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ADVENTURE | ADaptive Virtual ENterprise ManufacTURing Environment

01-09-2011

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31-08-2014

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 ADVENTURE Process Optimization Result description A constraint in this vein may be expressed by the requirement not to exceed a certain threshold, e.g., delivery time.
 RP 6.9 On-demand manufacturing of customer-centric products Taxon description needs are pushing in particular for fast product/service systems able to combine rapid and flexible production capabilities with enhanced product design capabilities and exploit minimal distribution lead-times

EPES | ECO-PROCESS ENGINEERING SYSTEM FOR COMPOSITION OF SERVICESTO OPTIMIZE PRODUCT LIFE-CYCLE

01-09-2011

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28-02-2015

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Description Static, isolated systems generally in use cannot react fast and flexibly enough, as there are no appropriate services for capturing knowledge and putting it to practical use in relevant time.
 Business Case 1: Windmill Maintenance Engineering Result description The final EPES solution will allow TAMOIN to achieve an important leap forward increasing the ratio of wind farms served, improving the maintenance efficiency (reducing maintenance average times), and
 RP 3.2 Intelligent maintenance systems for increased reliability of production systems Taxon description maintenance systems based on condition prediction mechanisms, RUL (Remaining Useful Life) estimation, and analysis of machines’ behaviour, operational parameters, and self-learning capabilities will lead

FOFDATION | The Foundation for the Smart Factory of the Future

01-06-2010

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31-05-2014

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Description • Reduction of time-to-market costs and costs related to resource diagnosis-maintenance through a common control and monitoring platform.
 EDM machining time estimator and surface quality monitoring Result title EDM machining time estimator and surface quality monitoring Result acronym EDM machining time estimator and surface quality monitoring
 IMPACT Production Line Scheduler Result description Motivation/need, application area This solution will lead to reduced time and cost for production line planning, more efficient in terms of cost and time production scheduling solutions.
 System modelling - digital twins, simulation Taxon description The model represents the system itself, whereas the simulation represents the operation of the system over time.

GLONET | Glocal enterprise network focusing on customer-centric collaboration

01-09-2011

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31-08-2014

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Description (iii) provide these services through the cloud, to be available to anybody, at any time, from anywhere.
 GloNet system as a whole Result description The GloNet system provides needed services through the cloud, to be available to anybody, at any time, from anywhere.
 RP 4.6 Collaborative Demand and Supply Planning, Traceability, and Execution Taxon description Furthermore, supply network planning and execution would lead to the assessment of supplier performance and identification of bottlenecks in the networks.

IFACOM | Intelligent Fault Correction and self Optimizing Manufacturing systems

01-11-2011

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30-04-2015

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 Measurement and quasi real-time compensation of machine tool geometric errors Result title Measurement and quasi real-time compensation of machine tool geometric errors
 GKN DEMO Result description These conditions lead to the requirement for the robot orientation to be defined in real-time for every step of the operation. For this, the welding robot uses a laser distance sensor.
 Domain 3: Digital, virtual and resource-efficient factories Taxon description The set of research priorities under this domain focuses on factory design, data collection and management, operation and planning, from real-time to long term optimisation approaches.

LINKEDDESIGN | Linked Knowledge in Manufacturing, Engineering and Design for Next-Generation Production

01-09-2011

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31-08-2015

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Description mAnufacturing Platform (LEAP) as an integrated information system for manufacturing design that federates all relevant product lifecycle information, independent of its format, location, originator, and time
Comments technologies Parts of the demonstrator "Metrology-driven Manufacturing in the Automobile Industry" namly the Dasthboard are meant to give an overview over the current production performance and the real time
 RP 4.6 Collaborative Demand and Supply Planning, Traceability, and Execution Taxon description Furthermore, supply network planning and execution would lead to the assessment of supplier performance and identification of bottlenecks in the networks.

