Shaping the digital twin for design and production engineering

TLDR: In this article, the authors propose a reference model based on the concept of Skin Model Shapes, which serves as a digital twin of the physical product in design and manufacturing, and address model conceptualization, representation, and implementation as well as applications along the product life cycle.

About: This article is published in CIRP Annals.The article was published on 2017-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 765 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Product engineering & Production engineering.

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Fig. 2. Physical Twin and Reference Model for the Digital Twin (Representation and Abstraction).

Fig. 4. Digital Twin for Geometrical Variations Management

Fig. 3. Different Operations on the Physical and the Digital Twin throughout the Product Life-Cycle.

Fig. 1. The Vision of the Digital Twin throughout the Product Life-Cycle following [11].

Table 1 Properties of the Reference Model for the Digital Twin.

Frequently asked questions

Q1. What have the authors contributed in "Shaping the digital twin for design and production engineering" ?

In this paper, the authors propose a comprehensive reference model based on the concept of Skin Model Shapes, which serves as a digital twin of the physical product in design and manufacturing. 

Q2. What are the future works in "Shaping the digital twin for design and production engineering" ?

The benefit of this paper for research as well as industrial applications is the provision of a first theoretical and conceptual framework for the digital twin, which is to be enriched by the design and production engineering community in the future and which may lead to a scientific discussion about the vision of the digital twin and its implementation throughout the product life-cycle.