CONVERGING: Discover the Role of Digital Twins in Building Smarter, Connected Manufacturing Systems

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CONVERGING: Discover the Role of Digital Twins in Building Smarter, Connected Manufacturing Systems

30 May 2025 / Comments

In an era where interoperability, digitalisation, and automation are becoming essential for manufacturing excellence, the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) stands at the forefront of enabling truly connected Industry 4.0 ecosystems. As part of its mission to accelerate human-centred and intelligent manufacturing, the CONVERGING project—co-funded by the EU Horizon Europe programme (Grant Agreement No. 101058521)—delivers a powerful knowledge-sharing webinar on how AAS is shaping the future of industrial integration.

🎥 Watch the Webinar Replay
Title: Mastering Asset Administration Shell Modelling
Speaker: Emilio Costa Tobío, AIMEN Technology Centre
📅 Date: 21 May 2025

💡 What You’ll Learn

In this expert-led webinar, Emilio Costa Tobío breaks down the core structure and purpose of the Asset Administration Shell, showcasing how AAS serves as a standardised digital twin of physical and virtual assets—from machines and components to software, processes, and even business logic.

Key takeaways include:

  • 📦 Introduction to AAS and its critical role in enabling plug-and-produce manufacturing

  • 🧠 Types of AAS and their interaction models: file-based, API-driven, and peer-to-peer

  • 🧩 Deep Dive into Submodels: How assets’ properties, events, capabilities, and documents are digitally structured

  • 🔄 Semantic Interoperability: Using concept descriptions and identifiers for meaningful machine-to-machine communication

  • 🔧 Hands-on Applications: Real-world modelling of Product-Process-Resource (PPR), Digital Product Passports (DPP), and more

  • 📚 Tools & Standards: Explore the IDTA ecosystem, official submodel templates, and implementation toolkits like Eclipse BaSyx and AIMEN's own shell toolkit

 

🌍 Why It Matters

The Asset Administration Shell is the backbone of the Industrial Digital Twin, enabling seamless communication between heterogeneous systems, machines, and platforms. As factories evolve toward modular, scalable, and AI-enabled production, mastering AAS is essential to achieving cross-company interoperability, sustainability, and lifecycle data continuity.

Whether you’re a systems integrator, automation engineer, or digital transformation leader, this webinar is your entry point into realising the full potential of Industry 4.0 architectures.

 

🔗 About the CONVERGING Project

CONVERGING aims to deploy inclusive, collaborative, and human-centric production environments supported by robotics, AI, digital twins, and trusted automation. By implementing advanced technologies across pilot sites in key industrial sectors, the project contributes to the development of safe, sustainable, and data-driven manufacturing.