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MARKET4.0 | A Multi-Sided Business Platform for Plug and Produce Industrial Product Service Systems

01-11-2018

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30-04-2022

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Industrial Reference ICT Architectures
Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
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MARKET4.0 Metal domain DATA SPACE based on IDS RA
MARKET4.0 Metal domain DATA SPACE based on IDS RA

M4.0 metal domain addresses the BUSINESS LAYER of the vertical side of RAMI and the ENTERPRISE and CONNECTED WORLD layers of the hyerarchical side

MUSIC | MUlti-layers control&cognitive System to drive metal and plastic production line for Injected Components

01-09-2012

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31-08-2016

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Industrial Reference ICT Architectures
Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
RAMI 4.0 Hierarchy Axis
Field Device
Comment:

The equipment and devices are sensorized to be deeper monitored

Work station
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Manufacturing cell is monitored with data acquisition from  any level.

Work centres - Production lines
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All stages of production line are connecteted to the Data-Driven Digital Twin platform

Enterprise - Factory
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All different production lines and plants can be monitored wiht the same platform because it is felxible and scalable.

Connected Enterprises - Factories
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Data-Driven Digital Twin enables the collaboration between OEM and Suppliers

ICP4Life | An Integrated Collaborative Platform for Managing the Product-Service Engineering Lifecycle

01-01-2015

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31-12-2018

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Comment: Several communication technologies depending on the service: Ethernet, OPC, OPC UA
Industrial Reference ICT Architectures
Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
RAMI 4.0 Hierarchy Axis
Field Device
Comment: ICP4Life will permit and demonstrate the design of products (machines, molds...) adapted to the manufacturing user requirements using the CUSTOMIZER and DESIGNER. This involves also the suppliers of machine components. For example: INERTIA is a sensor provider participating in the Project. The integration of sensors in complex products (machines) in a seamless way is the approach of the DESIGNER component of the platform. This way; ICP4LIFE permits an easy and friendly integration of field devices (sensors) in the production line equipment (machines) in order to acquire data and provide new services
Result items:
ICP4Life Designer Component
ICP4Life Designer Component
I#Services: the ICP4Life Designer component focuses on the machine level, while integrating design process on sub-system level
Work station
Enterprise - Factory
Result items:
ICP4Life Designer Component
ICP4Life Designer Component
#Service, #Connectivity: Designer component will act as a connector among different domain engineers, including PSS top managers, to facilitate their communication, data management, decision making, etc. Furthermore, it will perform a link to different specific legacy CAX tools to circulate the information flow and data sharing or management. Finally, since the different development stages of a PSS solution/offer will have inevitable interrelationships, there are interactions between the Designer component and the others on the ICP4Life platform.
Connected Enterprises - Factories
Comment: ICP4LIFE platform permits the symbiosis of equipment supplier and user, providing the input from the user in the configuration of the product-service by the supplier. The interaction amongst both companies is a key aspect of the project. Services permit the optimization of the productivity (both the manufacturing system supplier as well , the user of the manufacturing system) resilieance, and maintenance services offered by the manufacturing system supplier (Enterprise).
Result items:
ICP4Life Designer Component
ICP4Life Designer Component
#Service, #Connectivity: Designer component will act as a connector among different domain engineers, including PSS top managers, to facilitate their communication, data management, decision making, etc. Furthermore, it will perform a link to different specific legacy CAX tools to circulate the information flow and data sharing or management. Finally, since the different development stages of a PSS solution/offer will have inevitable interrelationships, there are interactions between the Designer component and the others on the ICP4Life platform.
Product
Comment: Version from LUIS: ICP4LIfe concentrates on the design and optimization of product-service systems (machines, molds). These are the use cases to validate the platform. But the platform could be also used to design and engineer final products like household appliances (washing machines, fridges), toys or whatever other product.

HORSE | Smart integrated Robotics system for SMEs controlled by Internet of Things based on dynamic manufacturing processes

11-01-2015

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31-07-2020

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Industrial Reference ICT Architectures
Comment: HORSE Framework does not only include a technology platform but also a reference architecture, which was furthermore made public.
Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
RAMI 4.0 Hierarchy Axis
Field Device
Work station
Enterprise - Factory
Product

Fortissimo 2 | Factories of the Future Resources, Technology, Infrastructure and Services for Simulation and Modelling 2

