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Plattform Industrie 4.0 and CESMII, The Smart Manufacturing Institute, are working together to drive the digital transformation of manufacturing. Key aims are to promote 
interoperability and a shared set of skills and competencies. At the Hannover Messe 2021 they presented the first results of their cooperation.
Plattform Industrie 4.0 and CESMII are announcing their partnership to address similar challenges and needs related to Industrie 4.0 / Smart Manufacturing. For both manufacturing economies to compete, they need international collaboration to achieve major tasks, like semantic interoperability, create data sharing platforms, develop workforce skills, and foster sustainable production.
Platform Industrie 4.0 promotes the development of Industrie 4.0 in Germany by developing pre-competitive concepts, recommendations and use cases for practical application. CESMII promotes Smart Manufacturing in the US by supporting precompetitive research and development, providing tools and test bed for new technology as public-private partnerships, and creating content for educating a next generation of smart manufacturers.
Technology standardization is critical to ensure that pre-competitive technology in smart manufacturing is interoperable across different IT/OT systems. Developing workforce competencies and skills is essential to continue the path of innovation and to drive adoption. These are highly complementary efforts that will help the US and Germany to ensure these systems work well based on common standards that are mutually beneficial.
One major achievement was to understand the technology and terminology used by the two initiatives’ technical solutions to ensure interoperability of assets across countries and domains. The Smart Manufacturing Profiles (SM Profiles by CESMII) and the Asset Administration Shell (AAS by Plattform Industrie 4.0) enable the exchange of information between partners in value-added networks. The information exchange will be realized on a standardized basis along an asset’s entire life cycle.
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