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COMVANTAGE | Collaborative Manufacturing Network for Competitive Advantage

01-09-2011

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31-08-2014

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ICT performance characteristics
Interoperability (ICT)
Collaborative and decentralized application architectures and development tools
Comment: Collaboration space for manufacturing-oriented virtual enterprises (of distributed collaboration partners/stakeholders) - location independent access based on mobile applications, interlinking remote resources (e.g. experts, business data, field data,...)

X-ACT | Expert cooperative robots for highly skilled operations for the factory of the future

01-10-2012

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30-09-2015

: 3
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ICT performance characteristics
Interoperability (ICT)
Collaborative and decentralized application architectures and development tools
Comment: Service oriented architecture for integrating Human, robots, sensors in the assembly process.
Industrial Reference ICT Architectures
Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
RAMI 4.0 Hierarchy Axis
Work station

LINKEDDESIGN | Linked Knowledge in Manufacturing, Engineering and Design for Next-Generation Production

01-09-2011

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31-08-2015

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ICT performance characteristics
Interoperability (ICT)
Collaborative and decentralized application architectures and development tools
Comment: The project developed a tool called “Virtual Obeya”, in order to support the design activities and the collaboration between different people inside and/or outside the company. The tool provides also a lean management of the product development activities.

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

: 6
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ICT performance characteristics
Interoperability (ICT)
General interoperability framework
Integration level interoperability
Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols
Semantic/information interoperability
OPC-UA
Comment:

OPC_UA has been intensively applied in the Data_driven Digital Twin of existing production line

Platform level interoperability
AAA - Access, Authorisation and Authentication
Application level interoperability
Open APIs and Communication Protocols
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
Comment:

Manufacturing cell is monitored with data acquisition from  any level.

Work centres - Production lines
Comment:

All stages of production line are connecteted to the Data-Driven Digital Twin platform

Enterprise - Factory
Comment:

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

Connected Enterprises - Factories
Comment:

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

FALCON | Feedback mechanisms Across the Lifecycle for Customer-driven Optimization of iNnovative product-service design

01-01-2015

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01-01-2018

: 4
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ICT performance characteristics
Interoperability (ICT)
Collaborative and decentralized application architectures and development tools
Comment: The FALCON Virtual Open Platform will be designed as a distributed, multi-system platform consisting of a number of different tools and systems. These include modules for: 1) integrating different types of Product Embedded Information Devices and sensors, 2) extracting information from different social media sources (semantic analysis of unstructured text for blogs and forums, sentiment analysis tools for twitter, etc.), 3) integrating data from third party enterprise systems (e.g. CAD, PLM, ERP systems) 4) provide collaborative, cross-disciplinary design and decision-support for stakeholders involved in the product-service lifecycle. FALCON will implement a semantic middleware to integrate these components, based on the development of the FALCON ontology which will represent concepts of the product-service lifecycle.

CREMA | Cloud-based Rapid Elastic MAnufacturing

01-01-2015

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01-01-2018

: 12
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ICT performance characteristics
Interoperability (ICT)
Collaborative and decentralized application architectures and development tools
General interoperability framework
Application level interoperability
Web-services / Composability
Industrial Reference ICT Architectures
Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
RAMI 4.0 Hierarchy Axis
Field Device
Work station
Enterprise - Factory
Connected Enterprises - Factories

FACTS4WORKERS | Worker-Centric Workplaces in Smart Factories

01-12-2014

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01-12-2018

: 1
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ICT performance characteristics
Interoperability (ICT)
Collaborative and decentralized application architectures and development tools
General interoperability framework
Platform level interoperability
AAA - Access, Authorisation and Authentication
User Acccess and Rights Management
Application level interoperability
Open APIs and Communication Protocols
Industrial Reference ICT Architectures
Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
RAMI 4.0 Hierarchy Axis
Field Device
Work station
Work centres - Production lines

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

01-01-2015

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01-01-2019

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ICT performance characteristics
Interoperability (ICT)
Comment: Several communication technologies depending on the service: Ethernet, OPC, OPC UA
General interoperability framework
Integration level interoperability
Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols
Comment: The components of the platform are connected to the knowledge repository via API and with other sub-components via function calls
Data/object model interoperability - Data exchange formats - APIs
Comment: The services work mainly with machine data while the platform uses all type of file extensions (dwg, pdf,..) and text.
Semantic/information interoperability
Comment: The platform is based on a semantic database where products, sensors, services, patterns and instances are linked. Their fuctionalities, characteristics and models are also linked one with each other.
Application level interoperability
Web-services / Composability
Comment: Platform is devided in several components: front ends, backends, repositories.... Frontend is a portal composed of several portlets in liferay. Backend is a webservice communicated with the frontend on REST using JSON
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
Results:
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
Results:
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).
Results:
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.

