Our Highlights: ✅ Leaders‘ Dialoge: our Consortia leads Harald Gossner, Intel & Tobias Kutzler, Fraunhofer IFF as well as Haris Avgoustinos participated – Main topic #IndustialAI ✅ Visit of Katherina Reiche (Bundeswirtschaftsministerin) & #DefenceX at our Plattform Industrie 4.0 area ✅ Delegations from Asia and many visitors at our SEMICONDUCTOR-X Booth for intensive exchange ✅ Team Spirit and Fun of our team showcasing our #demonstrators
Amazing booth at Plattform Industrie 4.0 area 👍 SEMICONDUCTOR-X Team and Friends share updates, thanks to the great preparation of Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden
✅ We shared our #demonstrators first time ✅ Some delegations and many friends visited our booth ✅ cool people around
Together with Chem-X Projekt and Decide4ECO we showcase that a seamless data flow between different data ecosystems is practically feasible. ▶️ Automated. Standardised. Ready for real-world decisions.
#Demonstrator: Our Cross Data Ecosystem Demonstrator makes it tangible – PCF data is transferred along the supply chain from a raw material supplier to a chip manufacturer on to an OEM. 👉 A Digital Material Passport (#DMP) is provided by Chem-X 👉 In SEMICONDUCTOR-X, all Product Carbon Footprint values – including DMP data – are consolidated across the entire semiconductor manufacturing process ☑️ The resulting PCF data of a produced chip is then made available to Decide4Eco for further applications, such as the production of a HiFi headphone ☑️ All data is exchanged in a standardized format using the Asset Administration Shell (AAS)
Prof. Dirk Reichelt from Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden sums it up: “Seamless cross data ecosystem communication is the key to efficient data exchange along complex supply chains. The demonstrator showcases such integration across multiple Manufacturing-X projects – securing the interoperability and resilience of global value chains.”
This demonstrator goes beyond a standard proof-of-concept: Behind the scenes, two independent operating companies — HTW Dresden and Smart Systems Hub — each with their own onboarded participants, enable true data exchange across multiple data ecosystems, reflecting real-world industrial complexity.
Cross-ecosystem data exchange is no longer a promise. Come see the proof 📍 Hannover Messe, Halle 13, Stand C24 | April 20-24, 2026
💡 Wie bereits angekündigt, sind wir mit unserem Projekt SEMICONDUCTOR-X als Teil der Manufacturing-X Initiative auf der HANNOVER MESSE auf dem Gemeinschaftsstand der Plattform Industrie 4.0 in Halle 13, Stand C24 vertreten!
🤝 Ganz besonders freuen wir uns natürlich, gemeinsam mit Decide4ECO einen Demonstrator zu präsentieren, der zwei Datenräume miteinander verbindet und den Datenaustausch über beide Datenräume hinweg zeigt!
🚀 Aber auch den MX-Port von Factory-X – The Digital Ecosystem sowie die Operationalisierung von Datenräumen von Cofinity-X, Smart Systems Hub und der IDTA sollten Sie auf keinen Fall verpassen!
This year, the SEMICONDUCTOR-X project is once again live at the HANNOVER MESSE — and we’re excited to share what we’ve been working on!
📍 Visit us in Hall 13, Booth C24 at the joint booth of Plattform Industrie 4.0 and discover how data spaces and the Asset Administration Shell are being brought to life in SEMICONDUCTOR‑X.
🔍 What awaits you?
✅ Real demonstrators showing how we strengthen the resilience of global semiconductor supply chains ✅ Approaches to reducing energy demand and carbon footprint ✅ Practical insights into applied Industrie 4.0 technologies ✅ Experts from the project consortium ready to discuss use cases, challenges, and opportunities
Whether you’re curious about cutting‑edge digitalization, sustainable semiconductor production, or future-ready supply chains — our team is looking forward to inspiring conversations.
👉 Mark your calendar and stop by! We look forward to welcoming you in Hannover.
But can you really answer: 👉 Where does it originate? 👉 Which exact units are affected? 👉 And which partners need to be informed?
In today’s semiconductor supply chains, #production is highly distributed across multiple partners. Traceability often ends at company boundaries, data is fragmented, and component relationships are incomplete – making root cause analysis slow and uncertain.
Our Traceability Demonstrator in SEMICONDUCTOR-X addresses this by establishing a continuous digital thread from wafer to module across the entire value chain.
In a representative multi-partner supply chain setup, the demonstrator shows how: ✅ wafers, dies and modules are uniquely linked via #DigitalTwins ✅ traceability information is securely shared across partners via #EDC ✅ failures can be traced back to the exact #wafer position ✅ forward and backward tracing enable precise impact #analysis
And the impact is significant: ➡️ without traceability: Risk of recalling whole lots with thousands of chips ➡️ with digital traceability: only a handful of units need to be recalled 👉 Less mass recall. More precision. Better decisions.
