Process X – A Data Space for the Process Industry

Abstract

The need for improved resilience, increased efficiency in production chains, and the need to raise resource efficiency require more cross-company information exchange. Data spaces are digital ecosystems, in which companies host their own information within their systems and thus retain sovereignty over the data and its access. The Manufacturing-X initiative is an industrial policy initiative to develop such a data space; in that context, Process-X deals with the process industry. Within the Process-X initiative, a showcase was developed. An exchange of regular steam forecasts enables the energy supplier to adjust the level of confidence to the forecast consumption and thus save primary energy in generation.