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...but if it's useless for industrial data, ...all that's left is: use it for crap
Well, its not useless - a cryptografic certificate that manufacturing instructions derived from a digital model had not been tampered would be one great asset for any industry 4.0 process (Imagine if any subcontractor would be able to produce a specific part in bulk, instead of being forced to talk in their specific CAD language and fear that the data is manipulated along the way to your disadvantage).
But since we are talking about standardization processes (I am pretty sure, the current PDX standard is actually just punch cards turned into XML by accident), this will likely take many years to come into production and will be the 19th competing standard protocol.