Modelling the Digital Twin for Data-Driven Product Development - A Literature Review

Due to advanced connectivity and increasing distribution of product-service, more and more data is available from the products used and produced. Scientific publications often describe that this product data can be applied in product development to make it more efficient and that the digital twin can play a central role in data provision and interoperability. However, less attention is paid to how the digital twin should be designed for this purpose and how it should be adequately modelled for these use cases. Therefore, this paper presents a structured literature review to analyse which methods are already described in science to model digital twins in a target-oriented way for use cases of data-driven product development. Not only are the procedures interesting, but also the type of digital twin for which they are intended and whether they describe the procedure at the level of a rough macrostructure or detailed microstructure.