SM4RTENANCE - Trusted Data Sharing for Manufacturing Equipment Industry

European Deployment of Smart Manufacturing Asset 4.0 Multilateral Data Sharing Spaces for an Autonomous Operation of Collaborative Maintenance and Circular Services

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An architecture overview on how the AAS is integrated with the EDC

The Challenge

SM4RTENANCE will facilitate a neutral cross-sectorial data space for the manufacturing industry, where data can be provided by the different stakeholders, services provider, manufacturer, OEM customer, interacting along the complete asset lifecycle to operate maintenance services. The key task is the federation of sector-specific data spaces utilizing different technology stacks.

Objectives of the project

Fraunhofer IOSB is tasked with the integration of reactive, data-sovereign digital twins based on the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) to enable interoperability in a neutral cross-sector data space. With the Fraunhofer Advanced Asset Administration Shell Tools for Digital Twins (FA³ST) an open-source solution is deployed to operate reactive digital twins. The integration into standardized data spaces like the International Data Spaces (IDS) is taken into account to promote secure data-sovereign sharing of product and production data.

Results so far

Fraunhofer IOSB proposes an approach to simplify the sharing of AAS data with the Eclipse Dataspace Connector (EDC) to support data integration in data spaces. The EDC is a open-source reference implementation of the IDS connector specification and is deployed for all data providers and data consumers. We are developing an AAS-specific data plane for the EDC to enable AAS interactions like Events, Operations and advanced data processing.

 

Project partners

The consortium consists of 42 full partners and 5 associated partners distributed across 11 EU countries. Among our partners are:

  • Innovalia
  • Core
  • FIWARE
  • Sovity
  • TNO
  • VDMA
  • IDSA
  • Siemens
  • VDI

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Project details

Funding: Supported by EU Horizon 2020

Grant Agreement: 825030

Project No: 101123490

Duration: 36 Months

Start Date: 1st October 2023

Strategic Objective: to facilitate a neutral cross-sectorial data space where data can be provided along the complete asset lifecycle from the different stakeholders interacting with the asset 4.0.

Total Budget: 14 M € EC; Contribution: 8M€