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This paper presents a timely opportunity for manufacturing researchers to ontologize a digital twin framework for manufacturing by using recently published international standards. An ISO/IEC 21838 series of standards was released recently to address ‘top-level’ ontologies. These standards have been used by industrial consortia to release standards called ‘mid-level’ ontologies. One such ‘mid-level’ ontology standards is the Industrial Ontologies Foundry (IOF) Core. Around the same time, an ISO 23247 series of standards was released to standardize a digital twin framework, specifically for the manufacturing domain. This paper proposes to apply existing top-level and mid-level ontologies to create a ‘domain-level’ ontology for a digital twin framework for manufacturing. This domain-level ontology can then be used to create a manufacturing sector-specific digital twin ontology, called the ‘application-level’ ontology. In this paper, that application-level is the biomanufacturing sector. This paper also calls for a collaborative effort to create and deploy these two bottom-level ontologies and the digital twin standards associated with them.

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Drobnjakovic, M., Shao, G., Nikolov, A., Kulvatunyou, B., Frechette, S., Srinivasan, V. (2023). Towards Ontologizing a Digital Twin Framework for Manufacturing. In: Alfnes, E., Romsdal, A., Strandhagen, J.O., von Cieminski, G., Romero, D. (eds) Advances in Production Management Systems. Production Management Systems for Responsible Manufacturing, Service, and Logistics Futures. APMS 2023. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 690. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43666-6_22

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