Remote commissioning of plants in terms of automatic onboarding and initialization of a digital twin in the corresponding asset management system is made possible due to the AAS. The AAS and its sub models supports the exchange of master data and therefor the onboarding process itself, reduces complexity and minimizes errors.

The Onboarding of assets in the process industry is currently a process that consists of several steps and must be monitored by the operator’s staff.

Some of these steps can already be automated, such as onboarding via RFID tags or QR- codes, auto-sense mechanism, etc. The end-to-end process, including the exchange of master data between manufacturer and operator to enable the creation of the digital twin is still only possible in several manual steps. This is where the AAS unfolds its full potential. The asset onboarding process can be automated by standardizing master data and its exchange from manufacturer to operator with the Asset Administration Shell and its sub models.