Horizon Europe funded CREDIT project has achieved a significant milestone with the launch of its Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Platform.
This digital infrastructure is set to enable secure management of industrial data, link data with models and services, and support advanced tools like Digital Twins and Decision Support Systems across various manufacturing settings. Following an extensive process of gathering requirements, designing architecture, and setting up infrastructure, the platform’s essential services have reached the Minimum Viable Product phase, ready for initial testing. With valuable input from industrial partners and continued alignment with set goals, the full version of the CREDIT ICT Platform is now operational and ready for testing in real-world scenarios by project partners.
The CREDIT ICT Platform is built on a modular, layered architecture that distinctly separates infrastructure, client abstraction layers tailored to specific technologies, domain logic, applications, persistence, and presentation, ensuring interoperability among layers. One of the platform’s standout features is the incorporation of semantic modeling through a dedicated Semantics Service.
This enables users to create customized data environments based on a shared, extendable foundational ontology. Industrial partners can define their own entities, properties, and relationships, thereby accurately modeling machines, sensors, processes, and materials relevant to their operational contexts and fostering interoperability across various sites and sectors. Additionally, the platform facilitates the registration and serving of both real-time data streams and historical datasets. These are processed through secure ingestion pipelines and made accessible via robust APIs for monitoring, analysis, and decision support.
CREDIT serves as the cornerstone project of the Manufacturing Helix, an open innovation community led by Crowdhelix, which connects 421 experts from 409 organizations across 54 countries, all focused on manufacturing engineering, remanufacturing, industrial digital twins, and advanced production and process technologies. Organizations interested in joining the Manufacturing Helix and engaging with the CREDIT project community can visit crowdhelix.com/helixes/manufacturing.