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OT500: Digital Twins in Industry 4.0

Training: Industry 4.0

Participants gain a comprehensive understanding of Industry 4.0 and digital twins. The course covers fundamentals, concepts, and implementation using the Eclipse BaSyx middleware. In practical exercises, participants create administration shell–based digital twins for various use cases and deepen their knowledge through discussions and hands-on activities.

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Presence training	2025-12-08 \| 10:00 am	2025-12-10 \| 04:30 pm	Nürnberg

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Presence training

Start: 2025-12-08 | 10:00 am

End: 2025-12-10 | 04:30 pm

Location: Nürnberg

Price: 2.490,00 € plus VAT.

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Agenda:

The industrial revolutions, Industry 1.0 – 4.0

Objective: Understanding the necessity of (cross-enterprise) information models
Industry 4.0 means end-to-end digitalization
Within the enterprise, across production lines, along supply chains, along the lifecycle
A "common language" is required for this
Discussion: Have you already been confronted with challenges in implementing Industry 4.0?

Maturity levels, opportunities and potentials of Industry 4.0

Objective: Getting to know the Industry 4.0 maturity levels, assessing Industry 4.0 maturity, getting to know the potentials of digitalization
Getting to know Industry 4.0 use cases
Assessing the maturity levels required for implementing these use cases based on Acatech
maturity model
Discussion: Discussion of Industry 4.0 use cases of the participants and their classification in the
maturity model
Understanding how Digital Twins fulfill the requirements for maturity level 4+
Discussion: Digital Twins

Digital Twins

Objective: Understanding the concept of the Digital Twin and getting to know its basic functionality
Which aspects of an asset must a Digital Twin represent to support a use case?
Basic components of a Digital Twin (static data, dynamic data, services, prediction models)
Types and instances of assets and their Digital Twins
Interaction with assets and other Digital Twins
Manifestations of Digital Twins (Digital Shadow, complete Digital Twin, ...)
Discussion: How do early Industry 4.0 solutions fundamentally differ from Digital Twins?

Implementing Digital Twins

Objective: Getting to know the Asset Administration Shell and submodels as the foundation of Digital Twins, and overview of the community
Asset administration shells and submodels
Overview of currently existing submodels and the Industry 4.0 community
Overview of the Industry 4.0 community
Discussion: Implementing selected use cases on maturity levels 3, 4, 5/6 with asset administration shell

Software infrastructure for operating Digital Twins

Objective: Getting to know the software infrastructure for Digital Twins, ability to install and configure it
Getting to know the Eclipse BaSyx software infrastructure for operating Digital Twins and its components
Hands-On: Installation and getting to know the basic components of Eclipse BaSyx
Hands-On: Functional testing of the installation
Discussion: What was learned

From QR code to device

Objective: Implementing a first Digital Twin
Implementing a simple Digital Twin as representative of a device
Hands-On: Creating a simple Digital Twin of a device (Digital nameplate)
Hands-On: Registering the Digital Twin, functional testing
Hands-On: Data query from the Digital Twin using a QR code
Discussion: What was learned

Digital Twins for condition monitoring

Objective: Digital Twins that represent the current state of a device
Discussion: What are the advantages of using a Digital Twin for condition monitoring?
Extending the Digital Twin with live status
Hands-On: Connecting data sources of a simulated device with its Digital Twin using Eclipse

Integration of device data

Connecting data sources using alternative edge devices
Hands-On: Creating an analysis application using the open-source application Eclipse Streamsheets
Aggregating data from multiple Digital Twins
Hands-On: (Optional) – Creating a dashboard with Grafana
Discussion: Discussion of the various solutions

KPI calculation with Digital Twins

Objective: Learning to perform calculations and thus create derived data for Digital Twins
Understanding the potentials of data and derived data
System architecture for serializing Digital Twins and for performing calculations
Calculating derived data using the Data Bridge and using applications
Hands-On: Calculating the KPI "Overall Equipment Efficiency"
Discussion: Discussion of the various solutions

Digital Twins of products

Objective: Digital Twins that follow a product
Getting to know applications, for example product documentation, CO2 footprint, value change
Challenges in creating and operating Digital Twins for variable assets (line/islands, addresses)
Possible types of products
Effects of manufacturing steps and storage on products
Hands-On: Definition of product types
Hands-On: Definition of workstations and implementation of product tracking
Hands-On: Implementing a Digital Twin of a product
Discussion: Discussion of the various solutions

Recap: Digital Twins for Industry 4.0

Objective: Internalizing central concepts of the Digital Twin and its implementation
Asset Administration Shell is the universal "language" for realizing Digital Twins
Submodels are vocabulary that give meaning to the language
Digital Twins are a logical interface to assets and thus enable cross-asset networking
Discussion: Further use cases, concepts for their implementation

Objectives:

The course OT500 Digital Twins in Industry 4.0 aims to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of the concepts, technologies and applications of Digital Twins. Upon completion of the course, participants should understand and be able to explain the fundamental principles and definitions of Digital Twins. They should be able to identify and describe the essential technological building blocks and system architectures of Digital Twins. Furthermore, participants should be able to analyze and evaluate practical use cases and best practices for the deployment of Digital Twins in various industries. They should be able to plan and successfully implement the steps for development and implementation of a Digital Twin.

Target audience:

The course OT500 Digital Twins in Industry 4.0 is ideal for digitalization officers in enterprises who want to implement innovative technologies for operational process improvement. System integrators who integrate and manage complex IT systems will find valuable approaches and solutions here.
Furthermore, the course is targeted at specialists and executives from the areas of enterprise strategy and development, innovation and technology management, production and factory planning as well as process planning and optimization.

Prerequisites:

For participation in this course OT500 Digital Twins in Industry 4.0, basic knowledge in computer science, engineering or a related field is helpful. A fundamental understanding of automation and programming skills in JAVA are also required.

Description:

The workshop OT500 Digital Twins in Industry 4.0 jointly developed by Fraunhofer™ IESE and qSkills™ provides comprehensive understanding of Digital Twins concept and implementation. Knowledge transfer utilizes a combination of traditional content delivery, discussions and hands-on activities.

The objective of the training is to provide participants with both the fundamentals of Industry 4.0 and Digital Twins, as well as to collaboratively implement Asset Administration Shell-based Digital Twins for different use cases using Eclipse BaSyx middleware.