Projects overview
OPEN_NEXT | Company-Community Collaboration for Open Source Development of products and services
01-09-2019
-30-11-2022
MARKET4.0 | A Multi-Sided Business Platform for Plug and Produce Industrial Product Service Systems
01-11-2018
-30-04-2022
AI REGIO | Regions and DIHs alliance for AI-driven digital transformation of European Manufacturing SMEs
01-10-2020
-30-09-2023
AI-PROFICIENT | Artificial Intelligence for improved PROduction efFICIEncy, quality and maiNTenance
01-11-2020
-31-10-2023
The proposed approach is underpinned by predictive and prescriptive AI analytics at both component and system level, by cross-fertilizing edge and platform AI, while leveraging the human knowledge and feedback for reinforcement learning (human-in-the-loop)
COALA | COgnitive Assisted agile manufacturing for a LAbor force supported by trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
01-10-2020
-30-09-2023
COALA is a solution for cognitive assistance that consists of a composition of trustworthy AI components with a voice-enabled digital intelligent assistant as an interface.
COALA will contribute in the ongoing discussion about AI ethics and potential standards, monitor the standardization potential for worker education under consideration of AI competencies, and will use and contribute to IT standards. We will take into account available IT-related standards and use them when applicable. This includes normative standards as set by ISO and its national bodies, which are of high importance to industrial companies. We will assess standards proposed by major influential de-facto standardization bodies like W3C, OASIS, and OMG. Standardization topics concern:
- The technical system architecture level. Standardize communication protocols, data exchange formats, data exchange interfaces.
- The content level. Ontologies for the semantic data integration and the WHY engine.
- The process level. This includes innovation management system, terminology, terms and definitions, and tools and methods.
COALA calls for a new experience in human-machine collaboration: it fosters a vision of human-AI symbiosis in which AI augments its users instead of replacing and devaluing them. COALA aims to assist human reasoning, keep humans in decision making without directing them algorithmically.
COALA will develop a Digital Intelligent Assistant (DIA) that can advise blue collar workers, such as machine operators and line managers, in complex, agile, and quality-focused discrete or process manufacturing industry. At this concern, human-centred interaction with the assistant needs to consider aspects such as the instant availability of information, support to problem solving of an adaptive system (e.g. context-awareness, internal information parsing, and impact evaluation).
STAR | Safe and Trusted Human Centric Artificial Intelligence in Future Manufacturing Lines
01-01-2021
-31-12-2023
ASSISTANT | leArning and robuSt deciSIon SupporT systems for agile mANufacTuring environments
01-11-2020
-31-10-2023
DAT4.ZERO | Data Reliability and Digitally-enhanced Quality Management for Zero Defect Manufacturing in Smart Factories and Ecosystems
01-10-2020
-31-03-2024
RFID Positioning System – Use of multiple RFID receivers within the cell would allow for 3D location tracking of the parts to be assembled in the system, ensuring parts are correctly present and in the right locations before proceeding.
User interfaces were designed in WinCC
Nikon K-CMM Metrology - By positioning LEDs on the robot end effector, and on the target parts, the K-CMM system can measure relative positioning to a very high degree of accuracy even over large distances.
Siemens TIA Portal, WinCC, PLCs – The lower level control of resources in the system was performed with Siemens brand programmable logic controllers
Nikon Adaptive Robotic Control (ARC) – this technology allows data from metrology systems to correct a robot controller’s coordinate system and compensate for inaccuracies and variability.
KUKA Robotics – Compatible with the ARC system, the KUKA robots were used for part positioning.
Siemens Totally Integrated Automation Portal (TIA Portal)
RFID Positioning System – Use of multiple RFID receivers within the cell would allow for 3D location tracking of the parts to be assembled in the system, ensuring parts are correctly present and in the right locations before proceeding.
User interfaces were designed in WinCC
Nikon K-CMM Metrology - By positioning LEDs on the robot end effector, and on the target parts, the K-CMM system can measure relative positioning to a very high degree of accuracy even over large distances.
Siemens TIA Portal, WinCC, PLCs – The lower level control of resources in the system was performed with Siemens brand programmable logic controllers
Nikon Adaptive Robotic Control (ARC) – this technology allows data from metrology systems to correct a robot controller’s coordinate system and compensate for inaccuracies and variability.
KUKA Robotics – Compatible with the ARC system, the KUKA robots were used for part positioning.
Siemens Totally Integrated Automation Portal (TIA Portal)
Grafana – Used for the creation of bespoke data visualisation solutions.
Python / Tensorflow / Pytorch – Used for the creation of bespoke machine learning algorithms and analysis processes.
Siemens Teamcenter, Process Simulate, PLCSIM Advanced, NX – The virtual commissioning system is based on Siemens’ suite of software solutions. This selection was based on the capabilities of the software itself, and on the use of Siemens hardware for the control of the demonstrator.
BOOST 4.0 | Big Data Value Spaces for COmpetitiveness of European COnnected Smart FacTories 4.0
01-01-2018
-31-12-2020
Grafana – Used for the creation of bespoke data visualisation solutions.
Python / Tensorflow / Pytorch – Used for the creation of bespoke machine learning algorithms and analysis processes.
Siemens Teamcenter, Process Simulate, PLCSIM Advanced, NX – The virtual commissioning system is based on Siemens’ suite of software solutions. This selection was based on the capabilities of the software itself, and on the use of Siemens hardware for the control of the demonstrator.
OPTIMAL | Automated Maskless Laser Lithography Platform for First Time Right Mixed Scale Patterning
01-10-2022
-30-09-2026
5G-TIMBER | Secure 5G-Enabled Twin Transition for Europe's TIMBER Industry Sector
01-06-2022
-31-05-2025
KYKLOS 4.0 | An Advanced Circular and Agile Manufacturing Ecosystem based on rapid reconfigurable manufacturing process and individualized consumer preferences
01-01-2020
-31-12-2023