Digital Engineering is becoming more important due to its potentials in cost reduction as well as a unique instrument to control complex products and processes. Nowadays it is used in the industry to cope with more and more individual products accompanied by efficiency requirements on the production processes. The proceeding technical evolution makes it possible to participate in the domain of services from digital engineering. In this article we address challenges for linking process execution and planning. A logistic example illustrates the fusion of real and virtual world.
