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

Summary

The European manufacturing industry faces new challenges, which are currently not addressed by today’s products and systems. Most of the products are still in essence simple in nature, with no capability for adapting to the consumers’ needs and no integrated methods exist for the holistic acquisition and processing of feedback information emanating from product-services. ICP4Life proposes an integrated, collaborative platform for the design, development and support of product-service systems for SMEs, equipment manufacturers and energy suppliers in order to maximize the impact in the European industry.

The proposed platform comprises of three main components:

  1. The first component demonstrates a collaborative web-based application for the creation and management of products and services by engineers and designers of multiple disciplines.
  2. The second component is a Product-Service configuration tool for customers, enabling the easy and intuitive formation of Products and Services. The same component will be used for managing product related data pertaining to the manufacturer, supplier and the customer.
  3. The third component will support the efficient, adaptive and responsive planning and decision making phases, for managing the dynamic operation of the plants and the supply chain.

All the components will be compatible with open standards, such as AutomationML, in order to make the most out of and accelerate the adoption by the European industry.

Two pilot cases are planned to be deployed in the context of demonstrating the added value of the ICP4Life developments:

  1. Equipment Manufacturer: This pilot case will be implemented for evaluating the components’ developments in the configuration of the requested manufacturing equipment. The requested services will deal with maintenance support, product evolution (SW updates) and monitoring of the energy consumption as well as performance of the equipment through web-based interfaces (using additional sensors).
  2. Energy Supplier: This pilot case will focus on the current needs of contemporary energy suppliers in Europe in terms of Product-Services. The main goal of this case is to investigate the potential of services in the Energy supplier industry and how time and cost related to processes can be reduced. Two different views of products will be used in this case; energy as a product service and energy related equipment (generation/ supply) as a product service.

The ICP4Life project will address the current needs of today’s manufacturers, providing faster design of modular equipment and components, the seamless collaboration of engineers across a wider network of companies as well as within a single company with disperse engineering offices and production sites and the reuse of knowledge regarding both products and processes for new projects or the configuration of existing lines. The ICP4Life consortium consists of highly skilled organizations to ensure the success of this project.

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Web resources: http://www.icp4life.eu/
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/636862
Start date: 01-01-2015
End date: 01-01-2019
Total budget - Public funding: 4 924 693,00 Euro - 4 924 693,00 Euro
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The European manufacturing industry faces new challenges, which are currently not addressed by today’s products and systems. Most of the products are still in essence ‘simple’ in nature, with no capability for adapting to the consumers’ needs and no integrated methods exist for the holistic acquisition and processing of feedback information emanating from product-services.
ICP4Life proposes an integrated, collaborative platform for the design, development and support of product-service systems for SMEs, equipment manufacturers and energy suppliers in order to maximize the impact in the European industry. The proposed platform comprises of three main components. The first component demonstrates a collaborative web-based application for the creation and management of products and services by engineers and designers of multiple disciplines. The second component is a Product-Service configuration tool for customers, enabling the easy and intuitive formation of Products and Services. The same component will be used for managing product related data pertaining to the manufacturer, supplier and the customer. The third component will support the efficient, adaptive and responsive planning and decision making phases, for managing the dynamic operation of the plants and the supply chain. All the components will be compatible with open standards, such as AutomationML, in order to make the most out of and accelerate the adoption by the European industry. The ICP4Life project will address the current needs of today’s manufacturers, providing faster design of modular equipment and components, the seamless collaboration of engineers across a wider network of companies as well as within a single company with disperse engineering offices and production sites and the reuse of knowledge regarding both products and processes for new projects or the configuration of existing lines. The ICP4Life consortium consists of highly skilled organizations to ensure the success of this project.

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CLOSED

Call topic

FoF-05-2014

Update Date

27-10-2022
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Comment: Services are provided according to standards (i.e OPC) but the ICP4LFIE platform and the PSS design are not configures according to any standard
Comment: Services associated to the manufacturing assets will permit an improvement of productivity, flexibility and precisión.
Comment: Services related with the utilizaton of artificial visión to control part quality are being developed in the project
Comment: Services associated with the product, mainly in the TAURON use case, will address this aspect
Comment: Data processing in the services is automatic with different algorythms. Data processing in the platform is manual and done by the user. Decisión is, in most cases, manual.
Comment: Several acquisition technologies depending on the service: From sensors, from PLC, CNC, vibration sensors, counters, artificial visión cameras....
Comment: Services related with predictive maintenance or vibration analysis
Comment: There is one DATA STORAGE (SQL, NoSQL, Mongo....) for the services and one KNOWLEDGE repository (semantic ontology) for the PLATFORM
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The platform provides a HMI/Dashboard/Screen permitting the user to configure his PSS. The goal is the validation of the concept (RIA) more than the fine tuning of screens

