High Pressure Die Casting (HPDC) of light alloys and Plastic Injection Molding (PIM) are two of the most representative large-scale production-line in manufacturing field, which are strategic for the EU-industry largely dominated by SMEs. Due to the high number of process variables involved and to the non-sinchronisation of the process control units, HPDC and PIM are most "defect-generating" and "energy-consumption" processes in EU industry. In both, sustainability issue imposes that machines/systems are able to efficiently and ecologically support the production with higher quality, faster delivery times, and shorter times between successive generations of products.
The MUSIC project is strongly aimed at leading EU-HPDC/PIM factories to cost-based competitive advantage through the necessary transition to a demand-driven industry with lower waste generation, efficiency, robustness and minimum energy consumption. The development and integration of a completely new ICT tool, based on innovative Control and Cognitive system linked to real time monitoring, that allow an active control of quality, avoiding the presence of defects or over-cost by directly acting on the process-machine variables optimization or equipment boundary conditions.
The Intelligent Manufacturing approach will work at machine-mold project level to optimise/adapt the production of the specific product and can be extended at factory level to select/plan the appropriated production line. The sensors calibration and quality control of measurements will be the pre-requisite of Intelligent Sensor Network to monitor the real-time production and specific focus will be also devoted to Standardization issues.
The challenge of MUSIC is to transform a production-rate-dominated manufacturing field into a quality/efficiency-driven and integration-oriented one to exploit the enormous (and still underestimated) potential of HPDC/PIM through collaborative research and technological development, along the value chain.
| Web resources: |
http://music.eucoord.com/
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/314145 |
| Start date: | 01-09-2012 |
| End date: | 31-08-2016 |
| Total budget - Public funding: | 9 302 073,00 Euro - 6 135 000,00 Euro |
Original description
High Pressure Die Casting (HPDC) of light alloys and Plastic Injection Molding (PIM) are two of the most representative large-scale production-line in manufacturing field, which are strategic for the EU-industry largely dominated by SMEs. Due to the high number of process variables involved and to the non-sinchronisation of the process control units, HPDC and PIM are most "defect-generating" and "energy-consumption" processes in EU industry. In both, sustainability issue imposes that machines/systems are able to efficiently and ecologically support the production with higher quality, faster delivery times, and shorter times between successive generations of products. The MUSIC is strongly aimed at leading EU-HPDC/PIM factories to cost-based competitive advantage through the necessary transition to a demand-driven industry with lower waste generation, efficiency, robustness and minimum energy consumption. The development and integration of a completely new ICT tool, based on innovative Control and Cognitive system linked to real time monitoring, that allow an active control of quality, avoiding the presence of defects or over-cost by directly acting on the process-machine variables optimization or equipment boundary conditions. The Intelligent Manufacturing approach will work at machine-mold project level to optimise/adapt the production of the specific product and can be extended at factory level to select/plan the appropriated production line. The sensors calibration and quality control of measurements will be the pre-requisite of Intelligent Sensor Network to monitor the real-time production and specific focus will be also devoted to Standardization issues. The challenge of MUSIC is to transform a production-rate-dominated manufacturing field into a quality/efficiency-driven and integration-oriented one to exploit the enormous (and still underestimated) potential of HPDC/PIM through collaborative research and technological development, along the value chain.Status
CLOCall topic
FoF-ICT-2011.7.1Update Date
27-10-2022
Result of the MUSIC project is a new starndard of Aluminium and aluminium alloys — Classification of Defects and Imperfections in High Pressure, Low Pressure and Gravity Die Cast Products, CEN, Brussels (2014).
Next future development and application is the automatic and intelligent retrofit excluding the current communication limits.
A fundamental innovative characteristic of digital twin platform, called Smart Prod ACTIVE, is the predictive Quality model integrating multi-resolution and multi-variate process data in a collaborative way to support the decision making process by Operator (Quality oriented), Production manager (Efficiency oriented - OEE) and Business manager (Cost-oriented)
The equipment and devices are sensorized to be deeper monitored
Manufacturing cell is monitored with data acquisition from any level.
All different production lines and plants can be monitored wiht the same platform because it is felxible and scalable.
Data-Driven Digital Twin enables the collaboration between OEM and Suppliers
web-based platform and the access management is assential to collaborative platform sharing production data
All stages of production line are connecteted to the Data-Driven Digital Twin platform
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| EnginSoft SpA (Coördinator)
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| ASSOMET SERVIZI S.R.L.
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| Audi AG
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| BARALDI SRL
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| ELECTRONICS GMBH VERTRIEB ELEKTRONISCHER GERATE
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| FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
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| FUNDACIO EURECAT
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| FUNDACIO PRIVADA ASCAMM
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| Fraunhofer IFAM - Adhesive Bonding and Surfaces
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| Fundación Tekniker
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| HOCHSCHULE AALEN - TECHNIK UND WIRTSCHAFT
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| MAGMA GIESSEREITECHNOLOGIE GMBH
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| MAIER, S.Coop.
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| MOTUL SA
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| OSKAR FRECH GMBH CO KG
The data-driven digital twin in production line is a solution to measure, analyze and react oriented to zero defect manufacturing and to the maximization of the OEE improving the sustainability and profit of factory of future.
The application of Smart Prod ACTIVE system has been demonstrated and validated at foundry level. In the frame of HPDC production process, Operator and Process manager take advantage by adopting a centralized remote control system supporting process monitoring and quality prediction in real time. The decision is supported by cause-effect correlations, and proper reactions suggested by a continuously updated meta-model. Re-usability and flexibility of the Smart Prod ACTIVE system also allow agile re-start in case of small batches production
The same aproach is valid of any multi-stages production chain to produce part for all industrial sectors.