AAS4WH
Asset Administration Shell for the Wire Harness
Development of an interoperable digital twin for the value chain of the wire harness.
Contact person
Christian Kosel
Research Coordinator ARENA2036 e.V.
7th AAS User Meeting on October 20, 2026
This marks the seventh time the AAS User Conference has been held —organized by ARENA2036, the IDTA, the VDI Technology Center, and SmartFactory-KL—and this time it will take place here at our research campus in Stuttgart.
The Asset Administration Shell (AAS) ( Asset Administration Shell ) is increasingly evolving from a conceptual approach into a central enabler for the industrial use of artificial intelligence —it provides the structured, semantically described data that makes AI applications truly effective in practice. In addition, issues such as interoperability, security, and open semantic structures remain critical success factors for the Asset Administration Shell.
The meeting on October 20 will focus on the practical industrial applications of AAS. In the morning, you can expect high-caliber keynote speeches and insights from the field—including topics such as AAS & AI, data rooms and Tractus-X, the AAS Strategy House, collaborative engineering, PLM/PIM integration, the digital product passport, and the latest developments surrounding BaSyx, the open-source AAS system.
In the afternoon, you’ll choose the topics most relevant to you from among five concurrent workshops and explore them in depth through hands-on sessions—ranging from ABAC & AASQL with BaSyx to AAS as an enabler for AI, and the Digital Twin Registry in Tractus-X. During the networking break, the AAS Expo also offers an opportunity to engage directly with developers, users, and the community.
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The number of participants is limited to 90. Seats will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis based on the time of registration via the website. Unfortunately, we cannot accept prior confirmations, such as those sent via Outlook.
Agenda and presentations
| Time | Topic | Who | room |
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| 9:00 | Registration and networking | ||
| 09:30 | Welcome, compliance notice, presentation of the agenda and schedule Opening remarks by the project sponsor |
Georg Schnauffer
(ARENA2036)
Michael Hoffmeister
(IDTA)
Stephan Hamm
(SFKL)
Christian Lindemann
(VDI-TZ)
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| 9:50 – 10:20 | Topic 1: The Broader Context of AAS, data space AI |
Ingo Sawilla
(TRUMPF)
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| 10:20 – 10:40 |
Idea 2: The AAS Strategy Framework as a Roadmap for Potential and Areas for Development
Let’s work together to make AAS practical! The Strategy House structures the entire field of AAS—from business models to use cases to technological enablers. The AAS House provides structure and orientation within the AAS ecosystem and serves as a foundation for deriving your own strategies and areas of action (what’s already out there, what’s coming next, where do I start). |
Georg Schnauffer
(ARENA2036)
Michael Hoffmeister
(IDTA)
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| 10:40 – 11:00 |
Insight 3: Collaborative Engineering – How AAS Is Redefining Collaboration in Development
The approaches developed by the MX Topic Group “Collaborative Engineering” are being further developed in a series of projects as part of the OPEN Community Project. The overarching goal is to establish a digital ecosystem for a cross-vendor solution-finding process. In one of these projects (OPEN ASP), these approaches are being implemented and further refined within the “sharemundo links®” ecosystem, for example:
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Björn Sautter
(FESTO) for the MX Topic Group
Johannes Hoos
(FESTO) for the OPEN Community
Patrick Vosberg
(sharemundo) for OPEN ASP and sharemundo links®
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| 11:00 | Networking Break with AAS Expo | ||
| 11:50 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. |
Initiative 4: BaSyx
The BaSyx AAS ecosystem is undergoing continuous development and, in addition to the IDTA specifications, implements further features and components for the efficient and scalable handling of AAS. This presentation will explain what lies behind the system and provide an overview of the most important new features, with a particular focus on the Digital Product Passport (DPP). |
Frank Schnicke
(IESE)
Christian Barth
(FESTO)
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| 12:10 – 12:30 |
Session 5: AAS from the Perspective of a PLM Provider
Presentation of an integration concept using the example of a specific customer with three levels: AAS as an extension of master data, automatic derivation of AAS from master data, and AAS as an interface between enterprise systems. |
Jan Luca Siewert
(Contact Software)
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| 12:30 – 12:50 |
Session 6: AAS Integration into PIM/PLM
Class-Ing and PILZ present a real-world use case using existing PIM data to automatically generate and populate an AAS-compliant electronic product catalog, including semantic submodels in accordance with IEC 63278. |
Frank Scherenschlich
(Class.Ing)
Fahri Demirci
(PILZ)
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| 12:50 | Presentation and overview of the workshops | ||
| 13:00 | Lunch break, including a group photo | ||
| 2:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Parallel workshops on selected topics from the morning session, each with 2 hours of working time | ||
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Workshop 1: ABAC & AASQL with BaSyx
Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC) and the AAS Query Language (AASQL) will become substantially more important in the future, particularly for secure AI use cases; however, these topics are not easy to grasp. This workshop will therefore provide a hands-on demonstration of how both AASQL and ABAC can be easily used. |
Martin Stemmer
(IESE), Head of the IDTA Security Working Group
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Workshop 2: “AAS as an Enabler for AI and Vice Versa”
The Asset Administration Shell (AAS), as a standardized foundation for describing and exchanging information about industrial assets, opens up new possibilities for the standardized description and integration of AI models and AI agents. The workshop will explore how AAS supports the interoperable deployment of AI applications and the role it can play in the integration, orchestration, and exchange of intelligent services in networked production environments. It will also discuss how AI can help simplify and expand the creation, maintenance, and use of AAS content. The focus is on concepts, current developments, and application examples that illustrate the interaction between AAS and AI, as well as their potential for future industrial ecosystems. |
Matthias Marquart
(ISW)
Sharon-Naemi Stiliadou
(ISW)
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Workshop 3: “Digital Twin Registry in Tractus-X”
This workshop provides an overview of the current status of the integration of the BaSyx Digital Twin Registry (DTR) into the Tractus-X development environment. The DTR is used for the automated discovery of AAS in the data room context. The workshop will present the existing architecture and functions and discuss outstanding challenges and next steps. The goal is to establish a common understanding and to promote professional exchange regarding further integration. |
Johannes Diemer
(ARENA2036)
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Workshop 4: DPP and AAS
Users' initial experiences with Battery-DPP. A general, cross-industry submodel template for the DPP? |
Adrian von Mühlenen
(BASF)
Sebastian Käbisch
(Siemens)
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Workshop 5: AAS Strategy House—Next Level
The purpose of this workshop is to discuss the current status of the presentation and to work together on its further development. The AAS Strategy House will then be published with the necessary adjustments. All interested parties are invited to participate in the finalization process. |
Michael Hoffmeister
(IDTA)
Georg Schnauffer
(ARENA2036)
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| 16:10 |
Summary of the results:
Each workshop will present its results, followed by a Q&A session. |
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| 16:40 |
Closing Remarks
Date of the Next AAS Meeting |
Michael Hoffmeister
(IDTA)
Georg Schnauffer
(ARENA2036)
Stephan Hamm
(SFKL)
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| 17:00 | End of the event |