Projects overview
PreCoM | Predictive Cognitive Maintenance Decision Support System
01-11-2017
-31-10-2020
Calltopic: FoF.2017.09
Z-Fact0r | Zero-defect manufacturing strategies towards on-line production management for European factories
01-10-2016
-31-03-2020
Calltopic: FoF.2016.03
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.
Z-Fact0r architecture was based on the modular design of the components and then the integration of the components to a complete system. For each component a specific architecture was followed by the responsible technology providing partner, base on the use cases, scenarios, end user requirements and technical requirements. The desing for each component was documented in the respective deliverable. Each component also followed the technological trends of their fields and exploited the state of the art of the field. An overall ontology of the Z-Fact0r system was created to include all possible actors, functions, assets etc. All components were initially deployed as standalone applications and then an integration plan was implemented. Z-Fact0r project followed the Incremental Integration Strategy (IIS) where the components were deployed on the shop floors and integrated as one.
NIMBLE | Collaboration Network for Industry, Manufacturing, Business and Logistics in Europe
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
Calltopic: FoF.2016.11
SAFIRE | Cloud-based Situational Analysis for Factories providing Real-time Reconfiguration Services
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
Calltopic: FoF.2016.11
THOMAS | Mobile dual arm robotic workers with embedded cognition for hybrid and dynamically reconfigurable manufacturing systems
01-10-2016
-30-09-2020
Calltopic: FoF.2016.02
FAR-EDGE | Factory Automation Edge Computing Operating System Reference Implementation
01-10-2016
-30-10-2019
Calltopic: FoF.2016.11
DIGICOR | Decentralised Agile Coordination Across Supply Chains
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
Calltopic: FoF.2016.11
COMPOSITION | Ecosystem for Collaborative Manufacturing Processes _ Intra- and Interfactory Integration and Automation
01-09-2016
-31-08-2019
Calltopic: FoF.2016.11
Daedalus | Distributed control and simulAtion platform to support an Ecosystem of DigitAL aUtomation developerS
01-10-2016
-30-09-2019
Calltopic: FoF.2016.11
HORSE | Smart integrated Robotics system for SMEs controlled by Internet of Things based on dynamic manufacturing processes
11-01-2015
-30-04-2020
Calltopic: FoF.ICT.2015.09.a_Innovation