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RESEARCH ON ASSET ADMINISTRATION SHELL STANDARD SYSTEM
ARCHITECTURE

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Quanbo Lu ; Xinqi Shen ; Mei Li
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1 School of Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences Beijing, Beijing, China
2 China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Beijing, China
*Corresponding author: maggieli@cugb.edu.cn

ABSTRACT results in users’ different understanding of AAS from
different technical requirements. (2) The standard lack of
Asset Administration Shell (AAS) is an important enabling AAS-related models, data, connection, and services has led
technology to implement digital twins for Industry 4.0(I4.0). to problems, such as difficult integration, poor consistency,
It establishes cross-company interoperability. However, in low compatibility, and difficult interoperability between
the process of AAS application, there is a lack of AAS models. (3) The standard lack of AAS tools and platforms
standard references. Aiming at the problem of lacking AAS results in users’ confusion about the use of AAS.
standardization, this paper analyzes the requirement of AAS
standards from three perspectives: AAS concept, the The above problems have seriously hindered the further
implementation of AAS key technologies, and AAS development and application of AAS. There is an urgent
applications. As a basis for research to establish the three requirement for guidance and reference of relevant standards.
dimensions of the standardized architecture, AAS standard At present, there is no release of AAS standards at home and
architecture is formed from the integration of architecture abroad. Current AAS-connected international standard
under different perspectives. This provides guidance for the development initiatives and their working documents are as
study and formulation of standards related to AAS follows: Working group IEC/TC65/WG24 AAS for
standardization. industrial applications is formulating IEC 63278-1 ED1 AAS
for industrial applications-Part 1: AAS structure, IEC 63278-
Keywords –Asset administration shell, common 2 ED1 AAS for industrial applications-Part 2: information
technology, key technology, standards meta model, and IEC 63278-3 ED1 AAS for industrial
applications-Part 3: security provisions for AASs.
1. INTRODUCTION Subcommittee ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 41 Internet of Things and
digital twin is formulating ISO/IEC AWI 30172 Digital
AAS is an important technology to depict, simulate, optimize, Twin-Use cases and ISO/IEC AWI 30173 Digital Twin-
and visualize the physical world in the information world. It Concepts and terminology. The standardization council I4.0
provides an effective way to realize the global industrial and pursues the goal of initiating digital production standards in
social development trends such as digital transformation, Germany and coordinating them nationally and
intelligence, services, and green sustainability. At present, internationally. Industrial digital twin association is the one-
AAS technology is widely concerned and studied by industry stop shop for the digital twin, an alliance of active creators
and academia [1-3]. According to statistics, 134 researchers working together to make the digital twin practical for
from 22 countries, including the United States, South Korea, industry through open technologies. OMG-s the Digital
and Italy, and more than 103 institutions have carried out Twin Consortium drives the awareness, adoption,
AAS theory and application research. Relevant research interoperability, and development of digital twin technology.
results have been published. At the same time, ABB, Bosch,
Amazon, FESTO, and other world-famous companies Therefore, combined with the previous AAS research and
carried out the implementation and application of AAS in application exploration, this paper establishes AAS standard
related fields [4-6]. For example, in the manufacturing field, system architecture from six aspects: AAS basic common
Siemens in Germany have studied the application of AAS standards, key technology standards, tool/platform standards,
technology to the whole life cycle process of a product (e.g. evaluation standards, security standards, and industry
product design, production, manufacturing, operation, application standards. It provides reference for AAS
services, and recycling) [7]. standard researchers.

However, in the research and application of AAS, the
following problems have been found: (1) The standard lack
of AAS-related terms, system architecture, and application

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