Professor Clement Fortin, who heads the System Thinking Group at the Skoltech Center for Digital Engineering, presented the paper “Evolutive Digital Twin Modeling: From Requirements to Detailed Design” at the PLM 2025 IFIP 22nd International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, held this year in Seville, Spain.

The study was co-authored by Dmitrii Ershenko (first author), Yana Brovar, and Andreas Panayi.

Clement Fortin, Professor of the System Thinking Group (Skoltech Centre for Digital Engineering), Dean of Education at Skoltech:

"Digital twins are currently widely used across various industries, but primarily for monitoring and predicting failures in operational systems rather than throughout their entire lifecycle. To unlock their full potential, digital twins should be developed in parallel with the physical system from the very beginning. This enables early testing and validation of design decisions, making the development process more adaptable. Moreover, designing a system with its digital twin in mind enhances the connection between the physical and virtual worlds, bridges design and operation, and ensures a holistic lifecycle perspective. This paper demonstrates the approach using the Prescriptive Analytics Demonstrator — a project where the digital twin influences both the product architecture and development process from the outset."

Since 2003, PLM International Conference (PLM IC) has brought together researchers, developers, and users of Product Lifecycle Management.

It aims to integrate business approaches to the collaborative creation, management and dissemination of product and process data throughout the extended enterprises that create, manufacture and operate engineered products and systems. The conference aims at involving all stakeholders of the wide concept of PLM, hoping to shape the future of this field and advance the science and practice of enterprise development.