithoff RWTH-Aachen University, Judith Michael University of Regensburg, Andreas Wortmann University of Stuttgart DOI | ||