Catena-X and OPC Foundation Enable Industrial Data Exchange for the Digital Product Passport

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SCOTTSDALE, Arizona/ BERLIN, Germany, Aug. 19, 2025– The Catena-X Automotive Network e. V. and the OPC Structure have actually revealed a calculated cooperation to speed up standard, cross-company information sharing throughout the production market. The collaboration concentrates on sustaining the upcoming EU guideline needing a Digital Item Key (DPP) by 2027, which requires relied on, machine-readable item information throughout whole worth chains.

This teamwork combines 2 effective communities:

• Catena-X, the initial open and joint information room for the automobile market, allowing sovereign, standard data-sharing, based upon interoperable framework and semantic themes, and
• OPC Structure, the biggest company for commercial interoperability and the designer of OPC UA, the worldwide identified requirement for protected and semantically enriched info exchange.

By lining up OPC UA’s tried and tested commercial modelling capacities with the administration structure and cloud-based framework of Catena-X, both companies intend to streamline information combination, minimize reporting mistakes and improve conformity with arising regulative needs like the DPP.

The celebrations consent to coordinate in the complying with 4 core locations:

• Semantic combination: Integrate the OPC UA info modelling and Catena-X semantic themes to develop one of the most thorough database of interoperable, machine-readable designs. This modern technology foundation will certainly additionally sustain computerized DPP generation from manufacturing information.
• Open-source recommendation executions: Collectively create and supply open-source recommendation executions for vital dataspace and interoperability elements, allowing simple combination of OPC UA-based systems right into the Catena-X information community.
• Recommendation design placement: Straighten the OPC Structure’s Cloud Effort recommendation design with Catena-X’s dataspace design to make it possible for structured implementation from the shopfloor to the supply chain.
• Commercial community enablement: Empower business to utilize their existing OPC UA devices and framework to satisfy arising regulative needs, especially the DPP, while lowering combination expenses and speeding up time-to-compliance.

“The OPC Structure supplies abundant, protected, and tried and tested accessibility to standard info – an important structure for electronic improvement. By connecting this information to the Catena-X community, we transform standard info right into cross-company worth. This cooperation advantages both communities and notes a vital action towards end-to-end information chains, at range and cross-industry remedies, like the Digital Item Key,” stated Oliver Ganser, chairman of the Board at Catena-X.

Stefan Hoppe, head of state and exec supervisor of OPC Structure, proceeded, “This cooperation combines 2 solid communities: OPC UA, as an around the world approved requirement for commercial interoperability, and Catena-X, as an introducing data-space effort for the automobile market. The mix of tried and tested standardization and sovereign information exchange supplies business with a useful bridge from the shopfloor to the cloud. Catena-X adds considerable included worth– especially in conference regulative needs such as the Digital Item Key and allowing cross-company use information designs, which is additionally a vital column of the OPC Structure’s Cloud Effort. With each other, we are developing a durable structure for lasting and reliable digitalization.”

Regarding Catena-X

Catena-X is the initial end-to-end, joint and open information community for the automobile market, attaching all gamers along the worth chain. The Catena-X organization works as a neutral administration to make it possible for standard, interoperable and data-sovereign cooperation, along with to drive advancement, boost effectiveness and conformity throughout the whole information community. Catena-X is certified with global information room requirements and acts as a design for all Manufacturing-X campaigns by forming the growth of standard information communities in various other markets. Established in 2021, the organization has centers in the U.S.A., China, Spain, Sweden and France, with greater than 300 people from different gamers in the automobile market, operating in greater than 40 specialist teams to create future requirements.

Regarding the OPC Structure

Because 1996, the OPC Structure has actually assisted in the growth and fostering of the OPC info exchange requirements. As both supporter and custodian of these specs, the Structure’s objective is to aid market suppliers, end-users and software program programmers preserve interoperability in their production and automation properties. The OPC Structure is devoted to giving the very best specs, modern technology, procedures and accreditation to attain multivendor, multiplatform, protected and trustworthy interoperability for relocating information and info from the ingrained globe to the venture cloud. The Structure offers over 1010 participants worldwide in Industrial Automation, IT, IoT, IIoT, M2M, Industrie 4.0, Structure Automation, maker devices, pharmaceutical, petrochemical and Smart Power markets.

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