JOTNE CONNECT AS

Their core work

Jotne Connect is a Norwegian technology SME specializing in data interoperability and digital engineering platforms. They build software that enables complex product and manufacturing data to flow between different systems, tools, and organizations — a critical capability for digital twins, smart manufacturing, and cross-domain AI applications. Their core strength lies in standards-based data exchange (particularly ISO STEP/BIM standards), which they apply across manufacturing, construction, and environmental monitoring domains. They also developed an enterprise BIM digitization platform, indicating roots in building information modeling that expanded into broader industrial digitalization.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Jotne started in H2020 with additive manufacturing data workflows (CAxMan, 2015) and BIM platform development (Enterprise BIM, 2017), focusing on engineering data management for specific verticals. From 2019 onward, they pivoted decisively toward broader industrial digitalization — digital twins, IoT-connected factories, circular manufacturing, and distributed AI. Their most recent projects (DAIS, TREEADS) show a further expansion into AI trustworthiness and environmental applications, suggesting their interoperability expertise is becoming a horizontal capability applied across diverse domains.

Jotne is evolving from a manufacturing-focused data integration provider into a cross-domain interoperability specialist for AI and digital twin ecosystems, with growing interest in environmental applications.

How they like to work

Jotne operates almost exclusively as a consortium partner (6 of 7 projects), contributing specialized interoperability and data management components rather than leading entire research agendas. Their single coordination was a small SME Phase 1 feasibility study. With 239 unique partners across 28 countries, they maintain an exceptionally broad network for an SME of their size, indicating they are a sought-after specialist that different consortia bring in for their specific technical capabilities.

With 239 unique consortium partners spanning 28 countries, Jotne has built a remarkably wide European network for a small company. Their partnerships are spread across manufacturing, digital, and environmental sectors, suggesting they connect to diverse research and industry communities rather than being anchored to a single cluster.

What sets them apart

Jotne occupies a niche that few SMEs can claim: deep expertise in industrial data standards and interoperability, combined with hands-on experience applying it across manufacturing, construction, AI, and environmental domains. Their ability to make different systems talk to each other — whether it is CAD tools in additive manufacturing, IoT devices in connected factories, or AI components in distributed systems — makes them a versatile integration partner. For consortium builders, they solve the perennial problem of data silos between project partners and between different technology layers.

Highlights from their portfolio

• KYKLOS 4.0
  Their largest funded project (EUR 580K), addressing circular and flexible manufacturing with an ambitious scope covering personalization, marketplace design, and production orchestration.
• TREEADS
  A surprising cross-sector move — applying their data integration expertise to wildfire management and environmental restoration, their second-largest project at EUR 542K.
• Enterprise BIM
  Their only coordinated project, a Phase 1 SME instrument that reveals their commercial product ambitions in BIM digitization.