MatliX Customer Workshop: Making Material Information Usable Along the Value Chain

Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2026 | 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Location: Matplus GmbH, Friedrichstraße 51, 42105 Wuppertal, Germany
Participants: Max. 12 persons (limited)
Target audience: Decision-makers, users and IT managers
Cost: Free of charge for our customers

Dear Sir or Madam,

valuable material data – painstakingly determined in laboratories and test facilities – is still frequently shared as PDF files and then stored in unstructured archives. Typical examples include:

• Sampling results for products
• Acceptance test certificates
• Laboratory data from external test labs
• Substance declarations and hazardous substance documentation

Distribution works – but once filed, this information is neither searchable nor usable by systems. It thus recedes from the organization’s active knowledge base and from the value-creation process, and is not available for optimizing products, processes and sustainability assessments.

From Distribution to Usability

For material information to be truly usable within a company, it must be available in digital, machine-readable form. Digitization at the point of origin – directly in laboratory, testing and ERP systems – is far more effective than retroactive capture from PDF archives. This requires reliable, standardized data exchange between all parties along the value chain.

MatliX: Pragmatic, Standardized Data Exchange

As part of a VDA working group, an industry-neutral, easy-to-use exchange format was developed that closes precisely this gap. The open specification is freely available on GitHub and enables direct, machine-readable exchange between ERP, PLM and laboratory systems.

Under the label MatliX – Material Lifecycle Information eXchange, we support our customers in practical implementation.

Your Benefits at a Glance

• Standardized & machine-readable – based on VDA 231-301 & DIN SPEC 9012
• Industry-neutral – applicable from automotive and aerospace to mechanical engineering
• Future-proof – extensible for DPP, PCF and REACH compliance
• Pragmatic – ready to use immediately, optionally connectable to data spaces such as Catena-X later

Workshop Agenda

Register Now

Secure your place – participation is limited to 12 persons to ensure intensive exchange.

Registration by email: [email protected]
Or by phone: +49 (0)202 29 78 97 80

We look forward to exchanging ideas with you and opening up new perspectives for digital material data exchange together.