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MaaSAI

Architecture Environments

Architecture Environments

Section titled “Architecture Environments”

D5.1 organises MaaSAI into three operational environments. Together, they describe how the platform supports discovery, planning, negotiation, execution, monitoring, and secure data exchange across the ecosystem.

Functional architecture across cloud, fog, and edge

Simplified functional architecture extracted from MaaSAI deliverable D5.1.

Cloud MaaS Marketplace Environment

Section titled “Cloud MaaS Marketplace Environment”

This environment is the shared cloud entry point of MaaSAI. It supports onboarding, catalogue publication, provider discovery, recommendation, and structured collaboration between organisations.

Main solutions

Section titled “Main solutions”

Architectural characteristics

Section titled “Architectural characteristics”
  • Cloud-native and microservice-oriented deployment.
  • Dedicated APIs between components, with documented payloads and controlled interfaces.
  • Centralised security patterns such as authentication, authorisation, Single Sign-On, and token-based API access.
  • Dedicated persistence per component and monitored health endpoints for operational resilience.

MaaS Consumer Environment

Section titled “MaaS Consumer Environment”

This environment supports companies that consume manufacturing services. It connects enterprise systems, planning logic, negotiation automation, simulation, and trusted contracting before work is handed to providers.

Main solutions

Section titled “Main solutions”

Architectural characteristics

Section titled “Architectural characteristics”
  • Tight coupling with ERP and MES information through integration and edge storage services.
  • Planning and negotiation capabilities supported by consumer-side agents and simulation components.
  • Secure contracting and traceability through blockchain-enabled services.
  • Edge and fog processing to keep operational data close to the source while still interacting with cloud services.

MaaS Provider Environment

Section titled “MaaS Provider Environment”

This environment supports companies that offer manufacturing services. It combines execution planning, analytics, lifecycle and sustainability tooling, monitoring, and trusted data exposure toward the MaaSAI marketplace.

Main solutions

Section titled “Main solutions”

Architectural characteristics

Section titled “Architectural characteristics”
  • Strong interaction with shop-floor, planning, and monitoring data.
  • Support for analytics, simulation, digital twin design, and sustainability assessment.
  • Secure exposure of provider capabilities and contract-relevant information to the MaaSAI ecosystem.
  • Interoperable data flows across analytics, planning, monitoring, and collaboration services.