International Manufacturing-X: Make Data Work

Over the coming years, the entire value chain will become increasingly integrated and supported by digitalization, from product, production and process design to on-site customer service and circularity. No country, no initiative, no company can achieve this on its own. International Manufacturing-X (IMX) will implement a federated, decentralized, and collaborative data ecosystem for smart manufacturing to support greater resilience, sustainability, and competitiveness.

Enabling global collaboration: International Manufacturing-X Council

The IMX Council is a unified effort driven by an international ecosystem to further the development of IMX. Open collaboration, inclusiveness, transparency, and equal treatment of all the partners inside this ecosystem are key. The IMX Council will determine collectively what is needed, what to do and who will be responsible.

Vision

CONNECT value chains and manufacturing data networks across industries and countries.

IMPLEMENT global foundations for data-driven resilient, sovereign and climate-neutral production covering the full life cycle of production and products.

ENABLE innovative value creation in an interoperable and sovereign data ecosystem.

Mission

FACILITATE use cases on the collaborative use of industrial data for all manufacturing industries.

DEVELOP the requirements, influence international standardization and framework development for basic infra-structure to deploy federated data-ecosystems for manufacturing.

PROVIDE guidelines to leverage easy-to-use applications and dynamically scale the ecosystems.

IMX Council

Open collaboration, inclusiveness, transparency and equal treatment of all the partners inside this ecosystem are key. The IMX Council will determine collectively what is needed, what to do and who will be responsible.

Contributing initiatives

Alliance Industrie du Futur (France) | CESMII The Smart Manufacturing Institute (USA) | Confindustria (Italy) | KOSMO Korea Smart Manufacturing Office (Korea) | Offensive de Transformation Numérique (Canada) | Plattform Industrie 4.0 (Germany) | Plattform Industrie 4.0 Österreich (Austria) | RRI Robot Revolution & Industrial IoT Initiative (Japan) | Smart Industry Program (the Netherlands)