The Factory-X consortium has unveiled its first set of open-source components designed to enable a shared digital ecosystem. The initiative aims to build infrastructure that is fully interoperable with other Manufacturing-X initiatives such as Catena-X. In this initial release, three key repositories have been published to support secure and standardized data exchange across organizations.
Factory-X EDC – A Secure Gateway for Data Exchange
The Factory-X EDC is based on the Eclipse project Eclipse Dataspace Components (EDC), which implements both the Dataspace Protocol (DSP) and the Decentralized Claims Protocol (DCP). Each participant in the digital ecosystem can run this component to expose endpoints for negotiating and executing data sharing agreements. While it builds on tractusx-edc, it introduces Factory-X-specific extensions that can be imported into custom builds by software providers. Further alignment with upstream projects is planned. The EDC acts as a secure and unified gateway to a company’s exposed data within the digital ecosystem.
👉 Click here to access the repository » factory-x-contributions/factoryx-edc
Embedded-DSP Library – Direct Integration for Business Applications
The embedded-dsp-lib provides a reusable component that enables business applications to integrate DSP and DCP functionalities directly. This eliminates the need for a separate connector service, allowing any data-providing application to interact directly with the participant’s identity wallet. Java Spring applications, in particular, can import the library for seamless authorization integration.
👉 Click here to access the repository » factory-x-contributions/dataspace-protocol-lib
Testbed for AAS-MQTT-Events – Enabling Event-Based Communication
The async-aas-helm repository bootstraps leading open-source implementations of the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) standard and deploys them on Kubernetes. This setup is especially valuable for event-driven use cases, as it includes a co-deployed MQTT broker. Data consumers can subscribe to this broker to receive real-time notifications of changes in the AAS repositories.
👉 Click here to access the repository » factory-x-contributions/async-aas-helm
