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Open Industry 4.0 Alliance and Labs Network Indus­trie 4.0 work together for digital trans­for­ma­tion

The two industry asso­ci­a­tions are coop­er­ating closely, espe­cially on testing imple­men­ta­tions

 

Reinach, Schweiz, 22.11.2022 – The Open Industry 4.0 Alliance is now working together with the Labs Network Indus­trie (LNI) 4.0 e.V. — a fast growing network of more than 45 renowned test centers (labs) and around 300 compa­nies throughout Germany. The LNI 4.0 test the most diverse industry 4.0 topics in their prac­tical appli­ca­tion across more than 120 use cases and five large test­beds. As part of their part­ner­ship, the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance and the LNI 4.0 are lever­aging their collab­o­ra­tive syner­gies to test imple­men­ta­tions of Industry 4.0 use cases for medium-sized busi­nesses.

The collab­o­ra­tion between the two asso­ci­a­tions is expected to lead to signif­i­cant scaling in the imple­men­ta­tion of indus­trial trans­for­ma­tion across Germany and Europe. The LNI 4.0 brings its numerous test labs and its five large test beds to the table. The existing overlap in members — major players in the manu­fac­turing, elec­tronics and soft­ware indus­tries in Germany that partic­i­pate in both orga­ni­za­tions — is a great advan­tage for the scaling of trans­for­ma­tion projects.

“Stan­dards alone won‘t make imple­men­ta­tion happen,” explains Ricardo Dunkel, Tech­nical Director of the Open Industry 4.0 Alliance. “That’s why we expect coop­er­a­tion with the LNI 4.0 and the use of its test beds for our joint members to lead to the best possible imple­men­ta­tion results for our members’ end customers.”

“We expect that our joint work on use cases will increase the poten­ti­a­tion of digital trans­for­ma­tion imple­men­ta­tion for our members by a factor of five to ten,” says Anja Simon, CEO of LNI4.0. “We can test many different Industry 4.0 appli­ca­tion scenarios and do so in a neutral and pre-compet­i­tive way for both commu­ni­ties.”

The two orga­ni­za­tions intend to focus their collab­o­ra­tion on three key areas:

  • Edge Manage­ment: small and medium-sized enter­prises can test the range of different edge solu­tions via a neutral exchange and testing plat­form.
  • Digital Twin: providing the tech­nical basis and appli­ca­tion scenarios for the digital twin, based on the Asset Admin­is­tra­tion Shell (AAS).
  • Data Spaces: this includes collab­o­ra­tion to meet the stip­u­la­tions of the EU Data Act, which requires compre­hen­sive align­ment in terms of data sover­eignty (iden­tity and access manage­ment), as well as coor­di­na­tion with stan­dard­iza­tion orga­ni­za­tions, such as Catena‑X (auto­mo­tive) and Gaia‑X (EU level).

 

For more infor­ma­tion watch the video of the inter­view here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk2EmBKXyAI

 

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© Open Industry 4.0 Alliance

 

About the LNI 4.0:

Labs Network Indus­trie 4.0 e.V. (LNI 4.0) offers itself as a dialog, compe­tence and exper­i­men­ta­tion plat­form, espe­cially for small and medium-sized enter­prises. LNI 4.0 is a nonprofit and pre-compet­i­tive asso­ci­a­tion in which compa­nies can test tech­nolo­gies, inno­va­tions and use cases around Indus­trie 4.0 — in an envi­ron­ment without compet­i­tive pres­sure, on neutral ground and with minimal finan­cial and tech­nical risks. LNI 4.0 is a strongly grown network of more than 45 renowned test centers (labs) and about 300 compa­nies throughout Germany, which test Indus­trie 4.0 inno­va­tions in their prac­tical appli­ca­tion in more than 120 use cases and five large test­beds on a wide range of topics. The founding members of LNI 4.0 e.V. are: Deutsche Telekom, Festo, SAP, SIEMENS and the Bitkom, VDMA and ZVEI asso­ci­a­tions.

More infor­ma­tion: https://lni40.de/