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Architecting Digital Twin-Driven Transformation in the Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Sector

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Digital twins are a key pillar of the ongoing industrial revolution requiring a strategy tailored for each sector of the economy. However, contributions addressing the sectoral level of analysis are still nascent in the digital twin literature. This paper has a dual research objective of (1) identifying the digital twin potential at a sectoral level of analysis and (2) investigating whether the existent Enterprise Architectures (EA) approaches and languages meet the requirements for the creation of digital twin architectures. A design science research project was conducted in a leading business association representing the Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Sector (RACS). Our findings reveal that RACS digital twins will need to address the grand challenges of climate change and sustainability. Moreover, the digital twin-driven transformation of RACS will be more effective in cooperation between different supply chain segments, increasing the importance of business associations’ role in the definition of reference architectures for their sector. Our results also extend recent research suggesting the use of ArchiMate language for digital twin developments. This contribution is relevant to sectoral digital transformations supported by digital twin technology, providing the foundations for future sectoral enterprise architecture frameworks.

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Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful for the collaboration of APIRAC in this study. This work was partially supported by national funds through the FCT—Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., within the scope of the project CISUC-UID/CEC/00326/2020 and by European Social Fund, through the Regional Operational Program Centro 2020.

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  1. University of Coimbra, CISUC, DEI, Pólo II, Pinhal de Marrocos, 3030-290, Coimbra, Portugal

    Carolina Bandeira & João Barata

  2. Portuguese Association of the Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, Avenida Gomes Pereira, 71 A, 1500-328, Lisboa, Portugal

    Nuno Roque

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  2. State Key Laboratory of Precision Electronic Manufacturing Technology and Equipment, School of Mechanical Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

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  3. Department of Regional Industrial Policy and Economic Security, Institute of Economics, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russia

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Bandeira, C., Barata, J., Roque, N. (2022). Architecting Digital Twin-Driven Transformation in the Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Sector. In: Kumar, V., Leng, J., Akberdina, V., Kuzmin, E. (eds) Digital Transformation in Industry . Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 54. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94617-3_2

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