On May 7, 2024, the official opening ceremony of the 'AAS Dataspace for Everybody' took place - a platform that also facilitates access to data spaces, digital twins and asset administration shells (AAS) for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Over 60 representatives from science and industry came together at Fraunhofer IESE in Kaiserslautern to discuss the added value and potential applications of digital data rooms.
In a world in which digitalization and data management are becoming increasingly important, industrial data rooms are also coming more and more into focus for manufacturing companies. Cross-company data rooms can play a decisive role in helping companies to achieve economies of scale, open up new business areas and thus operate more efficiently overall. Fraunhofer IESE and the Industrial Digital Twin Association (IDTA), together with industry partners NetApp Deutschland, Plattform Industrie 4.0, Xitaso and congatec, have addressed this issue and developed a software-as-a-service solution in the form of the AAS Dataspace for Everybody.
AAS Dataspace for Everybody offers companies a user-friendly platform for sharing data as well as preconfigured software solutions based on the open source middleware Eclipse BaSyx. With this tool, companies can create digital twins of their production lines, calculate their carbon footprint and implement digital product passports. With the new platform, companies of all sizes have the opportunity to truly integrate data rooms seamlessly into production. This saves considerable time and costs in digitization.
Industry in exchange on data rooms
Among the highlights of the opening event were the various applications and usage scenarios of the AAS Dataspace for Everybody. Well-known industrial companies such as SAP, Wittenstein, Thyssenkrupp, Bosch and Mitsubishi were on hand to share their experiences of digital data spaces and Industry 4.0.
The new Dataspace is seen by the participating companies as an important milestone in the development of industrial ecosystems based on the Asset Administration Shell. The platform can now be used to test business processes along the supply chain in a real industrial ecosystem. This will also decisively advance the industrial implementation of interoperable digital twins.
Wittenstein, for example, wants to use the AAS Dataspace to publish already created administration shells, network and establish connectivity - from engineering to after sales. The company is also convinced that the data that is returned when product data or models are shared in this data space creates great added value.
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