The MX Guidance Board ensures that all participating projects are contributing to the creation of one compatible and interoperable digital ecosystem across industries, that participating projects not overlapping, and that the resulting ecosystem is operated by one or more interoperable operating entities.

Our vision: interoperability across industries

Participation in Manufacturing-X brings clear advantages for industrial companies. However, most companies are engaged across traditional industry boundaries. Let’s use the example of “Small Motors Inc” – a fictional yet typical industrial company that participates in many of these digital ecosystems.

For them, interoperability means:

• They are part of only one governing body (if any).
• They will have to register, identify and authenticate only once to be able to collaborate with any other company in any of the participating digital ecosystems and to access the resources (app store) of all digital ecosystems.
• They will have to model their data only once for a given use case.
• They will have to use only one set of core protocols (e.g. connectors).
• Use cases addressing the same goals (e.g. Product Carbon Fotoprint management) are as identical as possible across all data ecosystems, so that companies only need to use one set of processes across industries.

Key tasks of the Manufacturing-X Guidance Board

To achieve the stated goals, the Manufacturing-X Guidance Board will: