The Collaborative Digital Twin (CDT) initiative, which was launched by the prostep ivip Association and

the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA), aims to explore a new way to collaborate

among development partners taking the digital twin concept into account. Central to this is Work Package

2 (WP2), which focuses on enabling seamless cross-enterprise engineering collaboration by addressing

challenges such as data fidelity, global workflows, and supply chain digitalization.

This white paper highlights the CDT’s vision to transition from asynchronous file exchanges to

synchronous, semantically aligned linked data. Key features include precise data exchange, automated

synchronization, robust