Projects overview
ETEKINA | HEAT PIPE TECHNOLOGY FOR THERMAL ENERGY RECOVERY IN INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS
01-10-2017
-30-09-2021
CyberFactory#1 | Addressing opportunities and threats for the Factory of the Future (FoF)
17-12-2018
-30-06-2022
ConnectedFactories 2 | Global-leading smart manufacturing through digital platforms, cross-cutting factors and skilled workforce
01-12-2019
-30-11-2022
DIY4U | Open Innovation Digital Platform and Fablabs for Collaborative Design and Production of personalised/customised FMCG
01-11-2019
-30-04-2023
DigiPrime | Digital Platform for Circular Economy in Cross-sectorial Sustainable Value Networks
01-01-2020
-31-12-2023
The DigiPrime project aims to address the issue of poor data and knowledge exchange among value chain stakeholders and sectors, which hinders cross-sectoral circular economy opportunities and limits the uptake of reusable materials by end customers. To solve this problem, the project is developing a digital platform concept that aims to overcome the current information asymmetry among value chain stakeholders. The project's main goal is to unlock new circular business models by focusing on the data-enhanced recovery and reuse of functions and materials from high-value-added post-use products as the foundation of its platform.
To achieve this, the project has planned standardization activities that cover two complementary aspects:
- Utilizing existing standards, such as those related to data modelling, to support the project's implementation activities and avoid duplicating effort during development; and
- Influencing future standardization in the circular economy as a means to increase visibility and maximize the overall impact of the project.
By doing so, the project aims to promote consistency in the circular economy and improve the efficiency of data and knowledge exchange among value chain stakeholders.
SHOP4CF | Smart Human Oriented Platform for Connected Factories
01-01-2020
-31-12-2023
DIMOFAC | Digital Intelligent MOdular FACtories
01-10-2019
-31-03-2024
RECLAIM | RE-manufaCturing and Refurbishment LArge Industrial equipMent
01-10-2019
-30-09-2023
Volunteers from FEUP, CERTH, and UNI collaborated to compile all the technical and standard data for the formulation of the technical specification based on the specifications specified by the pilots' leaders. A full explanation of the use cases and the machines involved in the refurbishment, remanufacturing, and retrofitting during the RECLAIM project has been developed using the needs that were determined during the information gathering phase. The matrix of requirements for the identification of the prospective issues to be the challenge at the RECLAIM project has been finished by the industrial partners Gorenje, Fluchos, Podium, Harms & Wende, and Zorlutek. The demand and gap in the standardised field were included in these matrices, which is a crucial factor to consider the technical solution in the future. UNI carried out the standardised analysis plan from the input data given by other partners involved in this endeavour.
The main standardisation gaps to be considered during the RECLAIM project were: Monitoring Sensors: Alignment verification, quality and density of water pipeline, energy consumption of the furnace, real time monitoring; Predictive Maintenance: Definition of standards to predict shutdown; Human Error: Need of standardized procedure to record spare parts.
REMODEL | Robotic tEchnologies for the Manipulation of cOmplex DeformablE Linear objects
01-11-2019
-31-10-2023
MERGING | Manipulation Enhancement through Robotic Guidance and Intelligent Novel Grippers
01-11-2019
-31-10-2023
Arrowhead Tools | Arrowhead Tools for Engineering of Digitalisation Solutions
01-05-2019
-31-07-2022
MADEin4 | Metrology Advances for Digitized ECS industry 4.0
01-04-2019
-30-09-2022
RebootIoTFactory | Reboot IoT Factory
01-03-2018
-30-04-2021
CSA-Industy4.E | Coordination and Support Action for Industry4.E
01-10-2018
-31-03-2021
ZDMP | Zero Defect Manufacturing Platform
01-01-2019
-30-06-2023
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Details: Data Interoperability/ OPC/I4.0
Details: Industrial Automation Systems, Product Catalogues
Details: Industrial Automation Systems, Product Catalogues
Details: Industrial Automation Systems, Product Catalogues
Details: Enterprise Systems, Interoperability, Integration
Details: Enterprise Systems, Interoperability, Integration
Details: IoT/Device Integration
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Details: Messaging, message Exchange
Details: Messaging, message Exchange
Details: Messaging, message Exchange
