Cloudification of Production Engineering for Predictive Digital Manufacturing
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is essential for the digitalization of the manufacturing sector; notwithstanding, less than 25% of the manufacturing companies in Europe profit from ICT-enabled solutions. In order to democratically boost the competitiveness of the European manufacturers (especially Small and Medium-sized Enterprises - SMEs), innovative solutions need to consider technological and commercial scalability from the beginning.
From this perspective, the cloudification of services has become the ideal enabler in the manufacturing digitalization. Successful European initiatives such us CloudFlow, cloudSME or Fortissimo have demonstrated the benefits of cloudification for engineering services, by means of combining HPC resources, computational tools, and cloud computing platforms.
Manufacturing SMEs are empowered to compute and solve problems that cannot be tackled without cloud and HPC technology, making them more competitive by reducing development times for innovative product with better performance.
The results of these initiatives are fostering the engineering and to some extend the prototyping processes within the manufacturing workflow; however, monitoring and optimizing production processes have not yet greatly benefited from an integrated information workflow and simulation loop based on on-line factory data.
The core partners of CloudFlow (eu-cloudflow.eu) and cloudSME (cloudsme.eu) are joining forces to leverage factory data with cloud-based engineering tools:
- paving the way toward manufacturing analytics,
- enriching the manufacturing engineering process with on-line data, and
- simulating and optimizing the production process with the vision to support it in real-time.
The consolidated platform between CloudFlow and cloudSME with extended capabilities to process factory data is going to be accessed through a central interface, enabling the stakeholders to interact, and collaborate.
Web resources: |
https://www.cloudifacturing.eu/
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/211582/factsheet/en |
Start date: | 01-10-2017 |
End date: | 31-03-2021 |
Total budget - Public funding: | 9 712 983,00 Euro - 8 712 521,00 Euro |
Call topic: | ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs (I4MS) (FoF.2017.12) |
Twitter: | @CloudiFacturing |
Original description
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is essential for the digitalization of the manufacturing sector; notwithstanding, less than 25% of the manufacturing companies in Europe profit from ICT-enabled solutions. In order to democratically boost the competitiveness of the European manufacturers (especially Small and Medium-sized Enterprises - SMEs), innovative solutions need to consider technological and commercial scalability from the beginning. From this perspective, the cloudification of services has become the ideal enabler in the manufacturing digitalization. Successful European initiatives such us CloudFlow, cloudSME or Fortissimo have demonstrated the benefits of cloudification for engineering services, by means of combining HPC resources, computational tools, and cloud computing platforms. Manufacturing SMEs are empowered to compute and solve problems that cannot be tackled without cloud and HPC technology, making them more competitive by reducing development times for innovative product with better performance. The results of these initiatives are fostering the engineering and to some extend the prototyping processes within the manufacturing workflow; however, monitoring and optimizing production processes have not yet greatly benefited from an integrated information workflow and simulation loop based on on-line factory data.The core partners of CloudFlow (eu-cloudflow.eu) and cloudSME (cloudsme.eu) are joining forces to leverage factory data with cloud-based engineering tools:
a) paving the way toward manufacturing analytics,
b) enriching the manufacturing engineering process with on-line data, and
c) simulating and optimizing the production process with the vision to support it in real-time.
The consolidated platform between CloudFlow and cloudSME with extended capabilities to process factory data is going to be accessed through a central interface, enabling the stakeholders to interact, and collaborate.
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More efficient business processes
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The cloud-based optimisation of lamination oven’s configuration will lead to the following significant impacts: saving in energy consumption will result in saving of 18,000 kWh a year (short-term) and it will reach 27,000 kWh a year (medium-term). These figures can be multiplied by three in the long term because EndeF is going to build two new ovens. EndeF will drop CO2 emissions by 4,500 kg CO2eq and by 6750 kg CO2eq a year (short- and medium-term).
Hydal, as end user, will benefit from optimized process of water quenching by saving energy and scrap material and by having shorter turnover time as well. Expected economic impact is estimated 100 K€ a year on energy savings alone. Expected economic impact is estimated on 500 000 Euros on in turnover increase in first year after the experiment. This value will rise to the 2 million of euro after 5 years from the experiment.
Increase in Employment
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Optimize production processes and producibility using Cloud/HPC-based modelling and simulation, leveraging online factury data and advanced data analytics, thus contributing to the competitiveness and resource efficiency of manufacturing SMEs.
Manufacturing SMEs are empowered to compute and solve problems that cannot be tackled without Cloud and HPC technology, making them more competitive by reducing development times for innovative products with better performance.
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CloudiFacturing will extend the field of action of the technology developed in CloudFlow and CloudSME from the product development process to the production process, in order to leverage factory data with analytics algorithms and simulation tools
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| FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Coördinator)
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| FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT (Coördinator)
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| ALMA MATER STUDIORUM-UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA
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| BAKONY ELEKTRONIKA VILLAMOSIPARI GYARTO, SZOLGALTATO KORLATOLT FELELOSSEGU TARSASAG
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| Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI)
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