In manufacturing, digital twins, realized as Asset Administration Shells (AAS), have emerged as a prevalent practice. These digital replicas, often utilized as structured repositories of asset-related data, facilitate interoperability across diverse systems. However, extant approaches treat the AAS as a static information model, lacking support for dynamic service integration and system adaptation. The existing body of literature has not yet thoroughly explored the potential for integrating executable behavior, particularly in the form of containerized services, into or from the AAS. This integration could serve to enable proactive functionality. In this paper, we propose a submodel-based architecture that introduces a structured service notion to the AAS, enabling services to dynamically interact with and adapt AAS instances at runtime. This concept is implemented through the extension of a submodel with behavioral definitions, resulting in a modular event-driven architecture capable of deploying containerized services based on embedded trigger conditions. The approach is illustrated through a case study on a 3-axis milling machine. Our contribution enables the AAS to serve not only as a passive digital representation but also as an active interface for executing added-value services, thereby laying the foundation for future AI-driven adaptation and system-level intelligence in digital twin environments.

Wed 8 Oct

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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
18m
Talk
A Method for Model-Driven Engineering of Digital Twins in ManufacturingPT@In Person
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
18m
Talk
An architecture for coupled digital twins with semantic liftingIn Person
Journal-First
Santiago Gil Aarhus University, Eduard Kamburjan IT University of Copenhagen, Prasad Talasila Aarhus University, Peter Larsen
DOI
11:36
18m
Talk
Continuous Evolution of Digital Twins using the DarTwin NotationRemote
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
18m
Talk
A Container-based Approach For Proactive Asset Administration Shell Digital TwinsRemote
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
18m
Talk
Digital twin and the asset administration shell - An Analysis of the Three Types of AASs and their Feasibility for Digital Twin EngineeringRemote
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