Asset Administration Shell (AAS) Editor and Viewer

AAS

The AIMEN Shell Toolkit provides a comprehensive solution for managing Asset Administration Shells (AAS) in Industry 4.0 environments. Our tool facilitates the creation, management, and visualization of digital twins, ensuring seamless integration and collaboration.

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What is Asset Administration Shell?

The Asset Administration Shell (AAS) is a key concept in Industrie 4.0, serving as a digital counterpart of physical assets like machines, plants, or components within information and communication technology systems. This digital twin facilitates seamless communication and interaction between various objects and systems in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). AAS is designed with a modular structure, comprising multiple submodels, each representing distinct aspects of an asset. These submodels are independent in terms of semantics, and their selection depends on specific use cases and needs.

Features of Our AAS Editor

Create & Modify AAS

Easily define new Asset Administration Shells or edit existing ones with an intuitive interface.

Submodel Management

Organize asset data into structured submodels, enabling better data utilization.

Standardized Data Exchange

Ensure compliance with Industry 4.0 standards

Interoperability

Facilitate seamless data integration across different platforms and industrial applications.

Digital Twin Implementation

Leverage the AAS to build comprehensive digital twins for predictive maintenance, optimization, and data analytics.

Security & Access Control

Manage user permissions with Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) to protect sensitive information.

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Human-Centric AAS Editor for Industry 4.0

Empower your Industry 4.0 initiatives with the AIMEN Shell Toolkit's Human-Centric Asset Administration Shell (AAS) Editor. Simplify integration, enhance data accuracy, and streamline your industrial processes.

  • User-Friendly Interface: The editor is designed to be intuitive and accessible, making AAS creation and management easy for all users.
  • Robust Data Validation: Built-in data validation ensures that each AAS is configured accurately and meets necessary standards.
  • OPC UA Server Configuration: Generate OPC UA server configurations directly from your AAS models, streamlining integration with industrial systems.

Why Everyone Loves AIMEN Shell Toolkit

Our application simplifies the creation of an Asset Administration Shell through an intuitive, step-by-step guided form.

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Create new AAS

This feature helps ensure that all necessary data for the AAS is included with minimal effort, making it ideal for users who are new to the process.

  • User-Friendly Guidance: A step-by-step process makes AAS creation easy and understandable.
  • Data Validation: Each stage checks data accuracy, ensuring that only complete, viable information is submitted.
  • Efficient Completion: Create a minimum viable Asset Administration Shell quickly, meeting essential requirements without overwhelming details.
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Share AAS's

Easily create and share AAS within designated workspaces, enabling collaborative management of digital twins. This feature allows you to control who can view or edit each AAS, providing a secure and flexible environment for team collaboration.

  • Invite New Users to Your Workspace: Add team members to your workspace and empower them to work on shared AAS's.
  • Manage Admin Privileges: Control user permissions with admin privileges, ensuring the right level of access for each team member.
  • Remove Unused Users: Maintain a streamlined workspace by deleting users who are no longer active.

Asset Administration Shell Concepts

The Asset Administration Shell is a foundational concept for implementing Industry 4.0 and IIoT solutions. It provides a standardized, interoperable, and secure way to manage and utilize asset data, enabling smarter and more efficient industrial operations.

Digital Twin

The AAS acts as a digital twin of a physical asset, encapsulating all relevant information about the asset, including its properties, status, and capabilities. This digital representation allows for better monitoring, control, and optimization of the asset.

Standardization

The AAS provides a standardized framework for describing assets, ensuring interoperability between different systems and devices. This standardization is crucial for seamless integration and communication in industrial environments.

Data Management

The AAS contains various submodels that represent different aspects of the asset, such as technical specifications, operational data, and maintenance records. These submodels enable comprehensive data management and facilitate data exchange between systems.

Interoperability:

By adhering to standardized protocols and data formats, the AAS ensures that assets from different manufacturers can communicate and work together. This interoperability is essential for creating flexible and scalable industrial systems.

Lifecycle Management:

The AAS supports the entire lifecycle of an asset, from design and production to operation and maintenance. It provides a unified view of the asset's history and current state, enabling informed decision-making and efficient lifecycle management.t

Integration with IT Systems:

The AAS bridges the gap between operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) systems. It allows for seamless integration with enterprise systems, such as ERP and MES, facilitating data-driven decision-making and process optimization.

Frequently Asked Questions

The AIMEN Shell Toolkit is a user-friendly application designed to simplify the creation and management of Asset Administration Shell (AAS). It provides tools for defining, organizing, and visualizing digital twins of physical assets, making it easy for users to bridge operational technology and information systems.

About Us

AIMEN is a multidisciplinary innovation and technology center specializing in R&D&I activities and providing technological services to industries in the fields of materials, advanced manufacturing processes, digitalization, and sustainability.

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Who we are ?

As a proud partner developer within the Zero-SWARM initiative, we contribute to an ambitious project aimed at transforming European manufacturing. Zero-SWARM is a project with a total public private investment of almost €10 million launched on the 1st June 2022, aiming to accelerate the uptake of advanced 5G technologies by European manufacturing sector.


The project mission is to achieve climate neutral and digitized production via a multidisciplinary, human centric, objective oriented innovative approach resulting in technical solutions for open swarm framework, non-public 5G network, active information continuum and digital twin.

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Lucía Alonso FerreiraTeam Leader

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Davinia Fernández MartínezFull Stack Developer

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Lara Barja BesadaFull Stack Developer

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Andrés Pérez VazFull Stack Developer

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