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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

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.

SatisFactory | A collaborative and augmented-enabled ecosystem for increasing SATISfaction and working experience in smart FACTORY environments

01-01-2015

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31-12-2017

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Middleware + Ontology Management

ReCaM | Rapid Reconfiguration of Flexible Production Systems through Capability-based Adaptation, Auto-configuration and Integrated tools for Production Planning

11-01-2015

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31-10-2018

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Result items:

Capability catalogue

INCLUSIVE | Smart and adaptive interfaces for INCLUSIVE work environment

01-10-2016

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30-09-2019

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Z-Fact0r | Zero-defect manufacturing strategies towards on-line production management for European factories

01-10-2016

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31-03-2020

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Comment:

Data communication between components is essential for the project. End users create data on their shop floor with embedded sensors on the machines, new integrated sensors developed for the project. All these data is propagated in the system with data communication protocols, such as HTTP and AMQP, creating a data stream process in the system. Interoperability between the data communication protocolos and brockers is crucial for a successful result of the data communication of the system. Various data sources work together and use different communication protocols. As a result, all these components and protocols should seamlessly work and their interoperability is what helps them. A message brocker was developed for the project, based on AMQP for data communication. In the initial phases of the project, there were also RESTful APIs that helped in the initial development of the components.

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The Incremental Integration Strategy (IIS) provides a unified framework for all the EU distributed partners, to work on common principles. By following the IIS, we try to ensure that the integration will be successfully executed in a timely manner. It defines a number of factors to monitor and steps to execute.

The IIS manifests that the components are integrated and tested incrementally and tested to ensure smooth interaction among them. Every component is combined incrementally, i.e., one by one till all components are integrated logically to make the required application, instead of integrating the whole system at once and then performing testing on the end product. Integrated components are tested as a group to ensure successful integration and data flow between components. The process is repeated until all components are combined and tested successfully. The tests included in the IIS are:

Load test
Stress test
Spike test
Endurance test
Scalability test
Volume test

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Semantic interoperability is desired in the project. An ontology was created to describe all the entities participating in the project components, system, communication protocols as well as the entities given by the end users. The Context Aware algorithm was based on this ontology to create the operation rules for the system. The algorithm provided the essential information to other components about the implementation of the solution. For example, the Context Aware algorithm provided the Reverse Supply Chain with all the necessary information about the production line, the production stages, the return levels and then the RSC was able to create a set of rules to implemented by the end user.

vf-OS | Virtual Factory Open Operating System

01-10-2016

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31-10-2019

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Comment: The vf-OS publish-subscribe middleware will provide the data infrastructure and will be fully compatible with major industry standards (i.e. JBI, SCA, BPEL or WSDL). IO Toolkit to implement connectors to devices or business software and specific implementations for OPC UA and MQTT. Other standards as ANSI/ISA-95 will be followed.

Result items:

vfOS - ID5.3a - Data Harmonisation(M18)

THOMAS | Mobile dual arm robotic workers with embedded cognition for hybrid and dynamically reconfigurable manufacturing systems

01-10-2016

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31-03-2021

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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.

Comment: B2B collaboration: Semantic annotation of products and services. Business process design and execution. Open ontologies. UBL for business processes, eClass for products, domain specific ontologies aligned via light-weight upper ontology

SCOTT | Secure COnnected Trustable Things

01-05-2017

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31-10-2020

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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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Comment:

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

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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Daedalus | Distributed control and simulAtion platform to support an Ecosystem of DigitAL aUtomation developerS

01-10-2016

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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

Comment: IEC-61499 established both a programming language and the rules for open communication protocols for real-time control over distributed applications. Interaction between non real-time and real-time IIoT could be guaranteed through the standard.

Comment: Orchestration development framework. IEC 61499: Supervised orchestration of distributed devices. Daedalus: SDK to design optimal distributed control solutions

Result items:

Next generation of IEC-61499 automation tool-chain

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.

Result items:

D4.3a AUTOWARE Open CPPS ecosystem development

DIGICOR | Decentralised Agile Coordination Across Supply Chains

01-10-2016

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30-09-2019

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Comment: External applications can communicate with OPC-UA based middleware (subject to authentication etc) to ingest data e.g. from factories

Comment: The communication middleware in the DIGICOR platform will be based on OPC-UA standard. In order to facilitate the flow of data to and from the middleware, the project will develop Data (harmonisation and transformation) Maps. The Data Maps will be offered as microservices to address the semantic and syntactic interoperability issues. In addition, standardised service interfaces will be defined to allow the discovery and enactment of services within the DIGICOR Platform.

