Optimizing the industrial value chain with Data Spaces –Establishing trust, traceability, and compliance of Data Exchanges
Digital continuity, the engine of industry transformation
Digital continuity represents an essential transformation for the efficiency of both industry and public administrations, marking the crucial shift from mere automation to true autonomy. This evolution is underpinned by advanced technologies, notably the application of AI on decentralized Data Spaces built on micro-data centers that are fully interoperable with the cloud.
This technological frontier is not just an operational necessity; it is a major economic opportunity. These foundational technologies alone represent a new market, estimated to be worth over €100 billion by 2030 in Europe, creating a significant growth opportunity for digital players to accelerate enterprise digital transformation.
This strategic effort is driven to promote the digitalization of industry around a sovereign vision of digital continuity. The aim is to combine the technologies of French industrial and digital leading organizations to build a sovereign, end-to-end solution for continuity, stretching from the IoT to the Cloud. This requires a focus on the edge-to-cloud continuum and distributed cloud architectures, including local cloud components for real-time processing and resilience. The ultimate objective is to provide solutions that are sovereign, secure, and easily deployable across the digital and manufacturing ecosystems.
The challenge of fragmentation in modern industry
Realizing this vision of digital continuity requires overcoming the current reality. The industrial value chain is a complex, spanning Suppliers, Logistics, Manufacturers, Services providers, Customers, and Public bodies. Data is constantly generated across these entities, often trapped in fragmented and siloed OT / IT data infrastructures and platforms.
In this traditional, highly connected yet fractured model, achieving true digital continuity is nearly impossible. The multitude of point-to-point connections creates a complex and disorderly flow for data exchanges. This complexity prevents the efficient leveraging of data for advanced applications like AI, Digital Twins, Industrial Applications, and Business/ESG Applications, resulting in no digital continuity with traditional connection means.
Industry Data Spaces
Data Spaces are emerging as the essential framework to solve this fragmentation, providing the governed structure necessary to achieve a sovereign and secure digital future. An Industry Data Space solution, powered by Dawex technology, enables digital continuity by governing data exchanges at scale between these disparate infrastructures.
A functioning Industry Data Space is built around a comprehensive architecture, ensuring governed, industrialized, standardized Data Exchanges:
1. The Orchestration Plane, bridging governance
This plane is the foundational layer for a functioning data ecosystem, managing the ground rules for all participants:
- Governance
- Participants management
- Compliance management
- Monitoring
2. The Control Plane, ensuring trust
The Control Plane establishes the crucial elements of trust and visibility over data products:
- ID & Credentials management
- Data product catalog, Publication & Search
- Visibility & Access rights
- Data transaction, Pricing
3. The Data Plane, bringing traceability
The Data Plane handles the physical data flow, providing the necessary traceability and security over data movement:
- File, API push, API pull
- Decentralized Data Connectors
- Traceability & Monitoring
By providing this governed environment that establishes trust, traceability, and compliance, Industry Data Spaces unlock essential, high-value use cases that drive optimization across the value chain, such as analyzing environmental impact, producing Carbon Footprint Indicators, optimizing non-destructive testing default detection and generating the Digital Product Passport.
For example, Data4Industry-X aims at supporting organizations to improve competitiveness and reduce the carbon footprint of global industrial organizations with operations spread across multiple countries. As a trusted, secure, and compliant Industry Data Space solution, Data4Industry-X is a key contributor to International Manufacturing-X, improving Europe’s competitiveness and ultimately fostering a compelling and sustainable industry ecosystem by leveraging the full potential of industrial data exchanges.
Ultimately, Industry Data Spaces are the strategic imperative for modern industry, moving the focus from disparate automation to system-wide autonomy. Establishing trust, traceability and compliance in data exchanges, Industry Data Spaces bring the secure environment required for digital continuity, enabling organizations to overcome organizational fragmentation and unlock the massive economic and operational potential inherent in their industrial data.
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