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Industrial Digital Twin Association (IDTA) and Open Manufacturing Platform (OMP) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to build and consolidate a successful global ecosystem for interoperable industrial Digital Twins and in particular the Asset Administration Shell (AAS).

Dr. Thomas Kuhn from Fraunhofer IESE, as representative of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft for the project "BaSys", signed a "Memorandum of Understanding" ( MoU) with the Industrial Digital Twin Association e.V. (IDTA) at Hannover Messe 2022. The two partners are thus establishing a contractually agreed cooperation for the standardisation of Asset Administration Shells for industry.

Both associations aim to merge sustainability and digitalisation in order to advance climate protection in industry. This is the key point of the Memorandum of Understanding between the technology initiative SmartFactory KL e.V. (SF-KL) and the Industrial Digital Twin Association e.V. (IDTA).

The Industrial Digital Twin Association e.V. (IDTA) will exhibit and inform about the current developments for the technical implementation of the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) as a digital twin at the Hannover Messe from 30 May to 2 June 2022. IDTA will be on the shared stand of Plattform Industrie 4.0 alongside Catena-X, Gaia-X and other exhibitors in hall 8 stand number D24.

The Industrial Digital Twin Association e.V. (IDTA) and the German corporate initiative Deutsche Unternehmensinitiative Energieeffizienz e.V. (DENEFF) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly promote innovation in the field of climate protection in the industrial sector. The two partners emphasise in particular the importance of digitisation as an enabler for the decarbonisation of industry.