Showcase 5: Production Equipment and Service Catalogues

Showcase 5 addresses MARKET4.0 marketplace for the procurement of manufacturing equipment and services. The procurement process requires access to different kinds of data such CAD files that are mostly considered confidential. MARKET4.0 combines both public and confidential data exchange. Public data exchange is covered by the MARKET4.0 marketplace UI, where the first insights on the items available on the platform are gained by potential customers. As soon as private data exchanges are required to further investigate if an item meets the customer’s needs, the platform facilitates such data exchanges through an IDS dataspace which enables sovereign peer to peer data exchanges. Showcase 5 contributes to DOME 4.0's objectives by delivering data sets related to manufacturing equipment procurement. The showcase connects both public data using a typical HTTP API and private data using the IDS infrastructure. In addition, MARKET4.0 platform also acts as client for DOME4.0 data sets by enabling MARKET4.0 users to access DOME4.0 datasets through the MARKET4.0 platform.