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A4BLUE | Adaptive Automation in Assembly For BLUE collar workers satisfaction in Evolvable context

01-10-2016

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30-09-2019

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Added value - impact - value proposition
Result items:
Collaborative assembly in a fenceless environment (IK4-TEKNIKER)
Collaborative assembly in a fenceless environment (IK4-TEKNIKER)

Adaptation to human variation is boosted, reducing work requirements and worker’s physical demands without incrementing mental and cognitive workload. Additionally, safety and trust in collaborative workplaces are risen while improving usability and human satisfaction. Reconfigurability and flexibility are also improved, as well as efficiency due to the reduction of displacements.

Complex, manual hydraulic system assembly (AIRBUS)
Complex, manual hydraulic system assembly (AIRBUS)

The goals for this use case include assembly time reduction, minimization of errors, and increase of efficiency, productivity and quality. What is more, with AR training and learn-by-doing method adoption, productivity of newcomers is also increased. Finally, a full quality assurance approach and traceability for supervision is enabled.

Final assembly of electric vehicles (RWTH Aachen University)
Final assembly of electric vehicles (RWTH Aachen University)

Improved technician satisfaction has been noted, as well as reduced process times and improved process efficiency with reduced errors. Moreover, the assembly process has benefited from better ergonomics and shorter waste time.

Landing gear retraction actuator assembly: Manual deburring operation | Assembly process (CESA)
Landing gear retraction actuator assembly: Manual deburring operation | Assembly process (CESA)

In the deburring process, manual labor is reduced, resulting in improved ergonomic and safety conditions. Moreover, process variability is reduced while quality and productivity, increased. In the assembly process, training time has been reduced with the AR solution and access to centralized documentation is faster, with greater transparency and ease of use while its maintenance costs have been reduced.

Factory2Fit | Empowering and participatory adaptation of factory automation to fit for workers

01-10-2016

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30-09-2019

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Added value - impact - value proposition
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Continental Pilot - Task Distribution Engine - Multi-criteria dynamic task prioritization and scheduling
Continental Pilot - Task Distribution Engine - Multi-criteria dynamic task prioritization and scheduling

TDE offers the generation of optimized production plans while the waiting time for the high-priority tasks has been reduced. Moreover, workplace is more user-friendly, and supervisors have a detailed overview of the running and planned work.

Continental Pilot: Participatory Design Tool
Continental Pilot: Participatory Design Tool

The method selection tool can also be used by non-experts as there is no need of vast know-how for the utilization of the offered tool. Therefore, the layman can easily select the right method out of a wide range. Codesign itself strengthens the companies as the workers can include their tacit knowledge into the workplace - or work process design and therefore have a higher commitment to their job once their ideas are implemented.

Prima Power Pilot - Hands-on pre-training in a virtual environment
Prima Power Pilot - Hands-on pre-training in a virtual environment

With the proposed solution, online training can be scheduled optimally, shortening training time. Moreover, training supports understanding and dealing with exceptional situations such as disturbances in production. Increased productivity and job satisfaction are expected, lowering the threshold of operators to start using the manufacturing line independently.

Prima Power Pilot - Social Media Platform - Engaging worker participation and knowledge sharing
Prima Power Pilot - Social Media Platform - Engaging worker participation and knowledge sharing

SoMeP emphasizes in improving collaboration and communication between technicians and promotes knowledge sharing, and practices. In the long-term SoMeP can be used both as a communication channel and information exchange hub, but also as a valuable knowledge repository as well as an educational system.

Prima Power Pilot - Worker Feedback Dashboard - Empowering feedback on work well-being and achievements
Prima Power Pilot - Worker Feedback Dashboard - Empowering feedback on work well-being and achievements

The proposed solution aims at raising spirits at work, by helping employees recognize their strengths as well as their development needs. In the long term, the application can assist employees to develop their working habits.

UTC Pilot - AR Assembly Guidance (ARAG) Solution - supporting workers in procedural tasks
UTC Pilot - AR Assembly Guidance (ARAG) Solution - supporting workers in procedural tasks

The ARAG solution reduces the cognitive load, and increases the technician’s satisfaction, while the precise guidance assures optimality and correctness in task execution. Furthermore, with the proposed solution training time is minimized as well as inspection by experts, also reducing manufacturing times and maximizing resource utilization.

UTC Pilot: On-the-job Learning
UTC Pilot: On-the-job Learning

With the proposed solution, access to expert knowledge is granted to anyone who is registered to the platform. What is more, supervisors are able to assign training courses to specific technicians for improving their skills.

HUMAN | HUman MANufacturing

01-10-2016

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30-09-2019

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Added value - impact - value proposition
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AIRBUS Pilot: Short-term physical and mental support
AIRBUS Pilot: Short-term physical and mental support

As a result of the project, Airbus DS will be able to reduce the time to market of new aircraft and aircraft systems significantly, due to the important improvements in ergonomic and interactive workplaces, helping to increase the flexibility and pliability of the different production lines.

