Digital twin (DT) technology allows the user to monitor the asset, specifically over the
operation and service phase of the life cycle, which is the longest-lasting phase for complex …

In a dynamic and rapidly changing world, customers' often conflicting demands have
continued to evolve, outstripping the ability of the traditional factory to address modern-day …

Modularized construction with precast concrete elements has many advantages, such as
shorter construction times, higher quality, flexibility, and lower costs. These advantages are …

Capability ontologies are increasingly used to model functionalities of systems or machines.
The creation of such onto-logical models with all properties and constraints of capabilities is …

Digital twin technology establishes the future development vision for Industry 4.0, and is also
an important exploration direction for the Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) paradigm …

In this work we emphasize the role of the engineering process within the industrial
automation domain and its underrepresentation in the Industry 4.0 community possibly …

Industry 4.0 currently prepares a major shift towards extreme flexibility into production lines
management. Digital Twins are one of the key enabling technologies for Industry 4.0 …

To achieve a flexible and adaptable system, capabil-ity ontologies are increasingly
leveraged to describe functions in a machine-interpretable way. However, modeling such …

Feasibility checking is a step in manufacturing system engineering for verifying the
normalization and effectiveness of a manufacturing system associated with a specific …

Highly connected cyber-physical systems and the increasing popularity of the Plug-and-
Work approach contribute to rising system complexity. This rise in complexity often hinders …