Building Digital Shadows for Production Control

Digital Shadows can support stakeholders in production control by providing context-aware and aggregated information serving a specific task and thus supporting in the decision-making. In this paper, we propose a methodology for building Digital Shadows with focus on production control. We identify the building blocks for defining Digital Shadows consisting of purpose, models and data. Furthermore, we suggest an implementation for the methodology as a decision support tool for the stakeholders in production control. Finally, we illustrate the use of our methodology on the basis of a exemplary use-case of production control.