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Rozana Cvitkovic

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arXiv2026

A Set-Theoretic Evaluation Framework for Assessing Asset Administration Shell Instances: Towards Comparability and Suitability

Asset Administration Shells (AAS) provide a standardized means of representing assets and their information in manufacturing and increasingly serve as a basis for software services. However, different AAS instances vary in structure, content, and degree of completion, making it difficult to determine whether a given AAS is suitable for a specific application. This paper presents two complementary methods to support the comparison and application-oriented assessment of AAS. First, set-theoretic operations are employed to compare AAS models, enabling the identification of common, missing, and differing submodels and parameters. Second, an AAS suitability model assesses the conformity of an AAS to the requirements of a specific use case. The assessment considers structural conformity, semantic consistency, cardinality, and specification conformity and can be performed either against a reference AAS or a set of required SemanticIDs. A suitability value is derived from the identified deviations and is complemented by a detailed report of missing or non-conforming information. The proposed approach support practitioners and researchers in the comparison of evolving AAS and provide application-specific information on their suitability for manufacturing software services.

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arXiv2026

Towards an Asset Administration Shell Maturity Model

The Asset Administration Shell (AAS) is increasingly recognized as a fundamental model for the realization of and data exchange between digital twins in manufacturing. An AAS defines a hierarchical data structure to represent any type of asset throughout its entire lifecycle. In the context of AAS-based systems, comparing different AAS instances constitutes a practical challenge, as neither a widely accepted methodological framework nor a maturity model are available to systematically support such analyses. To address this gap, we propose a novel concept of AAS maturity that characterizes the extent to which established digital twin criteria are met and thus enabling comparability of AAS instances. The concepts are derived from the literature and applied through exemplification. These emerging results enable practitioners and researchers to systematically compare AAS instances and support the identification and assessment of further development steps in the digital twin engineering process.

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arXiv2026

Software-heavy Asset Administration Shells: Classification and Use Cases

The Asset Administration Shell (AAS) is an emerging technology for the implementation of digital twins in the field of manufacturing. Software is becoming increasingly important, not only in general but specifically in relation to manufacturing, especially with regard to digital manufacturing and a shift towards the usage of artificial intelligence. This increases the need not only to model software, but also to integrate services directly into the AAS. The existing literature contains individual solutions to implement such software-heavy AAS. However, there is no systematic analysis of software architectures that integrate software services directly into the AAS. This paper aims to fill this research gap and differentiate architectures based on software quality criteria as well as typical manufacturing use cases. This work may be considered as an interpretation guideline for software-heavy AAS, both in academia and for practitioners.

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