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Kits & Core Services

Kits aim to accelerate the adoption, development, and operations of the next generation Business Applications and Services. Catena-X wants to support developers in order to accelerate the development of services and applications to contribute significantly to the rapid scaling of the Catena-X ecosystem.

Ecosystem

The Catena-X vision is to connect the automotive industry via one global data space to solve industry problems, together.

To establish this one global data space and enable collaboration and interoperability, Catena-X releases and updates standards and developer resources as one of its key offerings. Standards including whitepapers are published on the Catena-X Association website (Standard Library) and developer resources including KITs, compatible implementations, and release guidelines are published on the Tractus-X Website.

With KITs, the Catena-X customer journey comes to life - consisting of the following 5 steps to participate in Catena-X data space: (1) Inform, (2) Connect, (3) Boost, (4) Adopt, and (5) Utilize. KITs offer a dedicated set of tools to empower and stimulate solution providers to create interoperable solutions for each step of the customer journey. These solutions can be offered on different marketplaces in the Catena-X data space. Adopters such as OEMs, suppliers, or recyclers can either use KITs or solutions from the marketplaces to support their customer journey.

The first KIT that follows this journey is the Traceability KIT.

Catena-X KITs provide open-source resources and documentation to foster the collaboration and trust governed by the Eclipse Tractus-X Project. The initial offering of the Catena-X ecosystem is structured along the following four domains - one network domain and three business domains:

  • Network Domain for Shared Services
  • Business Domain PLM and Quality
  • Business Domain Resiliency
  • Business Domain Sustainability Domain

Three different views

KITs provide a set of standards, documentation, reference implementations, quick setup guides, etc., that enable participants to build and operate interoperable and certified applications / services easier and faster. Mandatory and optional deliverables depend on the type of KIT. Developers (e.g., application and service provider) can use and integrate KITs into their products to create a multi-vendor, interoperable, innovative, and scalable ecosystem. Furthermore, data provider and consumer can use KITs to connect to the Catena-X data space.

Read more about the deliverables.

Our KITs

Unlock the power of kits. Browse the latest kits, their documentation, including tutorials,sample code, articles, and API reference.

Business PartnerGet high-quality data businesspartner data records including theunique identifier.
Data Chain Data Chain KIT is made for apps and services to access connected data distributed between organizations.
Connector The EDC as a connector implements a framework agreement for sovereign, cross-organizational data exchange.
TraceabilityTrace parts and materials across theentire value chain to enable datadriven use cases over all n-tier levels.
Behaviour TwinMaximize the potential of usage datathrough calculation services andsimulations.
Digital TwinDigital Twins enable data-levelinteroperability - even betweenparties previously unknown to eachother.
Eco PassLeverage the transparency of digitalproduct passports to strengthensustainability & compliance.
Online SimulationGain increased supply chaintransparency through collaborativesimulation across all stakeholders.
Data driven qualitymanagementData driven quality managementenables data provider and consumerto exchange and analyse existing dataacross company boundaries.
Scalable & Efficient SemanticDataspace Federation.Generate Knowledge from Data.Agents
CircularityThere will be more Kits coming in thenext months. Stay tuned.
Demand and CapacityManagementQuick build of solutions for companiesof any size to engage a collaborativecapacity management.
Modular Production Enable customized production (batch size 1) without significant increase of costs.
PCFProduct-specific CO2 footprint.
Manufacturing as a Service Create a federated network of networks to connect manufacturing supply and demand.
ESSEnvironmental and Social StandardsIncident Management KIT
Industry Core Connceting Use-Cases with Core Services
PURISPredictive Unit Realtime InformationService
Supply Chain Disruption
Notifications Inform partners about disruptions inthe supply chain.
Model Based DevelopmentFederated simulation and dataprocessing.
Logistics Provide packing information, transport data and customs topics.
Data GovernanceEnable and simplify data governancewithin Catena-X.
Customs Basis for a more efficient customs process and ensure a robust preference calculation result.

Preview of our KITs

Unlock the power of KITs. Browse the latest preview on the KITs from the Resiliency Domain.

Design Resources

These open source compliant design assets should help when you build and release a KIT in Tractus-X.

KIT Design

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