Asset Administration Shell (AAS): Bridging gaps in industrial connectivity
Create, manage, share and receive AAS of industrial assets
The power of the Asset Administration Shell
The Asset Administration Shell (AAS) is a vendor-independent standard that allows you to implement digital twins for Industry 4.0. It enables your company to describe information about products and virtual objects that are created during the life cycle of these assets in a standardised way and thus exchange them interoperably. This data is available for interactions with manufacturers, suppliers, customers, and operators.
CONTACT Elements provides all the functions you need for this key technology. AAS of your assets can be created, managed and shared in the software. For example, your company can create transparency about the real-time status of all machines and plants or exchange data along the product life cycle. Based on this, you can increase efficiency in production and service and create new, product-related offerings.
Benefits of an AAS
- Ensure cross-vendor interoperability and communication capability
- Improve products, create new services
- Increase transparency towards customers, suppliers and partners
- Use an industry-neutral standard for the integration of data rooms
- Scale and expand AAS as required
Using AAS in CONTACT Elements
Enable cross-manufacturer interoperability
An AAS contains all information that is relevant during an asset’s lifecycle (e.g., operating data, handover documents, or technical specifications). This transparency helps to reduce errors and speed up processes. In CONTACT Elements, all it takes is a few clicks. The submodels within the Asset Administration Shell – which describe functional areas – are displayed in a dashboard overview. You can download, upload, update, or (de)activate them via a widget.
Enable cross-manufacturer interoperability
An AAS contains all information that is relevant during an asset’s lifecycle (e.g., operating data, handover documents, or technical specifications). This transparency helps to reduce errors and speed up processes. In CONTACT Elements, all it takes is a few clicks. The submodels within the Asset Administration Shell – which describe functional areas – are displayed in a dashboard overview. You can download, upload, update, or (de)activate them via a widget.
An AAS contains all information that is relevant during an asset’s lifecycle (e.g., operating data, handover documents, or technical specifications). This transparency helps to reduce errors and speed up processes. In CONTACT Elements, all it takes is a few clicks. The submodels within the Asset Administration Shell – which describe functional areas – are displayed in a dashboard overview. You can download, upload, update, or (de)activate them via a widget.
Improve products, create new services
The data from an Asset Administration Shell helps to improve existing products and manufacturing processes and to implement new, product-related services. Companies can integrate AI algorithms and models into CONTACT Elements to analyze AAS data. This opens up numerous opportunities, such as predictive approaches for maintenance and service, automation of service tasks, or new, personalized services.
Improve products, create new services
The data from an Asset Administration Shell helps to improve existing products and manufacturing processes and to implement new, product-related services. Companies can integrate AI algorithms and models into CONTACT Elements to analyze AAS data. This opens up numerous opportunities, such as predictive approaches for maintenance and service, automation of service tasks, or new, personalized services.
The data from an Asset Administration Shell helps to improve existing products and manufacturing processes and to implement new, product-related services. Companies can integrate AI algorithms and models into CONTACT Elements to analyze AAS data. This opens up numerous opportunities, such as predictive approaches for maintenance and service, automation of service tasks, or new, personalized services.
Enable end-to-end information streams
Via the AAS, you can securely exchange all relevant asset data between IT systems with suppliers, partners and customers. CONTACT Elements thus supports you in creating consistent cross-departmental or cross-company processes while integrating product information in a standardized way.
Enable end-to-end information streams
Via the AAS, you can securely exchange all relevant asset data between IT systems with suppliers, partners and customers. CONTACT Elements thus supports you in creating consistent cross-departmental or cross-company processes while integrating product information in a standardized way.
Via the AAS, you can securely exchange all relevant asset data between IT systems with suppliers, partners and customers. CONTACT Elements thus supports you in creating consistent cross-departmental or cross-company processes while integrating product information in a standardized way.
Integrate data into connected ecosystems
Data rooms enable a secure and efficient exchange of information between companies. The central challenges here are the standardisation and management of digital information. CONTACT Elements uses the AAS for seamless integration into data rooms. It optimises data exchange, facilitates the management of digital information and supports the digitalisation of processes. This promotes efficiency and innovation in companies and creates a foundation for networked value creation.
Integrate data into connected ecosystems
Data rooms enable a secure and efficient exchange of information between companies. The central challenges here are the standardisation and management of digital information. CONTACT Elements uses the AAS for seamless integration into data rooms. It optimises data exchange, facilitates the management of digital information and supports the digitalisation of processes. This promotes efficiency and innovation in companies and creates a foundation for networked value creation.
Data rooms enable a secure and efficient exchange of information between companies. The central challenges here are the standardisation and management of digital information. CONTACT Elements uses the AAS for seamless integration into data rooms. It optimises data exchange, facilitates the management of digital information and supports the digitalisation of processes. This promotes efficiency and innovation in companies and creates a foundation for networked value creation.
Increase sustainability
With the AAS submodel for the Product Carbon Footprint, you can record and share sustainability data systematically. This not only simplifies compliance with regulations and information obligations. It also supports product development. Your teams gain access to all the relevant data for the evaluation of environmental aspects (e.g., the CO₂ equivalents of purchased parts or aspects such as energy consumption and waste reduction). This level of transparency helps you minimize the negative environmental impacts of assets throughout their lifecycle at an early stage of product development.
Increase sustainability
With the AAS submodel for the Product Carbon Footprint, you can record and share sustainability data systematically. This not only simplifies compliance with regulations and information obligations. It also supports product development. Your teams gain access to all the relevant data for the evaluation of environmental aspects (e.g., the CO₂ equivalents of purchased parts or aspects such as energy consumption and waste reduction). This level of transparency helps you minimize the negative environmental impacts of assets throughout their lifecycle at an early stage of product development.
With the AAS submodel for the Product Carbon Footprint, you can record and share sustainability data systematically. This not only simplifies compliance with regulations and information obligations. It also supports product development. Your teams gain access to all the relevant data for the evaluation of environmental aspects (e.g., the CO₂ equivalents of purchased parts or aspects such as energy consumption and waste reduction). This level of transparency helps you minimize the negative environmental impacts of assets throughout their lifecycle at an early stage of product development.
CONTACT drives AAS innovation
In the Industrial Digital Twin Association (IDTA), 113 organizations from research, industry and software work on further developing the AAS and making it usable in industry. CONTACT Software actively contributes to the association, which defines the content and submodels of an AAS. Accordingly, our Elements platform is listed as “Industry-ready” on the IDTA website.
AAS in customer service
As part of the AASHub research project, CONTACT Software has developed a solution for the exchange of Asset Administration Shells in collaboration with the Ruhr University Bochum and industry partners. In our technical article, you can read how the AASHub simplifies work in the service department and learn about future scenarios that will be possible with the AAS.
AAS in customer service
As part of the AASHub research project, CONTACT Software has developed a solution for the exchange of Asset Administration Shells in collaboration with the Ruhr University Bochum and industry partners. In our technical article, you can read how the AASHub simplifies work in the service department and learn about future scenarios that will be possible with the AAS.
As part of the AASHub research project, CONTACT Software has developed a solution for the exchange of Asset Administration Shells in collaboration with the Ruhr University Bochum and industry partners. In our technical article, you can read how the AASHub simplifies work in the service department and learn about future scenarios that will be possible with the AAS.