Details: Information Management
Details: Messaging, message Exchange
Details: Information Security
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Details: Information Security
Details: Information Security
Details: Information Security
Details: Information Security
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Details: Information Management; Information Secutity
Details: Messaging, message Exchange
Details: IoT/Device Integration
Details: IoT/Device Integration
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Details: Data Management
Details: Cloud Computing
Details: Industrial Automation Systems, Product Catalogues
Details: Industrial Automation Systems, Product Catalogues
Details: Maintenance
Details: IoT/Device Integration
Details: Industrial Automation Systems, Product Catalogues
Details: Data Interoperability/ OPC/I4.0
Details: Data Interoperability/ OPC/I4.0
Details: Industrial Automation Systems, Product Catalogues
Details: ZDMP-IoT/Device Integration; Data interoperability, OPC ,I4.0
Details: IoT/Device Integration
Details: Information Security
Details: IoT Architecture
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EFPF (European Factory Platform) | European Connected Factory Platform for Agile Manufacturing
01-01-2019
-31-12-2022
EFPF ensured that the Factory platform complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Aligning project objectives and activities with existing laws and standards is a crucial component of EFPF. In order to ease data sharing and standardisation procedures, it also engages in significant engagements with national and European regulation and standardisation organisations on smart industrial automation, data processing, and analytics. The question of which of the increasingly overlapping standards to use as a reference for every particular platform solution confronts researchers and technicians at EFPF. This is a typical issue in any field where standards are in conflict or overlap.
The strategy used by EFPF is to closely monitor the development of various standardisation initiatives. With the assistance of experts (like ASI, a core partner of EFPF), RTD activities are aligned with ongoing standardisation activities with the goal of adopting existing standards and, when possible, contributing to their development. Based on the nature of technical activities in WP3 to WP7, the following aspects of EFPF are considered relevant to the ongoing standardisation and regulation activities:
- Connecting multiple digital manufacturing tools, services and platforms through APIs and service interfaces to realise a federated platform;
- Exchange of data by the diverse tools, systems and platforms that need to be federated through the Data Spine;
- Establishing interconnectivity and interoperability to most widely used industrial data exchange standards and systems;
- Smart contracting in agile value networks through the use of blockchain technology;
- Security and privacy of information exchanged between partners in collaboration and also, the information exchanged through the platform;
- Linkage and interoperability of commonly used security protocols; and
- The use of Cloud services for storage and marketplace solutions.
QU4LITY | Digital Reality in Zero Defect Manufacturing
01-01-2019
-31-07-2022
QU4LITY project addresses a standardization strategy for zero-defect production. This project resolves missing or overlapping elements in various ZDM standardisation areas. The standards study makes use of the most recent findings from Task T9.2 regarding present-day activities and stakeholders in relation to the identified standardised ecosystem. In order to provide reliable solutions QU4LITY supports compliance with the five relevant cross-cutting standardised domains, QU4LITY conducts pilots on the most appropriate standard usage. All specifications aim at providing helpful recommendations for use for affected pilots:
1. Compliance Specification for Interoperability Standards
2. Compliance Specification for Safety and Security Standards
3. Compliance Specification for Artificial Intelligence Standards
4. Compliance Specification for Quality Standards
5. Compliance Specification for Reference Architecture Standards, Reference
Architecture Standards, Digital Models and Vocabularies
Overview of standards and compliance associated to demonstrators (pilots)
Details: Quality,; guidance for onfiguration management - activity that applies technical and administrative direction over the life cycle of a product and service, its configuration identification and status, and related product and service configuration information.
