Lasers4MaaS platform and database

Presentation slides delivered by Christoph Nützel (CTO DACH, Futurice) at the Lasers4MaaS Online Workshop on Laser-Production-as-a-Service (2 July 2026), covering the architecture of the Lasers4MaaS digital platform and database. The talk frames the two problems the platform addresses — the Capital Trap of rigid machine ownership and the Physicality Gap where identical digital configurations yield different physical results across laser cells — and presents the three-layer interoperability framework (micro: hardware-agnostic execution via Dynamic Beam Shaping; meso: data-driven Reduced-Order Models predicting weld-pool geometry at >97% accuracy; macro: automated ESPR compliance through Digital Product Passports). It details the decoupled platform core (Process Selector & Optimizer, Process Controller Code Generator, Sustainability & Cost Evaluator), the data architecture for sovereign multi-tenancy (PostgreSQL with organisation-level isolation, NATS JetStream telemetry), and advanced capabilities including AR remote assistance (Godot/LiveKit) and a sovereign EU GenAI layer. The platform is built for true European digital sovereignty — open-source stack, no US-hyperscaler lock-in — with a roadmap toward a renewable-aware Sovereign Industrial Grid.