Abstract

Digital twins becoming more prevalent: They are being used to support the design, operations, and analysis of complex systems in many domains, such as automotive, agriculture, avionics, construction, or medicine, and comprise much information about the systems and processes of the twinned system. Currently, digital twins are designed and engineered ad-hoc, in a piecemeal fashion. This hampers the research and application of digital twins. Based on our interdisciplinary research regarding the ``Internet of Production'', we combine model-driven methods for the sustainable engineering of information systems, software architectures, and software language engineering to systematically engineer digital twins. Within this chapter, we discuss challenges on the road to a systematic engineering of digital twins, present our model-driven approach for the engineering of them as well as possible implementations. Our insights may guide researchers and practitioners to sustainable, planned, and efficient engineering and operations.

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