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A Digital Twin Description Framework and its Mapping to Asset Administration Shell

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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 mapping from our description framework to the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) which is an emerging standard for Industry 4.0 system integration. This mapping aids practitioners in understanding how our description framework relates to AAS, potentially aiding in description or implementation activities.

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Bentley James Oakes, Ali Parsai, Bart Meyers, Istvan David, Simon Van Mierlo, Serge Demeyer, Joachim Denil, Paul De Meulenaere, Hans Vangheluwe. 2023-08-10. A Digital Twin Description Framework and its Mapping to Asset Administration Shell. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38821-7_1

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