Digital Twin and AAS in the Industry 4.0 Framework

The paper goes out from the state of the art in the area of Industry 4.0 initiative of the most developed countries. There are also discussed reasons of Industry 4.0 development and implementation into existing still developed technologies. According to the last development, the term digital twin became a very often-used word. Authors explain differences in the content of the digital twin and recommend to use for the Industry 4.0 area the more appropriate and precise specified term – the Asset Administration Shell (AAS). Next parts of the contribution therefore deal with the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) in details to enable engineers, technicians and informatics from the praxis much more simple introduction in the Industry 4.0 problems and their solution. There is introduced and explained the structure of the AAS, the model and sub-models architecture, parameters and features in the contribution.