IMPROVE | Innovative Modeling Approaches for Production Systems to raise validatable efficiency
09-01-2015
-31-08-2018
09-01-2015
-31-08-2018
10-01-2015
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01-09-2016
-31-08-2019
Requirements of modern production processes stress the need for greater agility and flexibility, for faster production cycles, increased productivity, less waste and more sustainable production. Human-machine interaction is put in the center, supporting the decision making process.
Investigation of advanced HMIs for direct interaction with real-world objects. Consideration of mobile user interfaces that allow accessing crucial immediate information everywhere in the factory. Consideration will also be given to data gathering from ultra low power IoT devices such as wireless sensors where data can then be aggregated and visualised at an appropriate HMI interface. Where possible provision for self-powering these IoT devices using energy harvesting will be taken into account in order to avoid battery replacement. Flexible and dynamic data-driven solutions that can be adapted to different environments and needs.
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
Included technologies:
- Multimodal interaction mechanisms of workers with automation (voice and gestures).
- Augmented Reality interfaces for assistance and guiding
The A4BLUE framework introduces new ways of interacting with automation mechanisms (specifically, with robots) thorugh natural speaking and gestures.
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
Some of the functional modules of COROMA taks care off the interaction with humans:
01-09-2016
-31-08-2019
CloudBoard: offers multiple views and access rights to different human actors Decision Support Toolkit: supports decisions authorised by humans, especially in the shop floor Enterprise and Factory models: accessible and re-configurable through user interaction
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
Decision support systems
01-01-2017
-30-06-2020
01-05-2015
-31-07-2018
One of the objectives of the MANTIS project is to design and develop the human-machine interface (HMI) to deal with the intelligent optimisation of the production processes through the monitoring and management of its components. MANTIS HMI should allow intelligent, context-aware human-machine interaction by providing the right information, in the right modality and in the best way for users when needed. To achieve this goal, the user interface should be highly personalised and adapted to each specific user or user role. Since MANTIS comprises eleven distinct use cases, the design of such HMI presents a great challenge. Any unification of the HMI design may impose the constraints that could result in the HMI with a poor usability.
01-11-2015
-31-10-2017
Interaction with mobile, wireless smart devices
01-09-2017
-31-08-2020
UPTIME will reframe predictive maintenance strategy in a systematic and unified way with the aim to fully exploit the advancements in ICT and maintenance management by examining the potential of big data in an e-maintenance infrastructure taking into account the Gartner’s four levels of data analytics maturity and the
proactive computing principles.
UPTIME_VISUALIZE (extended version of SeaBAR prototype) component is responsible for the intuitive and uninterrupted human-machine interaction. The user interfaces, including the analytics dashboards and the notificaiton engine, will be customised or further developed in full accordance with the end-user business case. Taking an example ofthe UPTIME White Good business case for complex automatic production line to produce drums for dryer, the generation of early warnings to suggest autonomous activities to factory workers should be communicated through mobile devices or on-board devices.
The data visualisation in UPTIME is performed by the UPTIME_VISUALIZE (SeaBAR prototype) component:
01-11-2017
-31-10-2020
01-10-2017
-31-03-2021
01-10-2017
-31-03-2021
The Z-Break solution uses a variety of communication protocols. HTTP, OPC-UA, IEEE 802.15.4e and IEC WirelessHART. The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web. OPC UA supports two protocols. The binary protocol is opc.tcp://Server and http://Server is for Web Service. Otherwise OPC UA works completely transparent to the API. IEEE 802.15.4 is a technical standard which defines the operation of low-rate wireless personal area networks (LR-WPANs). It specifies the physical layer and media access control for LR-WPANs, and is maintained by the IEEE 802.15 working group, which defined the standard in 2003. WirelessHART is a wireless sensor networking technology based on the Highway Addressable Remote Transducer Protocol (HART). Developed as a multi-vendor, interoperable wireless standard, WirelessHART was defined for the requirements of process field device networks. Also, it uses the NGSI protocol. NGSI is a protocol developed to manage Context Information. It provides operations like managing the context information about context entities, for example the lifetime and quality of information and access (query, subscribe/notify) to the available context Information about context Entities.
The UI’s goal is to visualize data from maintainers and components statuses (real time data and relevant KPIs). The SPARQL Web service is used to send custom SPARQL queries against the Semantic Framework RDF repository as a general-purpose querying web service. The UI can visualise the probability of breakdown and RUL. CAD and CAE models would be useful in mapping these values into a 3D visualisation.
Z-Bre4k provides a Semantic Framework as a RESTful web services API. Each request returns an HTTP status and optionally a document of result sets. Each results document can be serialized and may be expressed as RDF, pure XML or JSON. The operator input to the machine and threshold changes can be built as a UI. These parameters can be monitored directly in machine simulators. Furthermore, the dashboard application (M3 modules) will alert the shop floor operator about quality detected issues and suggests recommendations for the production adjustment and maintenance of the machine.
01-10-2018
-31-03-2022
Human-machine interface is key to evaluate Job Quality in considering Human Factors analysis and therefore is very relevant in the HR cell design phase also
01-10-2020
-30-09-2023
01-10-2020
-30-09-2023
User interfaces were designed in WinCC
User interfaces were designed in WinCC
Grafana – Used for the creation of bespoke data visualisation solutions.
Grafana – Used for the creation of bespoke data visualisation solutions.