SAFIRE | Cloud-based Situational Analysis for Factories providing Real-time Reconfiguration Services

Summary

The primary objective of the SAFIRE project is to develop cloud-based analytics and reconfiguration capabilities that provide:

  • Both reactive and predictive reconfiguration for both production systems and smart products
  • Flexible run-time reconfiguration decisions during production rather than pre-planned at production planning time
  • Real-time reconfiguration decisions for optimisation of performance and real-time production and product functions

The SAFIRE project targets two related technology challenges for smart factories that present new opportunities for improving production, products and services: Interconnected Systems of Production Systems (SoPS) within smart manufacturing environments where individual production systems and the SoPS as a whole have hardware and software requirements to be addressed to achieve specific business objectives such as scheduling, power consumption, throughput, and maintenance.

Connected Product Networks (CPNs) where networked smart products collect data, can be adapted in the field, and can deliver extended services to customers through optimisation of smart product performance parameters and customisation of products to environments, usage patterns and other dynamic factors. The advanced analytics and reconfiguration capabilities to be developed in SAFIRE will be based on mastering the big data challenges associated with manufacturing (sensor and process data), enterprise data and smart product data to provide advanced analytics that allow manufacturers to address production system behaviour forecasting and to establish optimisation methods that are integrated in the design and product chain.

The project will deliver big data analytic capabilities that meet real-time requirements so that dynamic run-time reconfiguration decisions are made during production time rather than pre-planned at production planning time.

More information & hyperlinks
Web resources: http://www.safire-factories.org
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/723634
Start date: 01-10-2016
End date: 30-09-2019
Total budget - Public funding: 3 137 076,00 Euro - 3 137 076,00 Euro
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Original description

In traditional models of manufacturing, the information flow from product design, over production processes, to the manufactured product has been strictly unidirectional. The production equipment “blindly” executes tasks that have no direct relationship to the concepts that are present in the original design models and the product is used with little or no feedback concerning product use patterns. In order to enhance the manufacturability of products and at the same time the flexibility of both factory production systems and modern products, both effective configurability and feedback to design and production is required to assure their highest efficiency.

The SAFIRE project will provide technology and infrastructure to enable Reconfiguration as a Service for dynamic smart factory systems and manufactured smart products that take advantage of cloud-based services and computing power to continually optimise the performance of manufacturing systems and products with respect to key performance characteristics including throughput, power consumption, utilisation, maintenance and other factors.

A key objective of the project is to develop cloud-based analytics and reconfiguration capabilities that extend the operating systems of smart factories with: 1) both reactive and predictive reconfiguration for production systems; 2) flexible run-time reconfiguration decisions during production rather than pre-planned at production planning time; 3) real-time reconfiguration decisions for optimisation of performance and real-time production functions. The advanced analytics and reconfiguration capabilities will be based on innovations in shared situational awareness and mastering the big data challenges associated with sensor, smart objects and process data from manufacturing, logistics and enterprise systems.

Status

CLOSED

Call topic

FOF-11-2016

Update Date

27-10-2022
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Comment: Contribution to open standards targeting security and Interoperability of production and product data SAFIRE ontology potential candidate for initial standardization submission for modelling correlation between information sources, products and situations
Comment: Methodology for reconfiguration and optimisation of products and factories based on predictive big-data analytics. Emphasizing security, privacy & trust based on situational awareness. The methodology will address technical and organizational issues for extension and introduction of tools/services for re-configuration and optimisation of factories / products.
Comment: Security, privacy & trust (SPT) based on situational awareness, based on: - Policy Enforcing Scheme - Distributed Reference Monitor (DRM) Functionalities: Encryption, Authorisation, Authentication, Monitoring, Auditing
Comment: IISF based access control framework to allow integration of additional external components into SAFIRE. OPC-UA plug-in for the data ingestion. External systems can ingest data into SAFIRE solutio by either using pre-developed plug-ins (e.g. OPC-UA) or by developing own plug-in modules
Comment: Data Ingestion module will contain a plug-in architecture to allow integration of various data-source (e.g. OPC-UA)
Comment: Next Generation Access Control (NGAC) based authorisation and authentication
Comment: NGAC based access control management IN SAFIRE solution
Comment: Each SAFIRE service will be developed as own docker container, to allow easy distribution and scalability of whole SAFIRE solution in the cloud
Comment: Docker based application packaging and deployment will beused in SAFIRE
Comment: Publish / Subscribe message system Apache Kafka will be used for communication in SAFIRE
Comment: Cloud based secure infrastructure for reconfiguration and optimisation. The envisaged SAFIRE infrastructure will be an add-on for an existing production system or next generation smart factory operating system, allowing to transform such production systems into advanced production systems capable of real-time reconfiguration and optimisation.
Comment: Each SAFIRE service will be developed as own docker container, to allow easy distribution and scalability of whole SAFIRE solution in the cloud
Comment: Emphasizing security, privacy & trust based on situational awareness.
Comment: Cloud based secure infrastructure for reconfiguration and optimisation. The envisaged SAFIRE infrastructure will be an add-on for an existing production system or next generation smart factory operating system, allowing to transform such production systems into advanced production systems capable of real-time reconfiguration and optimisation.