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

01-04-2015

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01-04-2019

: 11
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ICT performance characteristics
Interoperability (ICT)
General interoperability framework
Integration level interoperability
Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols
IEC 61499 series - Function blocks
Semantic/information interoperability
IEC 61499 series - Function blocks
Industrial Reference ICT Architectures
Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
RAMI 4.0 Vertical Axis and associated standards
Function Layer (RAMI 4.0)
IEC 61499 series - Function blocks
Information Layer (RAMI 4.0)
IEC 61499 series - Function blocks
Communication Layer (RAMI 4.0)
IEC 61499 series - Function blocks
RAMI 4.0 Hierarchy Axis
Work station
Results:
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
Product
Results:
Demonstrator 1: Human-Robot Collaboration in Food packing
Demonstrator 1: Human-Robot Collaboration in Food packing

BEinCPPS | Business Experiments in Cyber Physical Production Systems

11-01-2015

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31-10-2018

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ICT performance characteristics
Interoperability (ICT)
Results:
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
Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality
Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality
General interoperability framework
Integration level interoperability
Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols
Results:
Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality
Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality
OPC UA, NGSI
IEEE 802.1 TSN
Results:
Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality
Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality
IEC 61499 series - Function blocks
Data/object model interoperability - Data exchange formats - APIs
Results:
Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality
Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality
OPC UA Address Space for Testing Stations
Semantic/information interoperability
Results:
Rhône-Alpes Champion: The Smart Mold
Rhône-Alpes Champion: The Smart Mold
All the information is stored in a single context in the Orion Context Broker.
IEC 61499 series - Function blocks
OPC-UA
Results:
Rhône-Alpes Champion: The Smart Mold
Rhône-Alpes Champion: The Smart Mold
Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality
Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality
Industrial Reference ICT Architectures
Reference Architectural Model Industrie 4.0 (RAMI 4.0)
RAMI 4.0 Vertical Axis and associated standards
Function Layer (RAMI 4.0)
IEC 61499 series - Function blocks
Information Layer (RAMI 4.0)
IEC 61499 series - Function blocks
Communication Layer (RAMI 4.0)
IEC 61499 series - Function blocks
RAMI 4.0 Hierarchy Axis
Field Device
Results:
Rhône-Alpes Champion: The Smart Mold
Rhône-Alpes Champion: The Smart Mold
The experiment involves the "CPS-ization" of a mechanical piece of equipment used in the plastic injection process: the mold. It will be enabled with sensors to capture the physical properties relevant during the injection process, mainly temperature and pressure. In certain variations of the smart mold, it will also drive electrical actuators to perform in-mold mechanical movements, such as piece ejection or product version-switching. Sensors: -Temperature: MIKROELEKTRONIKA Thermocouple Type-K Glass Braid Insulated -Pressure: KISTLER 6190C Actuators: -Stepper motor: SM2863-5155
Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality
Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality
On the Field level is deployed Whirlpool-specific hardware (Controller and Actuator boards) and software (the Test Executor) that are directly connected to the Product under test.
Work station
Results:
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.
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.
Enterprise - Factory
Results:
Rhône-Alpes Champion: The Smart Mold
Rhône-Alpes Champion: The Smart Mold
The smart mold publishes data to a production manager workstation, which in the context of a factory gathers all the data from all the work cells i.e. injection presses and provided an enterprise-level view of the deployed molds in production.
Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality
Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality
Offline analysis of historical Product testing results can be used to identify inefficiencies of production processes across the Enterprise.
Connected Enterprises - Factories
Results:
Rhône-Alpes Champion: The Smart Mold
Rhône-Alpes Champion: The Smart Mold
The Smart Mold, as a true cyber-physical system, publishes data through a cloud infrastructure. In this cloud space, different applications are made available: -Visualization dashboards through widgets, to allow real-time visualization of production data -Data persistence: Store the physical data acquired by the sensors to enable historical analysis -Integration with information systems (ERP/MES): To trigger mainteinance operations for the mold when these are required
Product
Results:
Rhône-Alpes Champion: The Smart Mold
Rhône-Alpes Champion: The Smart Mold
The plastic pieces as a result of the injection process.
Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality
Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality
The system is applied to whole Product items as they leave the assembly line.

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

11-01-2015

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31-10-2018

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

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

11-01-2015

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30-04-2020

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ICT performance characteristics
Interoperability (ICT)
General interoperability framework
Application level interoperability
Modular Design and Deployment Approaches
Comment: HORSE is an open platform where heterogeneous robots and other automation equipment, as well as new software modules can be integrated via OSGi and managed.
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
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