A Practical Approach To A Holistic Digital Twin

Abstract

In February 2021 IPC, the global association for the electronics industry, published IPC- 2551, an interoperable framework for creation of holistic product digital twins incorporating critical design, production, and supply-chain data. Here we describe how the IPC-2551 standard works in combination with W3C standards Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs) to enable secure, interoperable, privacy-preserving information exchanges between participants in any manufacturing ecosystem.