Reference paper: "Implementation of digital twins in the process industry: A systematic literature review of enablers and barriers"
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"Since the introduction of the concept of “digital twins” (DTs) in 2002, the number of practical applications in different industrial sectors has grown rapidly." and the concept has evolved over the years.
"From an overall perspective, DTs can be defined as virtual representations of physical assets enabled through data and simulators for real-time prediction, optimization, monitoring, controlling, and improved decision making (Rasheed et al., 2020)"
"However, DTs started attracting worldwide attention only in 2016"
"One of the technologies under the Industry 4.0 umbrella is digital twins (DTs). The initial practical implementations of DTs were in the aerospace industry (Negri et al., 2017), but DTs are increasingly being used in a wide variety of contexts, including but not limited to construction (Opoku et al., 2021), healthcare (Semeraro et al., 2021), industrial production (Negri et al., 2017, Rasheed et al., 2020, Kritzinger et al., 2018), aviation (Mandolla et al., 2019) and automotive (Alcácer and Cruz-Machado, 2019) industries, meteorology, education and building smart cities (Rasheed et al., 2020) or entire countries (Bolton et al., 2018)."
"Therefore, in recent years several standard development organizations (SDOs) have been working on standardizing the definition of DTs to facilitate common understanding, align stakeholder requirements and expectations, and improve clarity on the topic (Minerva et al., 2020)."