Projects overview
FACTS4WORKERS | Worker-Centric Workplaces in Smart Factories
01-12-2014
-01-12-2018
PREVIEW | PREdictiVe system to recommend Injection mold sEtup in Wireless sensor networks
01-01-2015
-01-01-2018
TWIN-CONTROL | Twin-model based virtual manufacturing for machine tool-process simulation and control
10-01-2015
-30-09-2018
COMPOSITION | Ecosystem for Collaborative Manufacturing Processes _ Intra- and Interfactory Integration and Automation
01-09-2016
-31-08-2019
Daedalus | Distributed control and simulAtion platform to support an Ecosystem of DigitAL aUtomation developerS
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
AUTOWARE | Wireless Autonomous, Reliable and Resilient ProductIon Operation ARchitecture for Cognitive Manufacturing
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
Z-Fact0r | Zero-defect manufacturing strategies towards on-line production management for European factories
01-10-2016
-31-03-2020
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.
Z-Fact0r components were developed by different technical providing partners as mostly standalone components. The result was that on each shop floor worked many different components individually. An interoperability level was necessary for the Z-Fact0r system to be a solution to work as a whole. Various integration processes and extensive planning took place during the project and created an integrated system as a final product. The interoperability between the components was the first essential characteristic for the integration process. The components were desinged in the system, in a way that allowed them to operate together without conflicts during data streaming and operation.
The Z-Fac0r project followed the AMQP and MQTT protocols for the communication between the components. A message brocker was develope by HOLONIX and was called iLike. The iLike implemented the publish/subscribe mechanism for all components which connected to it. The components were authorised in the iLike brocker and repository with a Bearer Token and then used the mechanism to publish or receive the data. An open API was used to create REST GET calls in order to initiate the communicatio between the component and the brocker. The communication steps between the component and the brocker were:
- GET call by the component to initiate communication
- The component is authenticated by the iLike machine
- The iLike machine appoints the respective topics for the components to publish or subscribe to them
- A component published data to a topic and another subcribes to the topic to receive the data
The data from the iLike machines are sent into the cloud to a broker using MQTT protocol (a lightweight protocol that transports messages between devices), it stores the data as messages, so the subscribers can get the values.
MQTT broker can easily scale from a single device to thousands, manage and tracks all client connection state and permit secure connections.
Wireless communication of the Z-Fact0r solution was based on Wi - Fi protocol.
vf-OS | Virtual Factory Open Operating System
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
SAFIRE | Cloud-based Situational Analysis for Factories providing Real-time Reconfiguration Services
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
FAR-EDGE | Factory Automation Edge Computing Operating System Reference Implementation
01-10-2016
-30-10-2019
DIGICOR | Decentralised Agile Coordination Across Supply Chains
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
INCLUSIVE | Smart and adaptive interfaces for INCLUSIVE work environment
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
NIMBLE | Collaboration Network for Industry, Manufacturing, Business and Logistics in Europe
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
5G-Ensure | 5G Enablers for Network and System Security and Resilience
01-11-2015
-31-10-2017
UPTIME | UNIFIED PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE SYSTEM
01-09-2017
-31-08-2020
PreCoM | Predictive Cognitive Maintenance Decision Support System
01-11-2017
-31-10-2020
SCOTT | Secure COnnected Trustable Things
01-05-2017
-31-10-2020
QU4LITY | Digital Reality in Zero Defect Manufacturing
01-01-2019
-31-07-2022
Details: Connectivity requirements: Specifications (models) for low-data-rate wireless connectivity with fixed, portable, and moving devices with no battery or very limited battery consumption requirements
5G-TIMBER | Secure 5G-Enabled Twin Transition for Europe's TIMBER Industry Sector
01-06-2022
-31-05-2025
INFLATE protocol