Result items:

D5.10 DIGICOR Data Models Implementation

Result items:

D5.8: Data access API & Reference data store (Final Release)

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.

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Ontology-based data integration is part of the Z-BRE4K solution. Ontology effectively combines data and/or information from multiple heterogeneous sources. The ontology semantics used by SPL program is described through OWL. OWL follows the RDF syntax, so SPARQL is suitable for seamlessly querying the ontology defined by OWL. SPARQL will be used as the transformation language for converting Semantic data to corresponding syntax data. IDS connectors are used in Z-BRE4K to guarantee the interoperability among the various components that are not part of the Industrial Data Space. Part of connectors functionality is to transform data to/from NGSI format data in order to be shared by the ORION context broker.

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Z-BRE4K ontology contains information about all Z-BRE4K relevant data (metadata), linked in a way described by a controlled, shared vocabulary. The data relationships are part of the data itself, in one self-describing information package that is independent of any information system. In simple terms, this means that data from various sources can be easily harmonised. The shared vocabulary, and its associated links to an ontology, provide the foundation and the capabilities of machine interpretation, inference, and logic.

KYKLOS 4.0 | An Advanced Circular and Agile Manufacturing Ecosystem based on rapid reconfigurable manufacturing process and individualized consumer preferences

01-01-2020

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31-12-2023

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UPTIME | UNIFIED PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE SYSTEM

01-09-2017

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28-02-2021

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Comment:

Open Platform Communication Unified Architecture (OPC-UA) is considered for UPTIME platform and for modular edge data collection and diagnosis of UPTIME_SENSE component.

QU4LITY | Digital Reality in Zero Defect Manufacturing

01-01-2019

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31-07-2022

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Result items:

Connectivity Technologies for Autonomous Quality (Version 1)

D2.11 Reference Architecture and Blueprints (Version 1)

Library of Integrated, Interoperable Digital Enablers (Version 1)

Standards Compliance and Interoperability Specification (Final version)

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: IoT Automation Services

Details: Production system engineering; process quality and optimisation designer; distributed industrial-process measurement and control systems

ZDMP | Zero Defect Manufacturing Platform

01-01-2019

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30-06-2023

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Comment: Associated to ZDMP Reference Architecture: Process quality and optimisation designer

Details: IoT/Device Integration

SeCoIIA | Secure Collaborative Intelligent Industrial Assets

01-12-2019

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31-05-2022

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Result items:

Experimental Remote Attestation over OPC UA Protocol

FA3D | Future Automated Aerospace Assembly Demonstrator Project

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Manufacturing Service Buses for Data Interoperability

ATS Bus - Enabled a single, common service bus for data exchange between the PLCs and other high level components of the system, including a SCADA system. Used a broker-based publish-subscribe approach to decouple the physical sources and destinations of the data to facilitate reconfigurability.

Nservicebus - The underlying technology which enabled the ATS Bus to exchange data.

OPC UA (Kepware) – Many devices could not interface directly with the service bus, so OPC UA was used to extract data and publish it to the service bus.

Metrology-integrated Robotics

Result items:

Manufacturing Service Buses for Data Interoperability

OPC UA (Kepware) – Many devices could not interface directly with the service bus, so OPC UA was used to extract data and publish it to the service bus.

FA3D2 | Future Automated aerospace Assembly Demonstrator project: Phase 2

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Result items:

Integrated Artificial Intelligence

Reconfigurable assembly systems

Virtual commissioning

Result items:

Virtual commissioning

Used as the primary date exchange method for the demonstrator. Links items on the shop floor to the SCADA.

VIEWS | Validation and Integration of Manufacturing Enablers for Future Wing Structures

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Result items:

Manufacturing Service Buses for Data Interoperability

ATS Bus - Enabled a single, common service bus for data exchange between the PLCs and other high level components of the system, including a SCADA system. Used a broker-based publish-subscribe approach to decouple the physical sources and destinations of the data to facilitate reconfigurability.

Nservicebus - The underlying technology which enabled the ATS Bus to exchange data.

OPC UA (Kepware) – Many devices could not interface directly with the service bus, so OPC UA was used to extract data and publish it to the service bus.

Metrology-integrated Robotics

Result items:

Manufacturing Service Buses for Data Interoperability

OPC UA (Kepware) – Many devices could not interface directly with the service bus, so OPC UA was used to extract data and publish it to the service bus.