If you want to see our Tracability demonstrator practically interact in the semiconductor industry, visit us at HANNOVER MESSE 2026, date 20.4.2026 -24.4.2026 at Hall A13, the world’s leading industrial tech fair 💪
Our Application Cluster 3 Team #Sustainability in the Semiconductor-X project is turning ecological sustainability in the #semiconductor industry into something ➡️ measurable, ➡️ comparable and ➡️ actionable.
To demonstrate this in practice, a representative mini supply chain is being set up among project partners, using an exemplary System-in-Package (SiP) flow for heterogeneous integration.
👉 We’re excited to share ongoing activities from the SEMICONDUCTOR-X project, demonstrating how the Catena-X “One-Up-One-Down” Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) exchange mechanism can be put into practice for supply chain carbon accounting.
To bring this to life, we’ve set up a representative mini supply chain among project partners that reflects key stages of semiconductor manufacturing. In this use case, we focus on heterogeneous integration within an exemplary System-in-Package (SiP) production flow and showcase how PCF data can be exchanged between the involved actors.
This work demonstrates how standardized #PCF data sharing can significantly improve transparency, interoperability, and scalability of carbon accounting across complex semiconductor value chains. Owners: Franz Wenninger and Fraunhofer EMFT team
Stay tuned for more insights as we continue to drive practical Catena-X implementations in the electronics sector. We give a first #DEMO and showcase at our booth HANNOVER MESSE 2026 (April 20–24) at Hall 13 C24, the world’s leading industrial tech fair.
With our demonstrator Maintenance Logbook, we are taking a pivotal step to overcome one of the big challenges in cross-company service: fragmented documentation.
The use case developed by Bosch, DAS Environmental Expert GmbH, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden and algorismic gmbh showcases the solution.
🔧 A digital Maintenance Logbook turns an on-site service visit into a fully connected workflow: ✅ A digital service report is documented in the standardized AAS format ✅ instantly exchanged via EDC ✅ and kept up to date across all systems ✅ A connected ecosystem that enables predictive maintenance and continuous process optimization
💬 Marcel Gruschwitz explains the impact of the solution: “With this implementation, we are strengthening the foundation for predictive maintenance and long-term sustainability across our manufacturing network. It demonstrates our capability for secure and standardized cross company data exchange and enables continuous optimization of processes and resource efficiency — fully aligned with our ambition to shape the future of manufacturing.” — Marcel Gruschwitz, Use Case Optimization of Subfab/grey room through control approaches → #SemiconductorX
🏭 Our subfab facilities will be more efficient, more transparent, and ready for the future. 🤝
🎉 We’re excited to give a first #DEMO and showcase at our booth HANNOVER MESSE 2026 (April 20–24) at Hall 13 C24, the world’s leading industrial tech fair. Looking forward to sharing more insights there.
📸 Fotocredits: Maintenance Logbook by DAS Environmental Experts / David Pinzer
☑️ High data quality is not an end in itself: It is the foundation for reliable AI models, sound decisions, and a resilient value chain. ▶️ How do you assess whether data is truly ready for machine learning across company boundaries, without exposing sensitive information? 💡 🔍
As part of SEMICONDUCTOR-X, OptWare GmbH developed a #DataCompass: 👉 A solution that leverages the #EclipseDataspaceConnector (EDC) for sovereign data exchange 👉 #AssetAdministrationShell (AAS) as a standardized data format. AI Data Readiness and quality metrics are calculated automatically. The structured feedback flows back to the data provider as a standardized AAS submodel – enabling transparency without compromising data sovereignty🔄🔐
What sets it apart: The assessment is intelligently processed and delivers concrete recommendations – from data cleansing to suitability for specific machine learning tasks 📈 See it live at HANNOVER MESSE 2026 – April 20–24, Hall A13! 📍
Fraunhofer IIS is developing a demonstrator in the context of the SEMICONDUCTOR-X project, will be showcased live at HANNOVER MESSE
🎯 Focus: AI applications built on the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) – interoperable, standardized, and designed across the entire semiconductor value chain. 🔎Use Case 1: Data-driven production planning across complex supply chains By combining probabilistic demand forecasting with stochastic optimization, the system generates robust decision support for: 🔹Production and inventory planning 🔹Scenario comparison 🔹Supply chain design ✅Goal: Global optimization despite uncertain demand and long lead times.
🔍Use Case 2: Improving process transparency between material supplier and fab. Using tabular machine learning and explainability methods, the demonstrator enables: 🔹Quality prediction 🔹Identification of process parameters influencing quality 🔹Tailored information in the CoA for downstream process steps ✅Goal: Higher quality and better cross-company alignment.
Built on IDTA, Catena-X and SEMI standards – extended with dedicated submodels for forecasting and optimization.
If you want to see how #AI and #AAS practically interact in the semiconductor industry, visit us at #HannoverMesse2026, date 20.4.2026 -24.4.2026 at Hall A13, the world’s leading industrial tech fair 💪
