Implementing Digital Twins in SMEs: A Step-by-Step Methodology for Digital Production Twins

The Digital Twin has become a hot topic in many industries, which means that more and more companies are starting to familiarise themselves with the technology. This paper presents a step-by-step approach for introducing a Digital Twin in a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME). The approach is specifically related to the creation of a Digital Production Twin and combines a comprehensive scientific methodology with an easily applicable approach for SMEs. This work provides a general overview of the methodology and explains its general structure.