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The Catena-X Automotive Network e. V. and the OPC Foundation have announced a strategic collaboration to accelerate standardized, cross-company data sharing across the manufacturing industry. The partnership focuses on supporting the upcoming EU regulation requiring a Digital Product Passport (DPP) by 2027, which demands trusted, machine-readable product data across entire value chains.
About the Partners
Catena-X, the open, collaborative data space for the automotive industry, offering multi-tier collaboration via sovereign, standardized data sharing based on interoperable infrastructure and semantic templates, and
OPC Foundation, the organization for industrial interoperability and the creator of OPC UA, the standard for secure and semantically enriched information exchange.
By aligning OPC UA’s industrial modelling capabilities with the governance framework and cloud-based infrastructure of Catena-X, the two organizations aim to simplify data integration, reduce reporting errors, and enhance compliance with emerging regulatory demands like the DPP.
Key Collaboration Areas
Semantic Integration: Combine the OPC UA information modelling and Catena-X semantic templates to create a comprehensive repository of interoperable, machine-readable models. This technology backbone will also support automated DPP generation from production data.
Open-Source Reference Implementations: Jointly develop and provide open-source reference implementations for key dataspace and interoperability components, enabling straightforward integration of OPC UA-based systems into the Catena-X data ecosystem.
Reference Architecture Alignment: Align the OPC Foundation’s Cloud Initiative reference architecture with Catena-X’s dataspace architecture to enable streamlined deployment from the shop floor to the supply chain.
Industrial Ecosystem Enablement: Empower companies to leverage their existing OPC UA tools and infrastructure to meet emerging regulatory requirements, particularly the DPP, while reducing integration costs and accelerating time to compliance.
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