Aims & Scope

While digital twin is increasingly applied at individual process or system levels, a key open challenge lies in its vertical integration across manufacturing hierarchies. This special session aims to explore challenges, architectures, and methodologies for vertically integrated digital twins that consistently link process- and system-level models in manufacturing systems. The session emphasizes cross-level model coupling, data and semantic consistency, and coordinated analysis and decision-making across digital twin layers. Contributions addressing theoretical foundations, integration frameworks, and industrial implementations are particularly encouraged.

The session will focus on the following aspects:

• • Concepts, reference architectures, and standards for vertically integrated digital twins
• • Cross-scale coupling of process and system digital twin models
• • Case studies and lessons learned from vertically integrated manufacturing digital twins

Call for Presentations

Call for Presentations is now open. We welcome researchers and industry professionals to  submit their presentation proposals.

Please see the Call for Presentations for details.