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Digital Twin (DT) has gained great interest as an innovative technology in Industry 4.0 that enables advanced modeling, simulation, and optimization of service and manufacturing systems. This article provides an extensive review of the…
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Digital Twins (DTs) are virtual representations of physical systems synchronized in real time through Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and computational models. In industrial applications, DTs enable predictive maintenance, fault diagnosis,…
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The vision of Industry 4.0 introduces new requirements to Operational Technology (OT) systems. Solutions for these requirements already exist in the Information Technology (IT) world, however, due to the different characteristics of both…
The biopharmaceutical industry is increasingly developing digital twins to digitalize and automate the manufacturing process in response to the growing market demands. However, this shift presents significant challenges for human operators,…
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Digital twins promise a better understanding and use of complex systems. To this end, they represent these systems at their runtime and may interact with them to control their processes. Software engineering is a wicked challenge in which…
Industry 4.0 and beyond will rely heavily on sustainable Business Decision Modelling (BDM) that can be accelerated by blockchain and Digital Twin (DT) solutions. BDM is built on models and frameworks refined by key identification factors,…
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The success of the reconfiguration of existing manufacturing systems, so called brownfield systems, heavily relies on the knowledge about the system. Reconfiguration can be planned, supported and simplified with the Digital Twin of the…
Digital transformation often entails small-scale changes to information systems supporting the execution of business processes. These changes may increase the operational frictions in process execution, which decreases the process…
Modern manufacturing demands high flexibility and reconfigurability to adapt to dynamic production needs. Model-based Engineering (MBE) supports rapid production line design, but final reconfiguration requires simulations and validation.…