11-01-2015

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31-12-2018

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Industrial Reference ICT Architectures
Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
RAMI 4.0 Hierarchy Axis
Work centres - Production lines
Result items:
Advanced, cloud-based HPC simulation in the foundry business
Advanced, cloud-based HPC simulation in the foundry business
Cloud-based HPC processing for knowledge generation in camshaft manufacture
Cloud-based HPC processing for knowledge generation in camshaft manufacture
Cloud-based-HPC optimisation of manufacturing processes
Cloud-based-HPC optimisation of manufacturing processes
Product
Result items:
Cloud-based simulation for vehicle engineering
Cloud-based simulation for vehicle engineering

FAR-EDGE | Factory Automation Edge Computing Operating System Reference Implementation

01-10-2016

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31-10-2019

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Comment: According to the RAMI 4.0 architecture, the “standard” way for Industrie 4.0 platforms to integrate legacy equipment (or any other kind of legacy “object”, including software components) into will be to encapsulate them inside an ad-hoc Administration Shell wrapper, which will expose them as I4.0 Components. The I4.0 interface specification has not been published yet, but a key enabling technology will probably be OPC UA, used as both a communication protocol and a data meta-model. In FAR-EDGE, OPC UA will be one of the field communication technology supported.
Result items:
CPS Data Model Architecture - M24 release
CPS Data Model Architecture - M24 release
Industrial Reference ICT Architectures
Comment: Relevant architectures for FAR-EDGE are Platform Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0), Industrial Internet Consortium (IIRA), OpenFog Consortium (OpenFog RA). We will use the 3D coordinate system from RAMI 4.0 to map the elements of the FAR-EDGE Platform to concepts that are commonly understood and agreed on within the Industrie 4.0 community. We are also taking care that the FAR-EDGE Platform implementation will be compatible with future Industrie 4.0 compliant equipment – in particular I4.0 Components – by supporting OPC UA as the main protocol for field communication. Regarding IIRA and OpenFog RA, in the FAR-EDGE RA we are adopting a key architectural pattern included in both of them (with different names): a layered approach that leverages peer-to-peer communication in each layer to decentralize control. The most visible trait of the FAR-EDGE reference architecture is its partitioning into horizontal layers having different scopes – i.e., in bottom-up order: Fog (field, shopfloor), Edge (plant), Cloud (enterprise, supply chain). This pattern in inspired from a similar one in IIRA, called Layered Databus. However, in FAR-EDGE there is no “databus” included in each layer, but rather an additional layer called the Ledger, positioned between the Edge and the Cloud ones. Its role is to coordinate the execution of distributed processes running on Edge Gateways. The horizontal partitioning of the RA is driven by technical concerns (e.g., where software components are deployed, who are the stakeholders of their implementation). There is also a vertical partitioning, though, which is orthogonal to the horizontal one. This is a high-level functional decomposition which identifies three functional scopes: Automation, Virtualization and Analytics (more on that in the API section below).
Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
RAMI 4.0 Hierarchy Axis
Work station
Enterprise - Factory
Product

DISRUPT | Decentralised architectures for optimised operations via virtualised processes and manufacturing ecosystem collaboration

01-09-2016

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31-08-2019

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Comment: Meta-models will comply to the Open Model Initiative and possibly contribute to it.
Industrial Reference ICT Architectures
Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
RAMI 4.0 Hierarchy Axis
Field Device
Comment: To establish proof-of-concept by demonstrating the above on real industrial cases from the automotive and the consumer durables industry and measuring the impact in terms of cost efficiency, time-to-production and resource consumption. Advanced control algorithms and protocols for CPS [CNR]
Work station
Enterprise - Factory
Comment: Novel optimisation algorithms coupled with simulation for scheduling, planning and production planning, including robustness and resource-awareness [AUEB]

NIMBLE | Collaboration Network for Industry, Manufacturing, Business and Logistics in Europe

