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The Marketplace is the central hub for the provision and exchange of AAS.

On the Marketplace, a user can search AAS that have been published by other users and download these in form of an aasx package in order to use them.

Registered users can place AAS on the Marketplace. Within the AAS Designer it is possible to load AAS from the Marketplace and edit them there. AAS created in the Designer can be published to the Marketplace at the push of a button.

The Viewer allows the data stored in an AAS to be made human readable and viewed.

The Viewer, which is included in the AAS Designer, Marketplace, Compare Tool and Reader, displays the contents of an AAS in a quick, easy-to-read, and visually appealing view.

For example, measurement data, which is available in the form of time series data, can be loaded for a selectable time period and displayed clearly in a graph.

With the Reader, the data of an AAS stored as a QR code can be made readable and viewed.

The Reader is an extension of the Viewer included in the AAS Designer and Marketplace.

In the Marketplace, a link and a QR code can be generated for each published AAS. By scanning the QR code with the AAS Reader, the Viewer displays the AAS content in a readable and visually appealing form.

AAS can be easily generated automatically with the Feed Application.

In order to generate an AAS for each individual product in production, due to the large quantity it is not practical to create Asset Administration Shells manually. For this reason, the Feed Application is available in the AAS Designer, with which AAS can be generated automatically.

Based on a type AAS as a kind of template, values are defined for the fields in the various submodels. This determines where this data should come from and how it is linked to external data sources. You choose once from various methods how the data should be inserted, e.g. by a fixed value, a function call, a web service call or from a CSV file, etc. In this way, large quantities of product AAS (instances) can be generated at the touch of a button or automatically via the integrated REST API.

The Compare Tool makes it possible to compare Asset Administration Shells with each other.

An important concept of the Asset Administration Shell is the standardized data structure. This allows assets to be compared in terms of their technical specification, operating data (energy consumption, efficiency in certain areas, etc.), interoperability, expandability, security features, compliance and certifications and much more.

compare.aas-suite.com shows as a freely usable example application how such a comparison can look. Currently, the submodels Technical Data, Article Information and parts of the Digital Nameplate are compared. The IDTA-compliant API of the AAS enables this comparison for AAS from different repositories of different providers.

We also provide different Services in the field of AAS.

We also offer further services in the area of AAS. Do you want to learn about the possibilities of using AAS, set up your first projects with it or even carry out a proof-of-concept? Do you need help in setting up a software infrastructure to work with AAS and use it beneficially in your company? Or do you need a special, customised software solution? We can also support you here!