A single, open interface for manufacturing data

i3X defines a vendor-agnostic API that works across manufacturing information platforms, eliminating the need to build and maintain custom integrations for every system.

Intelligence that is decoupled from systems

By preserving shared meaning and context at the interface layer, i3X allows analytics, AI, and applications to evolve independently of the underlying platforms that generate and store the data.

Long-term control over innovation and change

The result is not just interoperability, but reduced lock-in, lower switching costs, and the ability to adopt new capabilities without re-architecting the enterprise.

Why Manufacturing Intelligence Is Now a Business Risk

For the past decade, digital transformation in manufacturing has focused on visibility. More data. More connected systems. More dashboards. And it worked. Most manufacturers today are far more digitized than they were even a few years ago.
But visibility was never the end goal. Intelligence is.

As manufacturers move toward analytics, AI, and automated decision-making, a deeper issue becomes unavoidable. Operational data is spread across vendor platforms, interpreted differently by each system, and locked behind proprietary interfaces. Meaning is inconsistent. Context is fragmented. What humans once reconciled manually, intelligent systems cannot.

This is why many intelligence initiatives struggle to scale. Each new solution adds complexity and long-term dependency. The risk is no longer adopting new technology. It is losing the ability to adapt as technology continues to change.

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Positioning Statement

As manufacturers move toward analytics and AI, fragmented data access and proprietary APIs are becoming a strategic risk. The Industrial Information Interoperability eXchange (i3X) establishes a single, open, vendor-agnostic API that allows intelligence to scale above individual systems rather than being locked inside them. Download the full positioning statement to understand why i3X is becoming a critical foundation for future-proof, AI-ready manufacturing.

 

Meet the Working Group Behind i3X

The i3X working group brings together a cross-section of manufacturers, technology providers, system integrators, and industry leaders collaborating to define an open, vendor-agnostic API that enables scalable, future-proof manufacturing intelligence.

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Software Development Kit

The i3X Software Development Kit (SDK) provides developers with ready-to-use tools, libraries, and reference implementations that make it faster and easier to build, test, and deploy applications against the i3X API.