Automobilindustrie

T-Systems Connect & Integrate has been certified for the Product Carbon Footprint use case under the latest Catena-X Titan release, supporting standardized exchange of product-level carbon data according to PCF rulebook 4.0 and Catena-X standard CX-0136. As OEMs come to depend on reliable and traceable CO₂ information from their supply chains, suppliers need a practical way to provide it without building and operating dataspace infrastructure themselves. Delivered as a managed, cloud-agnostic service, Connect & Integrate covers the path from collecting and preparing carbon information through to securely sharing it with business partners — a step from isolated sustainability reporting toward interoperable Scope 3 and product-level carbon data chains. The certification adds to a portfolio spanning advisory, onboarding, connectivity and productive business applications, including Company Certificate Management and Traceability, positioning T-Systems as a single partner across the whole Catena-X journey. The capability is already in use, with T-Systems supporting Ford in connecting more than 70 suppliers worldwide to Catena-X.

Exchanging a certificate through Catena-X is only the first step. For automotive suppliers managing growing certificate portfolios, the real work lies in maintaining certificates across sites and business partners, monitoring expiry dates, tracking what has been published and acting on OEM responses. Connect & Integrate from T-Systems is evolving from a certificate exchange solution into an enterprise-ready certificate control system: a central cockpit for inventory and lifecycle activities, dedicated certificate and site views, a consolidated view of partner responses, site information drawn from Cofinity-X, and detailed technical logs when auditing is required. Combined with AI-assisted preparation already in production across hundreds of customers, it creates one connected journey from preparing certificate data to controlling what happens across the entire certificate lifecycle.

Connect & Integrate brings the T-Systems AI power within the solution to support organizations scale up and become efficient in their business workflows within Catena-X. The cross-use-case AI layer sits at the intersection of data preparation and exchange as a business enabler directly within the workflows.

In November 2025, the first peer-to-peer dataspace transaction between Korea and Europe was completed, with L&F (Korea) sharing product carbon footprint data with the automotive division of a major European Tier 1. Orchestrated by Prof. Chaisung Lim of Konkuk University and enabled by T-Systems' Dataspace-as-a-Service, the exchange ran on the Eclipse Tractus-X stack with the IDSA protocol and Gaia-X trust framework — the same standards underpinning Catena-X. The transaction proves that sovereign, governed data sharing can now travel across regions and regulatory environments without centralising data or surrendering control. Beyond secure, trusted file transfer, it points to a strategic foundation for AI-ready data and new value-creation scenarios, including controlled collaboration across ecosystems and even between competitors.

Dieser Artikel beleuchtet den Übergang von Catena‑X (CX) in Nordamerika von Pilotinitiativen hin zu einer breiten Anwendung in der Automobilindustrie. Er positioniert CX als dezentrales Datenökosystem – ein „Internet für Daten“ –, das zentrale Herausforderungen wie Qualitätsmanagement, Nachhaltigkeits-Compliance und Batteriepass-Berichterstattung adressiert. Basierend auf Erkenntnissen aus der AIAG Catena‑X Konferenz und dem Supplier Onboarding Day in Detroit wird hervorgehoben, dass digitale Transformation und KI-Initiativen im Kern Datenherausforderungen sind, die häufig durch Fragmentierung über Organisationen und Lieferketten hinweg erschwert werden. Catena‑X bietet hierfür einen praxisnahen, geschäftsorientierten Ansatz, der vertrauenswürdige Dateninfrastruktur, einsatzbereite Anwendungsfälle sowie ein skalierbares Onboarding-Modell für Zulieferer kombiniert. Die Erfahrungen von Branchenführern zeigen, wie CX die Time-to-Value beschleunigt und Unternehmen befähigt, fragmentierte Daten in interoperable, vertrauenswürdige Datenflüsse zu transformieren – eine wesentliche Grundlage für generative KI, digitale Zwillinge und zukünftige digitale Geschäftsmodelle.

Die weltweit führende Industriemesse öffnet vom 20. bis 24. April in Hannover wieder ihre Tore. Unter dem Leitthema „Industrial Transformation“ präsentieren Unternehmen neueste Entwicklungen aus KI, Automatisierung, Energie und Digitalisierung. Wir sind in diesem Jahr auf der Hannover Messe vertreten mit Tim Höttges, Ferri, Elke Anderl und vielen Kolleginnen und Kollegen an Partnerständen.

T-Systems’ Connect & Integrate solution is now officially Catena-X-certified for the Traceability use case under the latest Saturn release. This certification expands T-Systems’ growing portfolio of Catena-X capabilities and reinforces its role in enabling secure, interoperable data exchange across automotive supply chains. By supporting traceability, quality processes, and collaboration through standardized dataspaces, T-Systems helps companies gain transparency across complex value chains, improve compliance, and respond faster to supply chain disruptions while maintaining full data sovereignty within the Catena-X ecosystem.

T‑Systems und IPOINT bieten eine ganzheitliche Lösung zur Nachverfolgung des CO₂-Fußabdrucks in der Automobilindustrie. Durch die Kombination der IPOINT‑Nachhaltigkeitssoftware mit dem Zugang zum Catena‑X‑Datenökosystem von T‑Systems ermöglicht die Lösung transparente Emissionsdaten entlang der gesamten Lieferkette und unterstützt Unternehmen bei der CSRD‑konformen Berichterstattung sowie der Reduzierung von Umweltwirkungen.

Flex partnered with T-Systems to migrate ECU data exchange to Catena-X, enabling secure, multiregional, real-time validation across global production sites. Using T-Systems’ Connect & Integrate solution, Flex achieved end-to-end integration, API and Cofinity-X interface testing, and a fully validated production setup. This scalable dataspace foundation now supports future use cases including Product Carbon Footprint, Certificate Management, Battery Pass, and global traceability, while maintaining full data sovereignty.