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Hansman, R. John Spear, Steven Miller, Jeffrey Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Sloan School of Management 2022-11-30T19:38:50Z 2022-11-30T19:38:50Z 2022-05 2022-08-25T19:15:38.925Z https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/146647 In order to fully realize the benefits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, companies must migrate legacy software and processes to state-of-the-art systems that fully incorporate technologies enabled by the Internet of Things, namely Digital Twin and Digital Thread. Digital Twin technologies hold the promise of significant advantages in design and manufacturing, particularly for complex products with a long lifecycle. In an early effort to adopt these technologies, large organizations are investing resources in defining and iterating upon their nascent Digital Twin capabilities. However, particularly in a large organization, use cases for Digital Twin technologies can differ according to product class. This thesis presents as a case study one such migration process in a large aerospace manufacturing organization. The research defined and applied an Agile framework to a team’s current processes to assist them in better understanding the Digital Twin use cases present across the full enterprise, and to align their efforts accordingly. In applying the Agile framework to improve team alignment and gather additional feedback, a measurable change in Digital Twin representation specifically within the context of configuration definition and change management was effected, making Digital Twin configuration representations and change management tools more broadly applicable across product classes. M.B.A. S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted Copyright retained by author(s) https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/ Application of an Agile Framework in Assessing and Aligning Digital Twin Use Cases Across Product Classes in a Large Organization Thesis application/pdf Master Master of Business Administration Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics Publication unknown unknown <Publication xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/1.1/" id="3d608328-9670-42bf-b1e2-fecf778e24f1"> <Type xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/vocab/COAR_Publication_Types">http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_1843</Type> <Title>Application of an Agile Framework in Assessing and Aligning Digital Twin Use Cases Across Product Classes in a Large Organization</Title> <PublishedIn> <Publication> </Publication> </PublishedIn> <PublicationDate>2022-05</PublicationDate> <Authors> <Author> <DisplayName>Miller, Jeffrey</DisplayName> <Affiliation> <OrgUnit> </OrgUnit> </Affiliation> </Author> </Authors> <Editors> </Editors> <Publishers> <Publisher> <DisplayName>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</DisplayName> <OrgUnit /> </Publisher> </Publishers> <License>https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/</License> <Abstract>In order to fully realize the benefits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, companies must migrate legacy software and processes to state-of-the-art systems that fully incorporate technologies enabled by the Internet of Things, namely Digital Twin and Digital Thread. Digital Twin technologies hold the promise of significant advantages in design and manufacturing, particularly for complex products with a long lifecycle. In an early effort to adopt these technologies, large organizations are investing resources in defining and iterating upon their nascent Digital Twin capabilities. However, particularly in a large organization, use cases for Digital Twin technologies can differ according to product class. This thesis presents as a case study one such migration process in a large aerospace manufacturing organization. The research defined and applied an Agile framework to a team’s current processes to assist them in better understanding the Digital Twin use cases present across the full enterprise, and to align their efforts accordingly. In applying the Agile framework to improve team alignment and gather additional feedback, a measurable change in Digital Twin representation specifically within the context of configuration definition and change management was effected, making Digital Twin configuration representations and change management tools more broadly applicable across product classes.</Abstract> <Access xmlns="http://purl.org/coar/access_right" > </Access> </Publication>