Digital Twins for Advanced Manufacturing: The Standardized Approach

Digital TwinsDigital Twins are becoming more prevalent in a wide range of industries such as manufacturing, construction, smart city, and healthcare for various purposes, including observing, predicting, optimizing, and controlling. Digital TwinsDigital Twins are in the early adoption stage. Currently, few standardsStandards directly address Digital TwinsDigital Twins and a commercial ecosystem of Digital TwinsDigital Twins has not been well established. Developing and implementing Digital Twins present significant challenges. Most current Digital Twin applications are customized solutions, which are expensive to create and difficult to integrate with other systems. Foundational work is needed to support an open marketplace for Digital Twin developers, users, and technology service providers. This includes the development of standardized frameworks, reference models, and interfaces to provide a solid foundation for ensuring interoperability, reliability, validity, security, and trust. This Chapter identifies implementation challenges for Digital Twins for manufacturing, reviews relevant standardization efforts, introduces the ISO Digital Twin frameworkDigital Twin framework standard for manufacturing, presents use casesDigital Twin use cases, and discusses potential research topics and future standardization directions.