• Comment: Big data analytics in cloud environments to support manufacturing scenarios.
    • Comment: The Digital Factory Model (DFM) will provide an integrated representation of the intra-factory domain at machine-level, end-user-level, and process-level. The DFM model will be used to exploit data coming from machinery, sensors and production lines and will offer interoperability in communication by providing all these heterogeneous data in a common format. The DFM is re-used in the Decision Support System, in Simulation and in the Deep Learning Toolkit. The integration of information will enable better use of the data available in the physical layer of the factories to be made.
    • Comment:

      Requirements of modern production processes stress the need for greater agility and flexibility, for faster production cycles, increased productivity, less waste and more sustainable production. Human-machine interaction is put in the center, supporting the decision making process.

      Investigation of advanced HMIs for direct interaction with real-world objects. Consideration of mobile user interfaces that allow accessing crucial immediate information everywhere in the factory. Consideration will also be given to data gathering from ultra low power IoT devices such as wireless sensors where data can then be aggregated and visualised at an appropriate HMI interface. Where possible provision for self-powering these IoT devices using energy harvesting will be taken into account in order to avoid battery replacement. Flexible and dynamic data-driven solutions that can be adapted to different environments and needs.

    • Comment: Design a technical operating system for the support connected and interoperable factories with their stakeholders and for the optimisation of manufacturing and logistics processes.
    • Comment:

      A Simulation and Forecasting Toolkit analyses the production processes and required resources in an integrated way and extracts forecasts for possible failures. Also forecasting is provided in supply chain and logistics, especially in fill level monitoring of bins and boosts the waste management and recycling processes. Sustainable manufacturing will be assisted by a Decision Support System. The Marketplace will enable dynamic integration with actors in the supply chain.