Simultaneous Multi-stakeholder Digital Twinning for Anticipated Production Environments

Establishing, monitoring, or changing production environments involves significant time, efforts and investments. Digital Twins, Digital Prototypes and Digital Masters, provide different perspectives on these production environments. To utilise these perspectives effectively and efficiently as tooling in the development trajectory and operation of production environments, adequate employment is required. This activity, referred to as 'digital twinning', enables anticipating and experiencing the behaviour of envisaged production environments, while simultaneously reducing technical, logistic, and financial risks. Digital twinning also addresses the alignment between these digital support systems and the production environment, in terms of effectiveness, quality, and configurability. This paper focusses on providing a framework that oversees the configuration possibilities that different configurations of a digital twin and digital prototype have. The framework allows for a functional and structured configuration of these tools, depending on the use condition and demands of the stakeholders.