Find out all about Catena-X and its application in the automotive value chain. Catena-X provides a platform for secure and efficient data exchange along the entire supply chain. This is crucial to strengthen the competitiveness of the German automotive industry and to meet the requirements of modern production.

For more information about the Basics of Catena-X as well as participation in the convoy project "Getting to know Catena-X", please click on the corresponding subpages. 

Catena-X is an open, collaborative data ecosystem for the sovereign exchange of data along the entire value chain of the automotive industry. Catena-X is thus doing pioneering work and laying the foundations for data ecosystems in other industries (see Manufacturing-X).

The common goal of Catena-X is to increase the competitiveness of the automotive industry and create new data-based business models. The continuity of data chains across the entire product and production lifecycle as well as along the entire supply chain offers the industry as a whole and each individual participant a wide range of added values. These range from greater resilience against the backdrop of numerous global challenges to more efficient processes.

The ten use cases, with which the project was launched, illustrate the areas in which advantages arise for each company involved. These include areas such as sustainability, traceability, quality management, and demand and capacity management. Examples of the improvements achieved include more efficient quality and logistics processes, greater transparency regarding sustainable CO2 reduction, simplified master data management and significant progress in product development.

Catena-X stands for data sovereignty: data suppliers and data consumers should be able to exchange data with each other in a legally secure and self-determined manner. Those who provide data retain control over their data and decide individually who receives this data, when, for how long and under what conditions. All standards and values ​​are based on the Gaia-X developed specifications.

Certification and standardization by the Catena-X Automotive Network eV sets the common guardrails within which the common infrastructure of the data ecosystem is built.

Catena-X is an ecosystem and not an ego system. The advantages of individuals are to be combined to create progress for the entire automotive industry. Building on shared values ​​that are shaped by the European understanding of sovereign data exchange, Catena-X is pursuing a common approach. Suppliers and OEMs are to be brought together, with small and medium-sized companies acting on an equal footing with large corporations.

ARENA-X serves as a test environment for Catena-X, while the project Transfer-X provides easy access to Catena-X concepts and technologies. These initiatives demonstrate how Catena-X can be applied in practice and facilitate entry into the data ecosystem.

David Görzig from ARENA2036 presented these projects as part of the 3rd Innovation Show on March 19, 2024For a comprehensive overview and classification of the technologies and projects, you can watch the following video and download the presentation as documentation (see top right).