01-10-2016

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31-03-2020

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Comment: Refrain from proprietary formats; if necessary, build adapters that go both ways (import/export). Platform-independent micro-service architecture (micro-services are designed to be independent of Bluemix stack (but can use it if it’s there)) Standards compliance for product categorisation (eClass), business process specification (UBL), oneM2M for manufacturing interoperation.
Industrial Reference ICT Architectures
Comment: IIRA is the main reference. IIRA is closest in terms of conceptual design for NIMBLE. RAMI is not so applicable to us because we are closer to Internet B2C or B2B platforms. Industrial Data Space is on our radar, but was not sufficiently elaborated at the time of writing the proposal. See https://cloud.effra.eu/index.php/s/NiyTZgM3kw6VCxw The NIMBLE platform is designed to ingest data stemming from edge devices into the platform. Once data has reached the platform, data are stored for future uses such as offline analytics and auditing. In addition, processing of the data as it flows into the platform can be performed in real-time. Offline analytics complements the real-time view by enabling companies to gain insights from their data leading to more efficient processes. We follow the microservice approach for the NIMBLE architecture. Each microservice offers a specific and narrowly defined functionality that is deployed as an independent service [2]. It puts emphasis on real-time application monitoring, including architectural elements and business relevant metrics, e.g. number of orders per minute [2]. In addition, this approach provides decentralized data management and decentralized data storage decisions based on a polyglot persistence method. Microservices can still be combined with monolithic enterprise applications (monolith’s APIs) built as single units, fostering the federation and collaboration of various independent services in the Cloud. Figure 1 depicts the top-level architecture, which is inspired by the microservice infrastructure presented in [3]. Figure 2 then shows the core business services of the platform in more detail. The Gateway Proxy is the public entry point to the microservice application. All user requests are received via the Gateway Proxy and routed to the appropriate service. The Service Logging aggregates log outputs of each individual microservice and makes them available via a Web interface. The Service Monitoring collects data, which are necessary to monitor failures of services; this is implemented using the Circuit Breaker pattern [4]. The Service Monitoring can be used to monitor remote calls, or in any situation where parts of a system need to be protected from failures in other parts. After the number of erroneous executions exceeds a defined threshold, all future calls are immediately returned with an error without the actual function being executed. The Service Discovery enables registration of microservices, as well as mapping between service identifier and the endpoints of instances (e.g. URL or IP address). The role of the Service Configuration is to provide configuration settings for each service. The service communication is enabled either via REST (i.e. HTTP) or by using the Messaging Service (based on Apache Kafka), which provides asynchronous and scalable communication. Finally, the User Account and Authentication (UAA) & Identity Management administrates user identities on the platform. It combines the three standard protocols: OAuth2 for delegated authorization [5], OpenID Connect for session and authentication information [6], and the System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) for user and group management [7].
Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
RAMI 4.0 Hierarchy Axis
Product

MANUWORK | Balancing Human and Automation Levels for the Manufacturing Workplaces of the Future

01-10-2016

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31-03-2020

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Industrial Reference ICT Architectures
Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
RAMI 4.0 Hierarchy Axis
Work station
Result items:
Augmented Reality (AR) for supporting operators in press-brake operation
Augmented Reality (AR) for supporting operators in press-brake operation
Work centres - Production lines
Result items:
Augmented Reality (AR) for supporting operators in press-brake operation
Augmented Reality (AR) for supporting operators in press-brake operation

SAFIRE | Cloud-based Situational Analysis for Factories providing Real-time Reconfiguration Services

01-10-2016

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30-09-2019

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Interoperability (ICT)
Industrial Reference ICT Architectures
Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
RAMI 4.0 Hierarchy Axis
Field Device
Comment: Cloud based secure infrastructure for reconfiguration and optimisation. The envisaged SAFIRE infrastructure will be an add-on for an existing production system or next generation smart factory operating system, allowing to transform such production systems into advanced production systems capable of real-time reconfiguration and optimisation.
Result items:
SAFIRE OAS pilot: Optimisation of production processes and preventive maintenance activities
SAFIRE OAS pilot: Optimisation of production processes and preventive maintenance activities
Work station
Comment: Interconnected Systems of Production Systems (SoPS)
Result items:
SAFIRE OAS pilot: Optimisation of production processes and preventive maintenance activities
SAFIRE OAS pilot: Optimisation of production processes and preventive maintenance activities
SAFIRE ONA pilot: Adaptive Machining
SAFIRE ONA pilot: Adaptive Machining
Connected Enterprises - Factories
Comment: Interconnected Systems of Production Systems (SoPS)
Result items:
SAFIRE OAS pilot: Optimisation of production processes and preventive maintenance activities
SAFIRE OAS pilot: Optimisation of production processes and preventive maintenance activities
SAFIRE ONA pilot: Adaptive Machining
SAFIRE ONA pilot: Adaptive Machining

TWIN-CONTROL | Twin-model based virtual manufacturing for machine tool-process simulation and control

10-01-2015

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30-09-2018

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Fleet Management Platform for Machine Tools
Fleet Management Platform for Machine Tools
Industrial Reference ICT Architectures
Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
RAMI 4.0 Hierarchy Axis
Field Device
Result items:
Local Monitoring and Control System
Local Monitoring and Control System
Enterprise - Factory
Result items:
Fleet Management Platform for Machine Tools
Fleet Management Platform for Machine Tools
Connected Enterprises - Factories
Result items:
Fleet Management Platform for Machine Tools
Fleet Management Platform for Machine Tools
Product
Result items:
Local Monitoring and Control System
Local Monitoring and Control System

COMPOSITION | Ecosystem for Collaborative Manufacturing Processes _ Intra- and Interfactory Integration and Automation

