Manufacturing-X: A dataspace for industry

The production and manufacturing industry needs better resilience of production net-works and supply chains to reduce dependencies. It needs to become more sustainable and achieve its contribution to climate change goals. And it wants to secure and ex-pand its competitiveness in the long term. Companies must join forces to work quickly and agilely in flexible and customized production processes. For this they need the readiness and a technical possibility to exchange data, because the availability and usability of data is a basic requirement for successfully dealing with these challenges. Manufacturing-X offers industry a data space in which this data exchange can be im-plemented. The initiative was launched by a broad alliance of industry, politics, associa-tions and science. It can draw on extensive previous experience and developments from initiatives such as Catena-X, Verwaltungsschale, OPCOA, Gaia-X and Internatio-nal Data Spaces. The participating associations VDMA, ZVEI and Bitkom are particularly important as multipliers for the companies. Their common goal is to raise industrial manufacturing to the next level. The official website of Manufacturing-X: https://www.plattform-i40.de/IP/Navig...