Details: Quality, requirements for a quality management system
Details: Qualit modelling and support of quality workflow scenarious
Details: Blockchain
Details: Information model (QIF) and data formed into XML instance files support the entire scope of model based definition manufacturing quality workflow
Details: MQTT: an extremel lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport protocol
Details: Vocabulary, Information technology (IT) in general
Details: AMQP
Details: Information security management systems; Vocabulary
Details: ISMS: Establishing, implementing, maintaining and continually improving an information security management system within the context of the organization (Information security)
Details: Cybersecurity (basis standard, inkl. terms and concepts relating to cyber security and cyber risk management)
Details: ISMS: Establishing, implementing, maintaining and continually improving an information security management system within the context of the organization (Information security)
Details: Security RA
Details: General concepts and principles of IT security evaluation; general model of evaluation
Details: RA/RM (basic standard) applied for QU4LITY-RA
Details: JSON
Details: IT Security, requirements, evaluation criteria for IT security
Details: Industrial IoT standards and roadmapping
Details: Edge Computing
Details: Edge Computing
Details: IoT RA
Details: IoT, information exchange, peer-to-peer connectivity and seamless communication both between different IoT systems
Details: IoT, Use cases
Details: IoT, Semantic interoperability
Details: IoT, interoperability framework
Details: IoT, Vocabulary
Details: AI, Framework for AI systems using ML
Details: Big data vocabulary
Details: AI, Use cases
Details: AI, foundational, concepts and terminology
Details: Cloud computing, Fundamentalsn for Cloud services and devices: data flow, data categories and data use;
Details: Cloud Computing, Concepts
Details: Cloud Compuitng, Terminology
Details: Cloud computing general overview and vocabulary
Details: Production system engineering; process quality and optimisation designer; distributed industrial-process measurement and control systems
Details: Feldbus/Device level (EtheCAT, PROFINET): Generic concept of fieldbuse
Details: General principles of the Digital Factory framework
Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Corporate Network/ Production OT Access Network: Deterministic Ethernet (TSN), OPC-UA, IDS/NGSI-LD
Details: OPC UA: an industrial M2M communication protocol for Interoperability; Information modelling
Details: RAMI4.0 - Digital twin, process optimization run-time
Details: Cyber Security in Industrial Environments
Details: AAS, Interoperability
Details: Network: Wireless local area networks
Details: Connectivity requirements: Specifications (models) for low-data-rate wireless connectivity with fixed, portable, and moving devices with no battery or very limited battery consumption requirements
Details: Communication: Protocols, procedures, and managed objects for the transport of timing over local area networks
Details: Data Models: proposes an overarching integrated conceptual model that describes interactions between the physical world, the user, and digital information, the context for AR-assisted learning and other parameters of the environment
Details: MT Connect: used to access real-time data from shop floor manufacturing equipment such as machine tools
Details: Interoperability & Common APIs: straightforward integration of a machine tool into higher level IT systems
Details: Applied to address performance analysisi and porcess optimisazion (i.e. allows to capture data that is required to do performance analysis of production facilities)
Details: Interoperable information model, vocabulary, and encoding mechanisms for representing statements about the usage of content and services.
Details: LCM: Enabling digital physical asset lifecycle management spanning plants, platforms and facilities; functional and interoperability requirements for Critical Infrastructure Management on a cross-sector basis
Details: IIRA
Details: REST API: application of standards and specification for HTTP/REST APIs
Details: API, Interoperability: global camera interface standard using the Gigabit Ethernet communication protocol to allow fast image transfer using low cost standard cables over very long lengths.
Details: Vocabulary, Interoperability, used to define the schema and enable a publisher to describe datasets and data services in a catalog using a standard model and vocabulary that facilitates the consumption and aggregation of metadata from multiple catalogs.
Details: Specification that standardizes the connection between cameras and frame grabbers and defines a complete interface (provisions for data transfer, camera timing, serial communications, and real time signaling to the camera)
Details: Use of open souce plattform for messaging and data streaming.
Details: OS: Robot Operating System
INTEGRADDE | Intelligent data-driven pipeline for the manufacturing of certified metal parts through Direct Energy Deposition processes
01-10-2018
-31-03-2023
The major goal of INTEGRADDE was to develop a novel end-to-end solution capable of demonstrating the potential of Directed Energy Deposition (DED) processes for the manufacturing of certified large metal components in strategic metalworking sectors. The project is focused on additive manufacturing, specifically laser metal deposition. This technology requires validation, and the compatibility of various pieces in the manufacturing process must be verified under real-world situations. Standardization, therefore, has great significance. The case study demonstrates the need for adequate planning of resources for standardisation as well as the requirement to provide project partners who are unfamiliar with standards and standardisation with training. Two obstacles stand out: first, the distinct nature and timetables of standardisation processes from those of research, and second, the apparent conflict between IP protection and the requirement for openness during the standardisation process. Nevertheless, the use of standards/standardisation seeks to help increase quality and reliability in the specific AM process.
CoLLaboratE | Co-production CeLL performing Human-Robot Collaborative AssEmbly
01-10-2018
-31-03-2022
HR-Recycler | Hybrid Human-Robot RECYcling plant for electriCal and eLEctRonic equipment
01-12-2018
-30-11-2022
LaserWay | Extremely High-Speed Laser Processes For Sustainable And Flexible Manufacturing
01-01-2024
-31-12-2026