COMAU Pilot: Workplace optimization and operator mental support
COMAU Pilot: Workplace optimization and operator mental support

Thanks to the use of HUMAN technology, COMAU assembly lines are more flexible to the anthropometric, physical and cognitive needs of the workers, and hence to the cognitive and physical requirements of variable operations of variable orders. This will reduce the setup and production times.

ROYO use case - short term physical and mental support
ROYO use case - short term physical and mental support

Through the solutions of HUMAN, it will be possible to process the production in smaller batches increasing the adaptability of each production line to all workers. Furthermore, HUMAN will enable ROYO to increase flexibility and adaptability in every production line at the shop floor, based on the ability to manage/predict their own effort during the shift avoiding pains beforehand, and moreover to eliminate waste and reduce errors and stress.

DIMOFAC | Digital Intelligent MOdular FACtories

01-10-2019

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31-03-2024

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Business model aspects
Added value - impact - value proposition
Comment:

DIMOFAC solution and underlying methodology supports the usage of standardised plug-and-produce modules (both hardware/ machines and software systems) to reduce configuration time, reduce wastage of resources and improve productivity

COROMA | Cognitively enhanced robot for flexible manufacturing of metal and composite parts

01-10-2016

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30-09-2019

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Business model aspects
Business models
Business model aspects of digital platform deployment
Comment:

A results-oriented approach driven by commercial offers with market tension for each of the cases analysed has been adopted. These offers are very close to industrial offers.

Three main cases have been presented, which are the result of a Exploitation Plan selection process. These cases integrate a technical and economic dimension with different levels of detail:

  • Case 1: Metal part Grinding based on ACITURRI demonstrator
  • Case 2 : Industrial Case FROM BENETEAU DEMONSTRATOR, by Gébé 2
  • Case 3 : Chatter Detection System, by Europe Technologies

Apart from these three main cases, 2 complementary ones have been identified, but developed to a lesser extent:

  • Case 4: Robotic Mobile Fixture
  • Case 5: Scene Understanding System

vf-OS | Virtual Factory Open Operating System

01-10-2016

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31-10-2019

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Business model aspects
Business ecosystems
Business ecosystems associated to digital platforms
Comment: The Open vf-OS Platform, includes a multi-sided application marketplace that aims to become the Apps Store for the manufacturing industry. The app store and the development studio empower the crosselling of solutions that a company has developed to solve their problems to other companies in the same sector. Developers will engage on this business digital model. Open vf-OS Platform ecosystem is composed of developers/technical providers, manufacturing users, manufacturing providers and service providers. Software Developers can develop and upload to the vf-OS marketplace device drivers and API Connectors for legacy platforms and services

DigiPrime | Digital Platform for Circular Economy in Cross-sectorial Sustainable Value Networks

01-01-2020

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31-12-2023

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Business model aspects
Business models
Business model aspects of digital platform deployment
Comment:

DigiPrime is focused on the development of a circular economy digital platform that enables the creation of circular business models based on the data-enhanced recovery and reuse of functions and materials. A federated model of digital platforms for cross-sector business in the circular economy will be validated through cross-sectoral pilots and use cases in multiple industries including automotive, renewable energy, electronics, textile, and construction. The platform will help overcome current information asymmetry among value-chain stakeholders, thus contributing to unlock new circular business models based on the data-enhanced recovery and re-use of functions and materials from high value-added post-use products across manufacturing sectors. Through deploying a multi-node federation structure that is replicable on different, existing and prospective sectorial platform instances, DigiPrime supports the future systematic creation of cross-sectorial circular value-chains for the remanufacturing and re-use of high added-value components (i.e. batteries, composite and techno-polymer parts, textile components, and mechatronics / electronics).

DigiPrime develops a multi-sided platform pursuing the goal that all relevant actors of circular economy scenarios - i.e. Products and materials manufacturers, de-manufacturers, remanufacturers, material recyclers, Consultancy, Research and Innovation centres and ICT providers are placed in a common space thereby facilitating contact between two or more sides that would otherwise be unlikely to interact. The platform facilitates transactions (data and services) among those actors by actually reducing transaction costs: that’s the real value DigiPrime business model relies on. In fact, the platform provides a convenient way of matching the different sides of an
interaction (e.g. search or recommendation function), a virtual space to interact, a code of conduct, instruments that increase transparency and trust (i.e. comprehensive information, feedbacks, Material flow monitoring and aggregated system-oriented KPIs, Barriers Identification and legislation support, Circular Innovation Hubs integration, De-and remanufacturing oriented product information formalization, Reverse Logistics and value-chain integration, Demand and supply forecasting, Circular production planning and control, Material characterization and certification), methods of secure transaction, etc. to which both sides agree.

