An interview with Kaishi Zhang focused on data interoperability relating to industrial automation

A thorough review of production system digital twin literature and market with quantified results

A short clear article focused on use cases for digital twins in manufacturing.

This article looks at how intelligent digital twins will be able to improve manufacturing and bring about continuous improvement.

A robust research paper focused on the question: “How does the digital twin concept support the realisation of an integrated, flexible and collaborative manufacturing environment as one of the goals projected by the fourth industrial revolution?”

A case study that walks through the practical issues faced when trying to reduce maintenance costs with a manufacturing digital twin

Several years old, this article still bears reading because the issues involve in smart manufacturing remain the same. A single phrase sums this up: “from the perspective of evolution, convergence is also the inevitable trend”

The SAS content piece advocates that heart of a digital twin is analytics. Not whether you can collect the data, but whether you can turn it from data to valuable transformative information.

An fairly generic introduction to Siemens thinking around digital twins—focused on product, production, and performance.

This article outlines digital twin benefits with a case study of a company deploying warehouse automation software.