01-09-2016

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31-08-2019

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Comment: Interoperability between installed equipment and infrastructure (machines, environment, people) is critical to capture and process data for the COMPOSITION IIMS components.
Result items:
Interoperability for M2M & HMI in factory environments II
Interoperability for M2M & HMI in factory environments II
Industrial Reference ICT Architectures
Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
RAMI 4.0 Hierarchy Axis
Field Device
Comment: An initial choice is going to be made for WSN technology so that the sensors can be retrofitted on, or near to, existing equipment on either a temporary or permanent basis.
Enterprise - Factory
Comment: The COMPOSITION IIMS will include a core set of data management and analytics tools to fuse data coming from different disjoint levels of the factory lifecycle.

I-MECH | Intelligent Motion Control Platform for Smart Mechatronic Systems

01-06-2017

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31-05-2020

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Industrial Reference ICT Architectures
Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
RAMI 4.0 Hierarchy Axis
Field Device
Comment: I-MECH will develop a set of smart building blocks, embedding leading edge capabilities from our academic partners, which can be used for rapid development of the lower layers of these high performance motion control systems. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) concepts will be used to achieve a high degree of configurability, scalability and interoperability of the individual components, while maintaining the reliability, safety, certifiability and time-to-market benefits of off the shelf solutions. The project vision is to provide enhanced motion control intelligence for wide range of CPS involving actively controlled moving elements. In consequence, such CPS will: - be able to measure the performance of its individual instrumented parts (drives, sensors, actuators, electronics) - optimize and adapt control actions according to condition and machine dynamics changes - be able to actively detect and reject residual vibrations when pushing machine performance to the physical limit - learn during repeating tasks and optimize its performance automatically - accommodate new sensors and actuators with different performance profiles - integrate multiple motion and control activities on multi-many core platforms

UPTIME | UNIFIED PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE SYSTEM

01-09-2017

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28-02-2021

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Industrial Reference ICT Architectures
Comment:

The UPTIME conceptual architecture was designed according to the ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 “System and software engineering – Architecture description” and mapped to RAMI 4.0 in order to ensure that it can be represent predictive maintenance in the frame of Industry 4.0.

The UPTIME vision converges and synthesizes predictive maintenance, proactive computing, the Gartner’s levels of industrial analytics maturity and the ISO 13374 as implemented in MIMOSA OSA-CBM in order to create a consistent basis for a generic predictive maintenance architecture in an IoT-based industrial environment. In this way, the Operational Technology and the Information Technology can also be converged in the context of Industry 4.0.

Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
RAMI 4.0 Vertical Axis and associated standards
Communication Layer (RAMI 4.0)
IEEE 802.15.4-2020 - IEEE Standard for Low-Rate Wireless Networks

Z-BRE4K | Strategies and Predictive Maintenance models wrapped around physical systems for Zero-unexpected-Breakdowns and increased operating life of Factories

01-10-2017

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31-03-2021

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Comment:

Α Web API will return semantic data. The communication interface is through the SPARQL query engine. Z-BRE4K ontology is implemented with the Open Semantic Framework (OSF), an integrated software stack using semantic technologies for knowledge management. Furthermore, JSON formatted data from the shop floor is transferred through a MQTT broker, to be finally stored in I-LiKe machines internal data repository. IDS connectors are used to transform data into the NGSI format, move the data to the ORION context broker to be finally consumed by other applications. Also, the Quality Information Framework (QIF) standard guarantees interoperability since it defines an integrated set of information models that enable the effective exchange of metrology data throughout the entire manufacturing quality measurement process – from product design to inspection planning to execution to analysis and reporting. OpenCPPS (part of AUTOWARE) will provide support for selected mainstream communication protocols and will define the proper interfaces for other communication protocols to be plugged-in.

Industrial Reference ICT Architectures
Comment:

The Z-Bre4k solution is based on the blackboard architectural model. This model is mainly an artificial intelligence approach, where a common knowledge base, the "blackboard", is iteratively updated by a diverse group of specialist knowledge sources, starting with a problem specification and ending with a solution. Each knowledge source updates the blackboard with a partial solution when its internal constraints match the blackboard state. In this way, the specialists work together to solve the problem. The blackboard model was originally designed as a way to handle complex, ill-defined problems, where the solution is the sum of its parts. The blackboard component acts as a central repository system. The rest of the software applications (components) act independently at the common data structure stored on the blackboard, they respond on changes and create new reactions according to changes. Interaction between components is implemented via the blackboard.

Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
RAMI 4.0 Hierarchy Axis
Field Device
Work station
Work centres - Production lines
Enterprise - Factory
Connected Enterprises - Factories
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