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Towards a Model-Driven Architecture for Interactive Digital Twin Cockpits

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Conceptual Modeling (ER 2020)

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Digital twins promise tremendous potential to reduce time and cost in the smart manufacturing of Industry 4.0. Engineering and monitoring interactive digital twins currently demands integrating different piecemeal technologies that effectively hinders their application and deployment. Current research on digital twins focuses on specific implementations or abstract models on how digital twins could be conceived. We propose model-driven software engineering to realize interactive digital twins and user-specific cockpits to interact with the digital twin by generating the infrastructure from common data structure models. To this end, we present a model-driven architecture for digital twins, its integration with an interactive cockpit, and a systematic method of realizing both. Through this, modeling, deploying, and monitoring interactive digital twins becomes more feasible and fosters their successful application in smart manufacturing.

Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy - EXC 2023 Internet of Production - 390621612. We thank the Institute for Plastics Processing in Industry and Craft at RWTH Aachen University and the ARBURG GmbH + Co KG for the provided machine equipment.

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    Internet of Production: https://www.iop.rwth-aachen.de.

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    Manuela Dalibor, Judith Michael, Bernhard Rumpe, Simon Varga & Andreas Wortmann

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Dalibor, M., Michael, J., Rumpe, B., Varga, S., Wortmann, A. (2020). Towards a Model-Driven Architecture for Interactive Digital Twin Cockpits. In: Dobbie, G., Frank, U., Kappel, G., Liddle, S.W., Mayr, H.C. (eds) Conceptual Modeling. ER 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12400. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62522-1_28

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