Abstract The concept of Digital Twin is almost twenty years old, posing an enhancement of
well-known concepts like Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) and Product Lifecycle …

The interest towards Industry 4.0 is growing since its inception. Its introduction has many
impacts on the whole supply chain and requires companies to rethink the way they design …

Disruptive technologies such as 3D printing, artificial intelligence (AI), and robotics have
changed how people think, learn, and work fundamentally. Engineering education must …

The process of creating value includes the creation of new offerings. Such a procedure
needs to be conceptually designed and practically carried out. Here, the emphasis is on how …

The tread towards manufacturing digitalization facilitates the establishment of a uniform
cyber-physical manufacturing world, which forms metaverse of cloud manufacturing (CMfg) …

There are numerous initiatives and lighthouse projects around Gaia-X to create the basics of
open, trustworthy data ecosystems. One of the challenges in building these data ecosystems …

Due to the rising digitalization in the past few years, even more data can be collected from
smart products and sensors to describe the real world, goods, environments, and newly …

The process of creating value includes the creation of new offerings. Such a procedure
needs to be conceptually designed and practically carried out. Here, the emphasis is on how …

The need for human-centric perspectives on smart automation are increasing as new
technological advancements and global societal changes continuously re-shapes the …

In the absence of an axiomatic and rigorous foundation, Services risk, at best, being a
narrow multi/inter-disciplinary domain At worst, it is a trade or a craft like plumbing or …