X-ACT | Expert cooperative robots for highly skilled operations for the factory of the future
01-10-2012
-30-09-2015
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LIAA | Lean Intelligent Assembly Automation
02-09-2013
-01-09-2017
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ambliFibre | adaptive model-based Control for laser-assisted Fibre-reinforced tape winding
01-09-2015
-31-08-2018
NIMBLE | Collaboration Network for Industry, Manufacturing, Business and Logistics in Europe
01-10-2016
-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.
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].
ReconCell | A Reconfigurable robot workCell for fast set-up of automated assembly processes in SMEs
11-01-2015
-28-02-2019
MANTIS | Cyber Physical System based Proactive Collaborative Maintenance
01-05-2015
-31-07-2018
I-MECH | Intelligent Motion Control Platform for Smart Mechatronic Systems
01-06-2017
-31-05-2020
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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
ZDZW | Non-Destructive Inspection Services for Digitally Enhanced Zero Waste Manufacturing
01-09-2022
-31-08-2025
ROBO-PARTNER | Seamless Human-Robot Cooperation for Intelligent, Flexible and Safe Operations in the Assembly Factories of the Future
01-11-2013
-30-04-2017
SYMBIO-TIC | Symbiotic Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly: Technologies, Innovations and Competitiveness
01-04-2015
-31-03-2019
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Fortissimo 2 | Factories of the Future Resources, Technology, Infrastructure and Services for Simulation and Modelling 2
11-01-2015
-31-12-2018
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FlexHyJoin | Flexible production cell for hybrid joining
10-01-2015
-31-12-2018
THOMAS | Mobile dual arm robotic workers with embedded cognition for hybrid and dynamically reconfigurable manufacturing systems
01-10-2016
-31-03-2021
MANUWORK | Balancing Human and Automation Levels for the Manufacturing Workplaces of the Future
01-10-2016
-31-03-2020
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COMPOSITION | Ecosystem for Collaborative Manufacturing Processes _ Intra- and Interfactory Integration and Automation
01-09-2016
-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.
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PreCoM | Predictive Cognitive Maintenance Decision Support System
01-11-2017
-28-02-2021
FACTS4WORKERS | Worker-Centric Workplaces in Smart Factories
01-12-2014
-30-11-2018
SAFIRE | Cloud-based Situational Analysis for Factories providing Real-time Reconfiguration Services
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
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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.
Comment: Interconnected Systems of Production Systems (SoPS)
Comment: Interconnected Systems of Production Systems (SoPS)
sustainablySMART | Sustainable Smart Mobile Devices Lifecycles through Advanced Re-design, Reliability, and Re-use and Remanufacturing Technologies
01-09-2015
-31-10-2019
ReCaM | Rapid Reconfiguration of Flexible Production Systems through Capability-based Adaptation, Auto-configuration and Integrated tools for Production Planning
11-01-2015
-31-10-2018
FAR-EDGE | Factory Automation Edge Computing Operating System Reference Implementation
01-10-2016
-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.
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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).
Daedalus | Distributed control and simulAtion platform to support an Ecosystem of DigitAL aUtomation developerS
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
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Comment: CPS interface: Extension of automation objects to include/interface with behavioral models. HW/SW wrapping of legacy and/or proprietary systems
DISRUPT | Decentralised architectures for optimised operations via virtualised processes and manufacturing ecosystem collaboration
01-09-2016
-31-08-2019
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Comment: Meta-models will comply to the Open Model Initiative and possibly contribute to it.
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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]
ZAero | Zero-defect manufacturing of composite parts in the aerospace industry
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
ROSSINI | RObot enhanced SenSing, INtelligence and actuation to Improve job quality in manufacturing
01-10-2018
-31-03-2022
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CREMA | Cloud-based Rapid Elastic MAnufacturing
01-01-2015
-31-12-2017
AUTOWARE | Wireless Autonomous, Reliable and Resilient ProductIon Operation ARchitecture for Cognitive Manufacturing
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
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Comment: Goal: AUTOWARE will establish and push forward an open CPPS ecosystem, allowing SMEs to access all the different components in order to develop digital automation cognitive solutions for their manufacturing processes. .
Leveraging reference heterogeneous communications and networking architecture to support connectivity & data management in CPPS. To allow the interaction and interworking of the heterogeneous communications and networking technologies necessary to support the ubiquitous connectivity of CPPS.
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HORSE | Smart integrated Robotics system for SMEs controlled by Internet of Things based on dynamic manufacturing processes
11-01-2015
-31-07-2020
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Comment: HORSE Framework does not only include a technology platform but also a reference architecture, which was furthermore made public.
TWIN-CONTROL | Twin-model based virtual manufacturing for machine tool-process simulation and control
10-01-2015
-30-09-2018
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vf-OS | Virtual Factory Open Operating System
01-10-2016
-31-10-2019