“…The benefits of automated data acquisition, such as automated derivation of optimisation measures and capturing of motion data are presented in Uhlemann et al (2017). The concept of digital twin can be used e. g. in CNC programs designed for punching machines (Moreno et al, 2017) in order to make the process of cutting more efficient (Botkina et al, 2018), into cyber-physical cloud manufacturing (CPCM) systems (Hu et al, 2018;Kunath and Winkler, 2018), into manufacturing cyber-physical system (MCPS) (Leng et al, 2018), in the cloud assisted cyber-physical systems (CPPS) (Nagy et al, 2018;Wan and Xia, 2017;Zhang, Zhang and Yan, 2018) in the smart process planning of the construction of the diesel engine parts (Liu et al, 2018), or could be helpful to support job scheduling in cyber-physical production systems. Many other applications of digital twins are mentioned in Kritzinger et al (2018), Negri, Fumagalli and Macchi (2017), Padovano et al (2018).…”