Use case CO2 emissions & PCF regulations:
(Further) development of a harmonized set of rules for the Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) in the aerospace industry and integration into a Digital Product Passport (DPP).
Fraunhofer IPK is responsible for analyzing the transferability of the Catena-X results, developing a consolidated and interoperable solution for the circular economy, ensuring consistent data models and solutions with Catena-X, other overarching projects and the Industrial Digital Twin Association e.V. (IDTA), and achieving a coordinated architecture for the overall project.
Circular economy use case:
Implementing circular economy strategies and establishing digital twins in the aviation industry by creating a continuous data and material cycle across the entire life cycle of components and materials.
In particular, Fraunhofer IPK researchers can contribute their expertise in the development of digital twins and assistance systems for circular economy. This includes an as-is analysis of circularity in the aviation product lifecycle and the identification of stakeholder requirements and regulatory frameworks along the entire value chain. In addition, existing approaches for validation and evaluation of circularity will be analyzed and logics for economically and ecologically optimized decisions will be developed. Close cooperation with other initiatives such as IDTA and Catena-X e.V. is planned in order to link data models, develop interoperable solutions and map life cycle wide dependencies. The development of decision support applications for different processes in the aerospace industry and the evaluation of usability by SMEs are further focal points.
Applications and services:
Provision of basic services and standards for barrier-free interoperability in the data ecosystem.
Fraunhofer IPK identifies and integrates the ecosystem libraries and develops the requirements for the semantic descriptions and data space assets. This includes the analysis of integration mechanisms, the definition of interfaces and the investigation of infrastructure descriptions in the data space semantics.