Manufacturing is the driving force of Europe’s economy, contributing over €6,553 billion in GDP and providing more than 30 million jobs. A strong manufacturing sector is vital to European economic growth and stability but this sector is facing increasingly difficult challenges.
The economic crisis has decreased industry output by around 20%, while global competition is growing dramatically. Furthermore, new trends and paradigms like an increasing demand for sustainable manufacturing and mass customization are increasing. ICT is the key enabler for coping with these changes to push engineering and manufacturing excellence as driver for European success. LinkedDesign is intended to boost today’s engineers by providing an integrated, holistic view on data, persons and processes across the full product lifecycle as vital resource for the outstanding competitive design of novel products and manufacturing processes.
To achieve this goal the project will develop the Linked Engineering and mAnufacturing Platform (LEAP) as an integrated information system for manufacturing design that federates all relevant product lifecycle information, independent of its format, location, originator, and time of creation.
The LinkedDesign project aims for user-centric lifecycle information management. LEAP will therefore provide specific knowledge exploitation solutions such as design decision support systems and collaborative reporting. LEAP will provide a context-driven access to federated information and knowledge and foster cross-discipline collaborations between users by novel approaches for collaborative engineering. LinkedDesign will provide tight feedback connections to existing engineering tools (e.g., CAx Systems) in order to push back formalised knowledge to enable the automated design of elementary product components.
| Web resources: |
http://www.linkeddesign.eu
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/284613 |
| Start date: | 01-09-2011 |
| End date: | 31-08-2015 |
| Total budget - Public funding: | 12 561 115,00 Euro - 8 061 848,00 Euro |
Original description
What is clearly missing in the current ICT landscape for manufacturing is an integrated, holistic view on data across the full product lifecycle. Especially the design and engineering of products and manufacturing processes is decoupled from the actual process execution. As experiences of the past show, a tight integration of all tools used throughout a product lifetime is not feasible.LinkkME addresses these shortcomings by providing an integrated, holistic view on data, persons and processes across the product lifecycle as a vital resource for the outstanding competitive design of novel products and manufacturing processes. To achieve this goal the project will develop the Linked Engineering and mAnufacturing Platform (LEAP) as an integrated information system for manufacturing design. LEAP federates all product lifecycle information relevant to drive engineering and manufacturing processes, independent of its format, location, originator, and time of creation. Besides the unified access to the integrated information, LEAP will provide specific knowledge exploitation solutions like sentiment analysis and design decision support systems to analyse the integrated information.Within LinkkME we aim for a user-centric lifecycle information management. LEAP will provide a context-driven access to federated information and knowledge and foster cross-discipline collaborations between users by novel approaches for collaborative engineering.Finally, LinkkME will provide tight feedback connections to existing engineering tools (e.g., CAx Systems) in order to push back formalised knowledge to enable the automated design of elementary product components.All concepts and components developed within the LinkkME project will be evaluated using three application prototypes deployed at the application partners' industry sites. Further, the project team will develop four show case demonstrators in the Living Labs associated to the consortium.In terms of impact, partners estimate reductions of up to 50% in time spent for search and knowledge acquisition through the improved (collaborative) information access and reductions of over 20% in time to market through support and automation of product and manufacturing design provided by the engineering platform.Status
CLOCall topic
FoF-ICT-2011.7.4Update Date
27-10-2022Within the project, a life cycle costs optimization of industrial system is performed, combining it with life cycle environmental impacts and building a multi-objective optimization
Part of the project covered the field of KBE (Knowledge Based Engineering). In detail, the project developed a methodology to codify product development, in order to automate codification and knowledge acquisition. Furthermore, “rule interchange format” is developed, enabling an application-independent management of rules and algorithms.
Part of the project covered the development of algorithms for the multi objective optimization of life cycle costs and environmental impacts. The tool developed aimed to support designers activities since the early design stages, supporting them in the creation and identification of the optimal lifecycle oriented solution. The developed platform aims at including all involved user grops to improve the production and design process of the products and processes.
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| SAP AG (Coördinator)
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| AKER ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY AS
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| Aalto University (Aalto Korkeakoulusaation)
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| BIBA - BREMER INSTITUT FUER PRODUKTION UND LOGISTIK GMBH
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| COMAU SPA
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| ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL)
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| GIOUMPITEK MELETI SCHEDIASMOS YLOPOIISI KAI POLISI ERGON PLIROFORIKIS ETAIREIA PERIORISMENIS EFTHYNI...
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| HOLONIX SRL
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| INSTITUT FUR ANGEWANDTE INFORMATIK EV
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| NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU
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| Politecnico di Milano
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| TRIMEK SA
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| UNIVERSITAET LEIPZIG
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| Volkswagen AG
Different partners of the projects are involved in the QLM Open Group (http://www.opengroup.org/subjectareas/qlm-work-group). The project contributed to the development of this open standard about product lifecycle management.