The "Factory-X" project has reached the halfway point - and there was an impressive mid-term event at @SAP in St. Leon-Rot.
It was not only a get-together for the huge project team, but above all a summary and presentation of the initial results to the @Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE) and the project management organization @VDI Technology Center GmbH.
A big thank you to the consortium management Thomas Hahn, Dirk Vielsaecker, Georg Kube and to the great project management Roland Rosen, Silke Huesmann and Jan Christoph Wehrstedt.
In two days, not only the technical progress in the project, but above all the implementation in real industrial environments discussed.
This is precisely what LNI 4.0 has contributed to with two tangible deliverables:
1) First deliverable - the XR platform
XR stands for Cross Reality and enables interested parties to have an interactive experience of the eleven use cases from Factory-X. Users will immerse themselves directly in the 3D world of these applications and experience their benefits first-hand through personal interaction and gamification.
Our virtual guide, Colette, provides concise and friendly explanations to support the user experience. By combining tactile, visual and acoustic stimuli, the knowledge acquired is retained more effectively and over a longer period of time.
2) Second deliverable - the IMX showcase
The IM-X Showcase (powered by LNI 4.0) demonstrates cross-country and cross-company data exchange based on industry standards and a federated trust model.
Interoperability is made possible by modern technologies for data rooms (EDC) and digital twins (AAS and OPC UA).
The use case of the IMX showcase is the Digital Product Passport (DPP), which is created during the production of a battery and is continuously updated along the supply chain with additional data from various companies.
What happens next?
Three important questions are driving the transfer for Factory-X:
a) MX port
The MX port of Factory-X serves as a modular interface architecture with only three standardized variants - for an environment with proprietary systems and manual integration.
LNI 4.0 will integrate and test the MX port in its testbed for edge and data ecosystems. The test results will be fed back to Factory-X and prototyped in the IMX showcase
Which implementation format can be used to present the MX port to the community?
b) Use cases with roles and business models
The eleven use cases in operational use with technical, business and organizational effects
Which other transfer formats reach a large user group?
c) The IMX showcase
The International Manufacturing-X Council's showcase is one of the first global prototype implementations of a purely industrial data room for production based solely on industrial standards (AAS, OPC UA, EDC). It addresses the supply chains in Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA using the example of a battery and its product passport (DPP). This exemplary implementation focuses on technical interoperability and tests existing industrial solutions.
What experience has been gained in the implementation of the IMX Showcase?
