Approach for Developing Digital Twins of Smart Products Based on Linked Lifecycle Information

DS 116: Proceedings of the DESIGN2022 17th International Design Conference

Year: 2022
Editor: Mario Štorga, Stanko Škec, Tomislav Martinec, Dorian Marjanović
Author: Thomas Eickhoff, Sven Forte, Jens Christian G
Series: DESIGN
Institution: Technische Universit
Section: Artificial Intelligence and Data-Driven Design
Page(s): 1559-1568
DOI number: https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2022.158
ISSN: 2732-527X (Online)

Abstract

The ongoing digitization of engineering processes and the increasing prevalence of smart products create possibilities for new business models and services. Digital twins enable the collection of all required data about a smart product in order to make these possibilities a reality. This paper describes a flexible approach towards a digital product twin that is tightly integrated with existing product models while being lightweight and easy to integrate with existing IT solutions.

Keywords: digital twin, product lifecycle management (PLM), digital thread, process improvement, data-driven design