Moreover, the concept and availability of federated agile business collaboration platforms for the circular economy is at the core of the DigiPrime vision. The proposed federated platform model will lead to disruption and business benefits in all the above areas of circular economy impact. Unlike platform monopolies, federated platforms offer diversity and demand-led development in a wide range of industry sectors, yet they all adopt a common architecture, standards and core technologies to facilitate interoperability and economies of scale.

In their simplest shape, existing online platforms do not intervene in the transaction (still guaranteeing its correct execution), except by asking for a fee from one or multiple sides of the transaction in order to make profit. Those kind of platforms do not take control over the object of the transaction, nor on the transaction price. Considering preliminary investigations performed, the heterogeneous variety of requirements DigiPrime wants to address requires a more complex approach. For this reason, our platform needs to adopt a hybrid business model, choosing to act as a platform operator mediating between different market participants in one area of activity and as something like a distributor in another. Hybrid value creation is defined as the innovation strategy of generating additional value by innovatively combining products, data and services. To support such a vision, we currently foreseen a model where a permissioned network of actors can be created on top of the platform. To be in the network each actor will pay a minimal annual fee. Then each actor might earn incomes by selling products, data and services on the platform and/or need to pay additional fees once consuming/acquiring products, data and services.

To further define the business model of the DigiPrime platform, the project has started to define key elements of the Platform Design ToolKit (https://platformdesigntoolkit.com/), a tool inspired initially by the business model canvas, but extended with a set of tools especially thought for Platforms with several actors and with a distributed value generation. In the following only the Ecosystem mapping canvas and the final Business Canvas are reported for page limits; the overall canvas will be used as first reference for the business model generation and a key guideline for implementations, so to have always a clear vision shared among all the consortium partners.

Result items:
Platform business model for driving exploitation strategies
Platform business model for driving exploitation strategies

Go-DIP | MANAGING DIGITAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN MANUFACTURING SMES DIGITALIZATION PROCESSES

01-04-2021

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30-04-2022

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Business model aspects
Data ownership - data governance
Result items:
Data-Driven Innovation and Exploitation - Workshop
Data-Driven Innovation and Exploitation - Workshop
Design Option Paper
Design Option Paper
Legal Aspects of Digital IP and Data Management - Workshop
Legal Aspects of Digital IP and Data Management - Workshop
Software IP and Data Agreements - Workshop
Software IP and Data Agreements - Workshop
Software development and ownership model
Result items:
Data-Driven Innovation and Exploitation - Workshop
Data-Driven Innovation and Exploitation - Workshop
Legal Aspects of Digital IP and Data Management - Workshop
Legal Aspects of Digital IP and Data Management - Workshop
Software IP and Data Agreements - Workshop
Software IP and Data Agreements - Workshop

ICP4Life | An Integrated Collaborative Platform for Managing the Product-Service Engineering Lifecycle

01-01-2015

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31-12-2018

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Added value - impact - value proposition
Comment: ICP4LIFE platform provides added value in the design and engineering of PSS. The developed services, that are also developed in ICP4LIFE and used to validate the platform, provide added value on quality assurance, monitoring, data analytics, prediction....
Business models
Business model aspects of digital platform deployment
Comment: In one hand, the services are somehow independent and can be exploited by the owners. On the other, the platform: The business model is under development and there are several approaches. A CANVAS model is under development-.

BEinCPPS | Business Experiments in Cyber Physical Production Systems

11-01-2015

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31-10-2018

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Software development and ownership model
Result items:
Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality
Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality
All BEinCPPS components used in the Whirlpool demonstrator are open source software. Site-specific hardware components have been developed and are owned by Whirlpool. Solution-specific software components are proprietary software co-owned by the BEinCPPS partners involved in the demonstrator. All models and data is owned exclusively by Whirlpool.
Business models
Business model aspects of digital platform deployment
Result items:
Rhône-Alpes Champion: The Smart Mold
Rhône-Alpes Champion: The Smart Mold

Fortissimo 2 | Factories of the Future Resources, Technology, Infrastructure and Services for Simulation and Modelling 2

11-01-2015

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31-12-2018

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Business model aspects
Software development and ownership model
Proprietary software
Result items:
Advanced, cloud-based HPC simulation in the foundry business
Advanced, cloud-based HPC simulation in the foundry business
Cloud-based-HPC optimisation of manufacturing processes
Cloud-based-HPC optimisation of manufacturing processes
HPC-based design of non-circular gears
HPC-based design of non-circular gears
Near Real-time Analysis of Airframe Certification Test Data
Near Real-time Analysis of Airframe Certification Test Data
Optimising gas and flame detector layouts in hazardous manufacturing and production plants
Optimising gas and flame detector layouts in hazardous manufacturing and production plants
Open source
Result items:
HPC based high-resolution modelling of magnets
HPC based high-resolution modelling of magnets
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