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IFIP International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management

PLM 2021: Product Lifecycle Management. Green and Blue Technologies to Support Smart and Sustainable Organizations pp 257–271Cite as

Enhancing Product Test Management by Using Digital Twins for Device Under Test Analysis

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New paths for product lifecycle management methods and IT tools appeared throughout traditional products evolving to smart products due to recent information and communication technology innovations. While some led to new, disruptive solutions, for example, reconfigurable smart products during their use phase based on digital twins, some others support or even enhance existing product lifecycle activities. Focusing on the latter, this contribution introduces how digital twins can be used in early product development phases to support the testing and subsequential evaluation of prototypes. Therefore, a test management approach is described that allows the integration of digital twins of devices under test, following a systematical exploration of their potential benefit on real-time analysis during and after the test run. Finally, the results were prototypically implemented by modeling a test environment in a product lifecycle management tool, including managing and analyzing digital twins of product instances.

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This research and development project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the “Innovations for Tomorrow’s Production, Services, and Work” Program and implemented by the Project Management Agency Karlsruhe (PTKA). The author is responsible for the content of this publication. For more details about the project, visit www.akkord-projekt.de/en.

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    Philipp Savarino & Thomas Dickopf

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    Frédéric Noël

  3. École de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, QC, Canada

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Savarino, P., Dickopf, T. (2022). Enhancing Product Test Management by Using Digital Twins for Device Under Test Analysis. In: Canciglieri Junior, O., Noël, F., Rivest, L., Bouras, A. (eds) Product Lifecycle Management. Green and Blue Technologies to Support Smart and Sustainable Organizations. PLM 2021. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 640. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94399-8_19

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