Connecting enterprise IT to the data space with ease

At the booth of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Fraunhofer IESE will demonstrate how companies can quickly, securely, and cost effectively connect their existing ERP systems to a data space. The foundation for this is the AAS Dataspace for Everybody, which enables companies to implement data space ready applications quickly and easily, without deep IT expertise. Practical use cases illustrate how core business processes such as inventory management, the exchange of Product Carbon Footprint data, or the management of company master data can be automated and set up to be interoperable and completely free of media disruptions. Despite the underlying complexity of the system, the interface of individual applications can be designed to be as intuitive to use as a smartphone.

The examples clearly show that AAS based data spaces allow companies to reduce costs, minimize manual effort, and at the same time establish the foundation needed to confidently meet upcoming regulatory requirements. In addition, asset administration shells and data spaces provide semantically enriched data. This type of data can later on be used to enable more complex AI systems to run autonomous factories.

Hall 11, Booth D33
 

Providing material data digitally – a foundation for the product passport

Another focus is the digital provision of material data – a field in which information is still frequently collected and exchanged manually. In the PMD-X-MAPRO project, research and industry are jointly developing approaches to make material and production data available in a structured, machine readable format across the entire supply chain.

At Hannover Messe, current results will be presented that illustrate how companies can automatically check, structure, and efficiently reuse material information. Together with its project partners, Fraunhofer IESE will demonstrate at the booth of Plattform Industrie 4.0 how material properties can be semantically enriched in the data space and integrated into a knowledge graph. This reduces manual work and creates a central foundation for applications such as the digital product passport.

Hall 13, Booth C24
 

Experience data spaces in production – live and hands on

At the third booth, visitors will experience the interplay between data spaces and production in a virtual control center: SmartFactory-KL provides live production data, which is transferred directly into the AAS Dataspace for Everybody of Fraunhofer IESE via digital twins and further processed there. This makes visible how a continuous, cross site data flow enables new applications.

Together with partner Xitaso GmbH, Fraunhofer IESE will also present Industrial BaSyx – an industrial grade service around BaSyx technologies. This provides companies with a practical foundation for reliably integrating open Industry 4.0 standards into their production and IT landscapes.

Hall 13, Booth C35
 

Digital sovereignty through open standards

A central theme of all presentations is strengthening digital sovereignty in industry. Frank Schnicke, Department Head “Digital Twin Engineering” at Fraunhofer IESE, explains: “Open standards and open source software, combined with the possibility to run operations entirely under your own control, greatly strengthen the digital sovereignty of European companies.” He adds: “Companies wishing to increase their resilience should assess where they already meet these criteria, where non-conformity is uncritical, and where they wish to make targeted improvements.” The result is a future proof digital infrastructure that ensures investment security, facilitates innovation, and provides a foundation for trustworthy, data driven collaboration in industrial ecosystems.