FiaD | Factory-in-a-day

Summary

Factory-in-a-day aims at improving the competitiveness of European manufacturing SMEs by removing the primary obstacle for robot automation; installation time and installation cost. The high costs result in payback periods, making the investment in robotized automation economically unattractive. Factory-in-a-day will reduce the installation time (and the related cost) from months to one single day. The project follows the steps of such an installation day.

  1. New standardized arms, mobile platforms, and hands are combined with 3D printed custom parts to be designed in a matter of hours from novel design templates.
  2. Robots are placed in an unaltered production location, where new self-calibration routines and a novel software framework allow effortless interconnection of robot components and existing machinery.
  3. For selected application domains (e.g. mould finishing and assembly) a set of novel learnable skills (cf. "Apps") allow rapid teaching of the production tasks.
  4. The robots collaborate safely with humans in a shared un-fenced workspace due to safe robot arms with dynamic obstacle avoidance, made possible by novel proximity-sensing skin and online path re-planning algorithms. Augmented reality lets the robots project their intended motion plans to inform the workers.
  5. Finally, Factory-in-a-day also innovates the organizational aspects of robot installation.

The project is driven by Europe’s top robotics researchers (e.g. TUD, KUL, TUM, Fraunhofer) and industry players (Philips, Universal Robotics, Siemens, Materialise). The second-largest temp agency Randstad and its participating client SMEs will test hybrid human-robot teams performing short-batch production work.

Together with novel certification procedures proposed in Factory-in-a-day and strong , Europe-wide dissemination targeted at manufacturing industry, the technological and organizational innovations are poised to radically change the robot automation sector.

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Web resources: http://www.factory-in-a-day.eu
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/609206
Start date: 01-10-2013
End date: 30-09-2017
Total budget - Public funding: 11 384 641,00 Euro - 7 968 232,00 Euro
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22-12-2024
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Large-scale integrating project
Economic sustainability
Comment:
Flexibility
Environmental sustainability
Material efficiency
Waste minimisation
Circular economy
Product life extension
Innovative re-use of equipment
Reducing the consumption of water and other process resources.
Social sustainability
Comment:
Increasing human achievements in manufacturing systems
Occupational safety and health
Information and communication technologies
IoT - Internet of Things
Human Machine Interfaces
Advanced and ubiquitous human machine interaction
Data spaces
Digital manufacturing platforms - data platforms
Advanced material processing technologies
High productivity and “self assembly” technologies development of conventional (joining, forming, machining) and new micro/nano-manufacturing processes
Methods for handling of parts, metrology and inspection
Mechatronics and robotics technologies
Control technologies
Intelligent machinery components, actuators and end-effectors
Comment:
Industrial robotics
Human-Robot Collaboration
Engineering tools
System modelling - digital twins, simulation
Knowledge-workers and operators
Human-Robot Collaboration
Manufacturing the products of the future
Customised products
Novel materials
Complex structures, geometries and scale
C MANUFACTURING
C10 Manufacture of food products
C13 Manufacture of textiles
C16 Manufacture of wood and of products of wood and cork, except furniture; manufacture of articles of straw and plaiting materials
C21 Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations
C26 Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products
C28 Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.