Digital twin and digital thread within the product lifecycle management
Christine Lehner, Antonio Padovano, Christian Zehetner and Georg Hackenberg
Procedia Computer Science 232, pp. 2875-2886, January 2024
Abstract
In today's VUCA-defined age, accelerated by the rapid digital transformation brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the business sector needs to be able to adapt to expected and unexpected changes. Consistently improving the product quality and managing the whole product life cycle, starting from the new product development (NPD) process, and the related data, are important aspects of keeping a company competitive in a global landscape. This paper highlights the growing potential of Industry 4.0, particularly the digital thread (DTH) and digital twin (DT), in addressing these challenges. The research revealed existing gaps in clarity and practical guidelines for digital twin prototypes (DTP) and DTH in the existing literature. Moreover, additional issues within product life cycle management (PLM) were stated, regarding frequent data loss and the complexity of product audits in the perspective of a continuous …
BibTeX Citation
@ARTICLE{lehner2024digital,
author={Christine Lehner and Antonio Padovano and Christian Zehetner and Georg Hackenberg},
title={Digital twin and digital thread within the product lifecycle management},
year={2024},
journal={Procedia Computer Science},
volume={232},
pages={2875-2886},
publisher={Elsevier}
}