Digital Shadow – From production to product

In 2036, the automobile celebrates its 150th anniversary. For this occasion, numerous stakeholders from science and business work closely together in a public-private partnership called ARENA2036. ARENA is an acronym for Active Research Environment for the Next generation of Automobiles. Project participants include the University of Stuttgart, the Fraunhofer Society, DLR, Daimler, BASF, FESTO, Bosch, Hewlett-Packard, KUKA, Siemens, FARO and many more. ARENA2036 is a research and development partnership in the field of lightweight construction and innovative production technologies. ARENA’s main goal is to prepare the way for the automotive production of the future in order to maintain Germany’s world-leading location for automotive production. One lead project of ARENA2036 is called „Digitaler Schatten“ which is translated in this paper as „Digital Shadow“. [ARENA2036, 2017]