Comment: Windows + Chrome-Explorer-Modzilla
Comment: JavaScript with angular for frontends. Java for backends Python and Matlab for some subcomponents Python, C++, C# for the services...
Comment: ICP4LIFE PLANNER help on the mfg process of the PSS
Comment: Several communication technologies depending on the service: Ethernet, OPC, OPC UA
Comment: The components of the platform are connected to the knowledge repository via API and with other sub-components via function calls
Comment: The services work mainly with machine data while the platform uses all type of file extensions (dwg, pdf,..) and text.
Comment: The platform is based on a semantic database where products, sensors, services, patterns and instances are linked. Their fuctionalities, characteristics and models are also linked one with each other.
Comment: Platform is devided in several components: front ends, backends, repositories.... Frontend is a portal composed of several portlets in liferay. Backend is a webservice communicated with the frontend on REST using JSON
Comment: ICP4Life will permit and demonstrate the design of products (machines, molds...) adapted to the manufacturing user requirements using the CUSTOMIZER and DESIGNER. This involves also the suppliers of machine components. For example: INERTIA is a sensor provider participating in the Project. The integration of sensors in complex products (machines) in a seamless way is the approach of the DESIGNER component of the platform. This way; ICP4LIFE permits an easy and friendly integration of field devices (sensors) in the production line equipment (machines) in order to acquire data and provide new services
Result items:
I#Services: the ICP4Life Designer component focuses on the machine level, while integrating design process on sub-system level
Result items:
#Service, #Connectivity: Designer component will act as a connector among different domain engineers, including PSS top managers, to facilitate their communication, data management, decision making, etc. Furthermore, it will perform a link to different specific legacy CAX tools to circulate the information flow and data sharing or management. Finally, since the different development stages of a PSS solution/offer will have inevitable interrelationships, there are interactions between the Designer component and the others on the ICP4Life platform.
Comment: ICP4LIFE platform permits the symbiosis of equipment supplier and user, providing the input from the user in the configuration of the product-service by the supplier. The interaction amongst both companies is a key aspect of the project. Services permit the optimization of the productivity (both the manufacturing system supplier as well , the user of the manufacturing system) resilieance, and maintenance services offered by the manufacturing system supplier (Enterprise).
Result items:
#Service, #Connectivity: Designer component will act as a connector among different domain engineers, including PSS top managers, to facilitate their communication, data management, decision making, etc. Furthermore, it will perform a link to different specific legacy CAX tools to circulate the information flow and data sharing or management. Finally, since the different development stages of a PSS solution/offer will have inevitable interrelationships, there are interactions between the Designer component and the others on the ICP4Life platform.
Comment: Version from LUIS: ICP4LIfe concentrates on the design and optimization of product-service systems (machines, molds). These are the use cases to validate the platform. But the platform could be also used to design and engineer final products like household appliances (washing machines, fridges), toys or whatever other product.
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....
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-.
Comment: ICP4Life will permit and demonstrate the design of products (machines, molds...) adapted to the manufacturing user requirements using the CUSTOMIZER and DESIGNER. This involves also the suppliers of machine components. For example: INERTIA is a sensor provider participating in the Project. The integration of sensors in complex products (machines) in a seamless way is the approach of the DESIGNER component of the platform. This way; ICP4LIFE permits an easy and friendly integration of field devices (sensors) in the production line equipment (machines) in order to acquire data and provide new services
Result items:
I#Services: the ICP4Life Designer component focuses on the machine level, while integrating design process on sub-system level
Result items:
#Service, #Connectivity: Designer component will act as a connector among different domain engineers, including PSS top managers, to facilitate their communication, data management, decision making, etc. Furthermore, it will perform a link to different specific legacy CAX tools to circulate the information flow and data sharing or management. Finally, since the different development stages of a PSS solution/offer will have inevitable interrelationships, there are interactions between the Designer component and the others on the ICP4Life platform.
Comment: ICP4LIFE platform permits the symbiosis of equipment supplier and user, providing the input from the user in the configuration of the product-service by the supplier. The interaction amongst both companies is a key aspect of the project. Services permit the optimization of the productivity (both the manufacturing system supplier as well , the user of the manufacturing system) resilieance, and maintenance services offered by the manufacturing system supplier (Enterprise).
Result items:
#Service, #Connectivity: Designer component will act as a connector among different domain engineers, including PSS top managers, to facilitate their communication, data management, decision making, etc. Furthermore, it will perform a link to different specific legacy CAX tools to circulate the information flow and data sharing or management. Finally, since the different development stages of a PSS solution/offer will have inevitable interrelationships, there are interactions between the Designer component and the others on the ICP4Life platform.