Manufacturing metaverse.

In particular, the concept of a digital twin and a manufacturing metaverse share some commonality as both are models (most likely derived from data), however, each serves its own purpose (see Table 1). The term metaverse is attributed to the science fiction book (Stephenson, [3]) published in 1992, just a year after the Internet was established. 2The developments in simulation leading of a manufacturing metaverse The metaverse journey in manufacturing can be traced back to analog simulation, followed by the numerical 1D (D = dimension), and then 2D and 3D digital simulation. [Extracted from the article]