Supporting Changes in Digital Ownership and Data Sovereignty Across the Automotive Value Chain with Catena-X

TL;DR

This paper compares three approaches for managing Digital Twins in industrial automotive contexts, focusing on updates, data ownership, and sovereignty within the Catena-X project to support digital ownership and data sovereignty.

Contribution

It introduces and evaluates three novel approaches for managing Digital Twins across vehicle lifecycles, emphasizing data sovereignty and ownership in industrial settings.

Findings

Digital Twins management approaches differ in update mechanisms

Data ownership and sovereignty are critical in Digital Twins lifecycle

Catena-X project provides practical insights into Digital Twins management

Abstract

Digital Twins have evolved as a concept describing digital representations of physical assets. They can be used to facilitate simulations, monitoring, or optimization of product lifecycles. Considering the concept of a Circular Economy, which entails several lifecycles of, e.g., vehicles, their components, and materials, it is important to investigate how the respective Digital Twins are managed over the lifecycle of their physical assets. This publication presents and compares three approaches for managing Digital Twins in industrial use cases. The analysis considers aspects such as updates, data ownership, and data sovereignty. The results based on the research project Catena-X