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SYMBIO-TIC | Symbiotic Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly: Technologies, Innovations and Competitiveness

01-04-2015

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31-03-2019

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Industrial Reference ICT Architectures
Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
RAMI 4.0 Hierarchy Axis
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Result items:
Demonstrator 1: Human-Robot Collaboration in Food packing
Demonstrator 1: Human-Robot Collaboration in Food packing
Demonstrator 2: Human-Robot Collaboration on Aircraft Rib Assembly
Demonstrator 2: Human-Robot Collaboration on Aircraft Rib Assembly
Demonstrator 3: Human-Robot Collaboration - Mass Balance System Assembly
Demonstrator 3: Human-Robot Collaboration - Mass Balance System Assembly

BEinCPPS | Business Experiments in Cyber Physical Production Systems

11-01-2015

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31-10-2018

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Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality
Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality
Rhône-Alpes Champion: The Smart Mold
Rhône-Alpes Champion: The Smart Mold
OPC-UA for M2M communication, and NGSI for data publishing on the cloud
Industrial Reference ICT Architectures
Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
RAMI 4.0 Hierarchy Axis
Work station
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Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality
Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality
Online results of Product testing are also used for the early detection of problems in the manufacturing plant.
Rhône-Alpes Champion: The Smart Mold
Rhône-Alpes Champion: The Smart Mold
The mold is mounted on top of an press machine, which performs the actual raw material conversion and performs the actual injection process. The smart mold communicates with the press to raise pre-configured alerts when the sensors detect abnormal situations, as well as to guide mechanical movements.

AUTOWARE | Wireless Autonomous, Reliable and Resilient ProductIon Operation ARchitecture for Cognitive Manufacturing

01-10-2016

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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.
Industrial Reference ICT Architectures
Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
RAMI 4.0 Hierarchy Axis
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Comment: Cloud & App-ized Control Systems. Open & Reconfigurable Cells.

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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Industrial Reference ICT Architectures
Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
RAMI 4.0 Hierarchy Axis
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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

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

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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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
Work station

ROSSINI | RObot enhanced SenSing, INtelligence and actuation to Improve job quality in manufacturing

01-10-2018

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31-03-2022

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Industrial Reference ICT Architectures
Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
RAMI 4.0 Hierarchy Axis
Work station
Comment:

The ROSSINI Modular KIT is a set of components that can be integrated to implement robotic workcells, capable of increasing job quality and reducing reconfiguration time.

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