Purpose: Digital Twins attract much attention in science and practice, because of their capability to integrate operational data from a wide variety of sources. Thus, providing a complete overview of an asset throughout its entire life cycle. This article develops and demonstrates a Digital...

Purpose: Industry 4.0 provides significant potentials for companies. Despite the promising opportunities, companies, especially SME, are still hesitant to implement new technologies. The main reasons are far-reaching changes with respect to the socio-technical dimensions causing risks that are...

Front Cover -- Digital Twin Driven Smart Manufacturing -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Background and Connotation -- 1 Background and Concept of Digital Twin -- 1.1 Background of the Development of Digital Twin -- 1.2 History of Digital Twin -- 1.3 Concept of Digital Twin -- 1.3.1...