EFFRA Innovation Portal

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 services work mainly with machine data while the platform uses all type of file extensions (dwg, pdf,..) and text.

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

Rhône-Alpes Champion: The Smart Mold

OPC-UA for M2M communication, and NGSI for data publishing on the cloud

Result items:

Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality

OPC UA Address Space for Testing Stations

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: Open published API for 3rd party extensions. Intelligent support for business negotiation. Mainly driven by UBL documents connected to defined business processes; NIMBLE OpenAPI

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

Comment: Digital Factory Models’ instances will gather data in a common format. It is based on well-known standards such as BPMN, B2MML, gbXML and OGC. They are based XML and JSON syntax and provide a high level of simplicity, extensibility, interoperability and openness.

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.

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CPS Data Model Architecture - M24 release

Comment: AutomationML, SenseML, OPC UA.

Comment: The system blueprint is the FAR-EDGE RA. After having defined the requirements and the constraints for each block of the RA, a thorough analysis of the SotA has been done, which led to the identification of some existing software components meeting the specs. We then identified the gaps that the project will need to fill-in: not surprisingly, these where all the key enabling technologies, like the distributed ledger. However, hardly anything is going to be built totally from scratch in FAR-EDGE. The distributed ledger, for example, will be a customization of a generic, open source Blockchain platform (Hyperledger Fabric). Following the high-level functional decomposition defined in the FAR-EDGE RA, three Open APIs will be exposed by the Cloud layer of the FAR-EDGE Platform: Automation, Virtualization and Analytics. Automation will provide endpoints to monitor, control and manage automation workflows deployed on the Edge layer. Virtualization will create hooks for external simulation tools that need to read and manage factory models deployed on the Cloud layer (that are kept in-sync with the real world by the lower layers). Analytics will allow to manage distributed data analysis processes running on the Edge layer, and to collect aggregated results.

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: Gateway (interfaces with external applications, built on top of middleware.

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

Comment:

The data exchange format throughout the project's components was JSON. JSON lightweight, easy for humans to read and write it and provides all relevant information in a formatted way. It is also easy to change to include further fields when necessary or to be restructured for other components. XML was also used as data exchange format. XML also has the same characteristics with JSON in regards to easiness and accessibility. An example of one of the JSON formats used the project is given below to describe the prediction outputs:

SCOTT | Secure COnnected Trustable Things

01-05-2017

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31-10-2020

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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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Comment:

ISO 10303

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: Cross-cutting

Details: JSON

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: Digital twin, application run-time (sdaim), inter-platform interoperability (sdaim), data acquisition, services and message bus, ai-analytics designer, ai-analytics runtime, marketplace, storage, human collaboration

Details: Messaging, message Exchange

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

BEinCPPS | Business Experiments in Cyber Physical Production Systems

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

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

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

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

DIGICOR | Decentralised Agile Coordination Across Supply Chains

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

SCOTT | Secure COnnected Trustable Things

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

QU4LITY | Digital Reality in Zero Defect Manufacturing

ZDMP | Zero Defect Manufacturing Platform