Process X – A Data Space for the Process Industry

Abstract The need for improved resilience, increased efficiency in production chains, and the need to raise resource efficiency require more cross‐company information exchange. Data spaces are digital ecosystems, in which companies host their own information within their systems and thus retain sovereignty over the data and its access. The Manufacturing‐X initiative is an industrial policy initiative to develop such a data space; in that context, Process‐X deals with the process industry. Within the Process‐X initiative, a showcase was developed. An exchange of regular steam forecasts enables the energy supplier to adjust the level of confidence to the forecast consumption and thus save primary energy in generation.