Vitesco joins Catena-X community – Inexperienced Automotive Congress

Vitesco Applied sciences, a number one worldwide provider of superior drive applied sciences and options for e-mobility has joined the Catena-X Automotive Community. Catena-X, based in 2021, is the primary complete, collaborative and open information ecosystem alongside the complete automotive worth chain.

In June, Catena-X reported that it had grown to 104 members. The central communication part of the Catena-X structure is the Eclipse Information Area Connector (EDC)—the connection for sovereign, cross-organizational information trade.

The guiding ideas within the growth of the EDC are independence, simplicity, and the preservation of a small and environment friendly core. The performance required for that is bundled within the open-source challenge “Eclipse Dataspace Connectors”, to which the Catena-X companions contribute.

Vitesco says that it sees nice added worth on this community created by the automotive business, for instance in areas akin to materials compliance and social sustainability, however above all additionally for all times cycle engineering. To optimize the environmental footprint of latest merchandise, Vitesco Applied sciences is at present rolling out this technique in all of its growth and manufacturing processes.

As a member of Catena-X Automotive Community e.V., we now have entry to rather more numerical information and are in a position to present informative information. It will allow us to look at our merchandise much more carefully in future with regard to their CO₂ footprint and derive appropriate measures for CO₂ discount primarily based on the data gained or hotspots recognized.

—Khosrau Heidary, Head of Life Cycle Engineering at Vitesco Applied sciences

Calculating the product carbon footprint (PCF) requires information from all phases of the life cycle—i.e., from the extraction of uncooked supplies from the atmosphere, by way of the manufacturing and use phases, to the tip of a product’s life. Information trade within the automotive worth chain is at present tough as a result of there isn’t a harmonized technique for calculating PCFs, which implies that the PCFs from totally different firms usually are not comparable. Furthermore, there isn’t a standardized information format for the trade of PCF information that ensures the info sovereignty of the businesses. A standardized interface for the trade of PCF information has additionally been absent till now.

Catena-X Automotive Community e.V. needs to unravel these issues with a promising method that’s of nice profit not completely, however particularly for the automotive worth chain.