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    <p>Hi All,</p>
    <div class="moz-forward-container">For reasons unknown this
      interesting reply from Xun Xu was blocked by the e-mail exploder
      so I apologize for the late delivery.</div>
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    <div class="moz-forward-container">Martin<br>
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            <td>RE: [step-manufacturing] Questions on the digital twin
              framework and AP238</td>
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            <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">Date: </th>
            <td>Fri, 12 Apr 2019 22:18:10 +0000</td>
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            <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">From: </th>
            <td>Xun Xu <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:xun.xu@auckland.ac.nz"><xun.xu@auckland.ac.nz></a></td>
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            <td>Martin Hardwick <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hardwick@steptools.com"><hardwick@steptools.com></a>,
              <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:step-manufacturing@steptools.com">step-manufacturing@steptools.com</a>
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:step-manufacturing@steptools.com"><step-manufacturing@steptools.com></a></td>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hi!
            Martin,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">See
            my two-cent as attached. Type 3 seems to be a better one in
            that CPPS (which needs to have some level of autonomy in a
            smart manufacturing environment)  can be clearly identified.
            <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Xun<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
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                  lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"
                lang="EN-US"> step-manufacturing
                <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:step-manufacturing-bounces@steptools.com"><step-manufacturing-bounces@steptools.com></a>
                <b>On Behalf Of </b>Martin Hardwick<br>
                <b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 13 April 2019 12:42 AM<br>
                <b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:step-manufacturing@steptools.com">step-manufacturing@steptools.com</a><br>
                <b>Subject:</b> [step-manufacturing] Questions on the
                digital twin framework and AP238<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p>All,<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p>The first attachment shows connectivity options being
          considered for the Digital Twin manufacturing framework (ISO
          23247).<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p>The second attachment shows an EXPRESS-G schema for the
          second edition of AP238 Edition 2.<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p>We have some questions:<o:p></o:p></p>
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            There are fours types of connectivity can you say which
            should be supported in the framework?<o:p></o:p></li>
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            What is the best name for the Digital Twin Core? Suggestions
            include the Digital Twin Agent and the Digital Twin Manager.<o:p></o:p></li>
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            Are you able to navigate around the AP238 Edition 2 schema?
            You should be able to load the SVG file into any browser
            except Internet Explorer.
            <o:p></o:p></li>
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            For IMTS 2018, we used AP238 to define the twins (see
            below). What other schemata are appropriate for the Digital
            Twin Core/Agent/Manager?<o:p></o:p></li>
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        <p>Thanks in advance for any response you can give us. Please
          send us a response if you can. You do not have to answer all
          the questions.<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p>Martin<o:p></o:p></p>
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