AAS4WH

Contents and focus

The focus was on technical and practical issues for the productive use of the Asset Administration Shell in day-to-day business. A welcome from the hosts was followed by impulses from projects, industry and research on topics such as:

• Backend integration and data room connection,
• Query Language and Security,
• Digital twins and knowledge graphs,
• Semantic Wikibase as an open platform for concept descriptions.

The presentations illustrated how far-reaching AAS technology has now become in industrial practice. Examples from Schunk, Smart Factory-KL, Neoception, Fraunhofer IESE and ARENA2036 showed ways of breaking down data silos, implementing safety requirements and making knowledge available in a structured manner.

Workshops in the afternoon

In the afternoon, the participants delved deeper into the topics in four parallel workshops. The topics discussed were

• the use of digital twins for networking AAS data,
• Experience from real implementations in production environments,
• Back-end integrations as the key to interoperability,
• as well as new approaches to modeling software and services with the AAS.

The workshops promoted a practice-oriented exchange and helped to identify specific challenges and solutions.

Conclusion

The meeting clearly showed that the Asset Administration Shell is evolving from the concept phase to industrial implementation. Interoperability, security and open semantic systems remain key success factors. The organizers drew a positive conclusion: the open dialogue between projects, companies and institutions strengthens common understanding and drives standardization forward.