Frank Thelen

Investor Frank Thelen on Unified Namespace – New data standard for the industry with UMH

The Cologne-based start-up United Manufacturing Hub has set itself the goal of establishing a new data standard in the industry. The company is supported by Frank Thelen’s venture capital fund Freigeist and the existing investor DnA Ventures. The open source platform they have developed enables engineers to seamlessly integrate all data sources in the factory to promote data-driven, more efficient and more sustainable production. The Unified Namespace plays a central role in the United Manufacturing Hub concept. It is described as a kind of central data hub or message broker through which all work orders, data points and temperatures within a factory are routed. This architecture enables uniform access to data from different sources, which forms the basis for standardized data communication. The Unified Namespace enables the separation and targeted routing of data, making it an important tool for integrating and analyzing production data. United Manufacturing Hub uses this approach to enable efficient and comprehensive use of data in production environments, creating the basis for data-driven decisions and process optimization United Manufacturing Hub was founded in 2021 by Jeremy Theocharis, Alexander Krüger and Christian Proch. The team has set itself the goal of making the best IT and OT tools accessible to engineers and providing a basis for the exchange of knowledge and experience. To date, the company has worked at over 50 customer locations and is active on six continents. With the seed funding from Freigeist and the support of DnA Ventures, the company plans to further expand its product and engineering team to meet the growing needs of large enterprises. In addition, investments are being made in the rapidly growing community around the United Manufacturing Hub, which already comprises more than 2,000 developers and engineers.