Paving Pathways for Digitalization in Engineering: Common Concepts in Engineering Chains

Production system engineering involves various engineering disciplines and tools within an engineering organization. Digitalization in such an engineering organization strongly depends on the quality of the data logistics that integrates the domain-specific languages applied in and between the engineering disciplines. In this paper, we introduce a meta model and method for identifying common concepts, the common elements of the involved disciplines, for establishing the foundation for data logistics. The Common Concepts Identification method elicits common concepts on pathways through the engineering process and, thereby, facilitates designing an optimized data logistics for the digitalization in engineering.