US 2026/0260044 A1 · Digital Twin and Physical Twin Management within Interconnected Digital Model Platform

Abstract

Digital model platform that enables the streamlined creation and management of digital twins and physical twins by leveraging external feedback and artificial intelligence (AI) is disclosed. Methods and systems for a model collaboration platform that facilitate the integration of external feedback, whether from physical, virtual, or human sources, into the streamlined design, validation, verification, certification, assembly, operations, and maintenance processes of complex systems. Updated results are output to those external sources, including physical twins, other digital twins or models and simulations, and/or human users. External feedback includes feedback data from physical prototypes and their environment, virtual prototypes, simulations, and subject-matter experts. Embodiments are directed to integrating external feedback into the assembly and system-level assessment of digital twins, physical twins, digital threads, and the iterative design of constituting digital engineering models, including constructing, maintaining, and improving digital engineering models for the design, validation, verification, certification, operations, and maintenance of complex systems.

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Dependent claims

A non-transitory physical storage medium storing program code, the program code executable by a hardware processor to cause the hardware processor to execute a computer-implemented process for managing a digital twin of a physical product and/or a physical process within an interconnected digital model platform (IDMP), the program code comprising code to:

receive a model representation connected to a digital model file associated with the digital twin, wherein the model representation provides access to a digital artifact of the digital model file through the IDMP, wherein the digital model file resides within a customer environment, wherein the IDMP is configured to interconnect the digital model file with a different digital model file through a software-code-defined digital thread, and wherein the digital model file and the different digital model file are from two distinct software tools and/or from two distinct security networks;
receive the software-code-defined digital thread, wherein the software-code-defined digital thread is written in a computer-executable scripting language, and the software-code-defined digital thread accesses the digital artifact through the model representation, wherein the software-code-defined digital thread is configured to execute a scripted workflow associated with the digital twin, and wherein the scripted workflow executes a plurality of pipelined tasks;
and
instantiate the digital twin in a virtual environment by executing the software-code-defined digital thread.

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A non-transitory physical storage medium storing program code, the program code executable by a hardware processor to cause the hardware processor to execute a computer-implemented process for managing one or more digital twins of a physical product and/or a physical process within an interconnected digital model platform (IDMP), the program code comprising code to:

receive a remote twin configuration specifying a first configuration of a remote digital twin,
wherein the remote twin configuration is based on a model representation used by a software-code-defined digital thread,
wherein the software-code-defined digital thread is configured to execute a scripted workflow associated with the remote digital twin,
wherein the remote digital twin is instantiated by executing the software-code-defined digital thread,
wherein the remote twin configuration comprises a platform authoritative twin indicator,
wherein the IDMP is deployed in a hybrid remote and edge architecture comprising a remote platform instance and an edge instance, and
wherein the remote platform instance manages the remote digital twin over a remote IT infrastructure;
receive an edge twin configuration specifying a second configuration of an edge digital twin or physical twin,
wherein the edge instance manages the edge digital twin or physical twin on a physical system,
wherein the edge digital twin or physical twin and the remote digital twin are of the physical product and/or the physical process, and
wherein the edge twin configuration comprises an edge authoritative twin indicator;
receive a performance data set comprising sensor data from the edge digital twin or physical twin;
and
update one of the model representation and the software-code-defined digital thread based on the performance data set.

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A computer-implemented method for managing one or more digital twins of a physical product and/or a physical process within an interconnected digital model platform (IDMP), comprising:

receiving a remote twin configuration specifying a first configuration of a remote digital twin,
wherein the remote twin configuration is based on a model representation used by a software-code-defined digital thread,
wherein the software-code-defined digital thread is configured to execute a scripted workflow associated with the remote digital twin,
wherein the remote digital twin is instantiated by executing the software-code-defined digital thread,
wherein the remote twin configuration comprises a platform authoritative twin indicator,
wherein the IDMP is deployed in a hybrid remote and edge architecture comprising a remote platform instance and an edge instance, and
wherein the remote platform instance manages the remote digital twin over a remote IT infrastructure;
receiving an edge twin configuration specifying a second configuration of an edge digital twin or physical twin,
wherein the edge instance manages the edge digital twin or physical twin on a physical system,
wherein the edge digital twin or physical twin and the remote digital twin are of the physical product and/or the physical process, and
wherein the edge twin configuration comprises an edge authoritative twin indicator;
receiving a performance data set comprising sensor data from the edge digital twin or physical twin;
and
updating one of the model representation and the software-code-defined digital thread based on the performance data set.

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A non-transitory physical storage medium storing program code, the program code executable by a hardware processor to cause the hardware processor to execute a computer-implemented process for managing one or more digital twins of a physical product and/or a physical process within an interconnected digital model platform (IDMP), the program code comprising code to:

receive an edge twin configuration specifying a configuration of an edge digital twin or physical twin,
wherein the IDMP is deployed in a hybrid remote and edge architecture comprising a remote platform instance and an edge instance,
wherein the remote platform instance manages a remote digital twin over a remote IT infrastructure;
wherein the remote digital twin is specified by a remote twin configuration,
wherein the edge instance manages the edge digital twin or physical twin on a physical system,
wherein the edge digital twin or physical twin and the remote digital twin are of the physical product and/or the physical process,
wherein the edge twin configuration is based on a model representation used by a software-code-defined digital thread, and
wherein the edge twin configuration comprises an edge authoritative twin indicator;
receive a performance data set comprising sensor data from the edge digital twin or physical twin;
modify one of the model representation and the software-code-defined digital thread based on the performance data set.

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