Digital twin technology - external data resources in creating the model and classification of different digital twin types in manufacturing

Digital twin technology is a new technology applied in manufacturing industry. Different types of digital twins may be identified based on the connection and data stream between the physical object and the digital twin. This research focuses on the description of the main features of this new technology and on the newly developed applications due to corporate digital transformation process in the manufacturing industry. Digital transformation in corporate world open up new possibilities for application options of digital twin technology. External data sources such as social media may also be applied for designing and making digital twins in the process of corporate digital transformation process. The development of corporate digital transformation such as artificial intelligence solutions have also opened up new development options. The research elaborated these new ways and industrial examples. (c) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)