KAP | Knowledge, Awareness and Prediction of Man, Machine, Material and Method in Manufacturing

01-09-2010

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31-08-2013

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Description Techniques such as complex event processing and data stream analysis will compute these indicators on-the-fly to provide effective real-time monitoring.
 Requirements and State of the Art for Monitoring, Analysis, and Mining of Event Streams Result description In this document, we discuss the requirements in terms of real-time monitoring, analysis, and mining of streaming data in the context of KAP.
 RP 3.4 Energy monitoring and management in future manufacturing enterprises Taxon description The development of software-based decision-support systems as well as consumption monitoring and planning systems will lead to overall reduced energy consumption, more efficient utilization and optimized

IMAGINE | Innovative End-to-end Management of Dynamic Manufacturing Networks

01-09-2011

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31-12-2014

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Description , increase production and improve on-time delivery rates while enabling SMEs to participate in the design and production of new generation applications.
 IMAGINE Dynamic Manufacturing Network Platform Result description It serves as the main repository of execution time information such as KPIs and processes’ status.
 RP 4.6 Collaborative Demand and Supply Planning, Traceability, and Execution Taxon description Furthermore, supply network planning and execution would lead to the assessment of supplier performance and identification of bottlenecks in the networks.

LOCOBOT | Toolkit for building low cost robot co-workers in assembly lines

01-08-2010

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31-07-2013

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Description This will be 10 times as much in the following years, depending on how the production numbers of the e-vehicle evolve.
 RP 2.3 Symbiotic Safe and Productive human robot interaction, professional Service Robots and Multimodal Human-Machine-Robot Collaboration Taxon description reasoning, self-learning and decision-making capabilities for these smart and autonomous robots interacting with other robots, with machinery and with human workers as well as distributed embedded real-time

QCOALA | Quality Control of Aluminium Laser-welded Assemblies

01-09-2010

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31-08-2013

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Description Real-time temporal pulse control will be developed to allow close-loop control of the monitored process.
Comments TEAM - Management focus Success Factors Consortium, project team and general project management (TEAM) This aspect was fundamental to progress with activities, coordinate them and meet the timescales of
 Green-Mix dual wavelength laser system Result description Innovation: Single laser source capable to deliver Green and IR wavelength at the same time. Proportion of Green and IR radiation is set online via pulse shaping.
 RP 1.2 Advanced joining technologies for advanced and multi-materials Taxon description Alternatively, joining with its introduction of heat, other materials or geometrical changes, can lead to loss of performance, thus cause-effect relationships and materials process interactions need to

RLW NAVIGATOR | Remote Laser Welding System Navigator for Eco & Resilient Automotive Factories

01-01-2012

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31-12-2014

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Description RLW is emerging as a promising joining technology for sheet metal assembly due to a number of benefits including reduced processing time (50-75%), decreased factory floor footprint (50%), reduced environmental
 RP 3.13 Integration of design methods and tools Taxon description This integration, combined with an highly educated engineering force, will lead to innovation in rapid machine and system engineering, thus increasing the worldwide European competitiveness in manufacturing

ROBOFOOT | Smart robotics for high added value footwear industry

01-09-2010

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28-02-2013

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Description Introducing robots into the footwear industry will help overcome current complexities in process automation, which sometimes lead to shorter than necessary production runs.
 RP 5.11 Demonstrating smart factories that attract people Taxon description This will lead to a new look at the people in the production systems and it will inevitably address the field of what is a system architecture supporting such interactions.

APPS4AME | Engineering Apps for advanced Manufacturing Engineering

01-12-2012

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30-11-2015

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 Delivery Time Estimation App Result title Delivery Time Estimation App Result description ETO products in order to produce a lead time estimation
 Domain 3: Digital, virtual and resource-efficient factories Taxon description The set of research priorities under this domain focuses on factory design, data collection and management, operation and planning, from real-time to long term optimisation approaches.

DES-MOLD | Feature-Based Design and Modelling for Injection-molding Optimization

01-09-2012

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31-08-2015

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Description Des-MOLD will uses as a main source, past empirical industrial experiences and simulation data to optimize, at the design time, the geometries of the pieces and moulds according to the desired features
Comments , the geometries of the pieces according to the desired features, and to the expected process control variables that will be monitored during production time.
 RP 3.13 Integration of design methods and tools Taxon description This integration, combined with an highly educated engineering force, will lead to innovation in rapid machine and system engineering, thus increasing the worldwide European competitiveness in manufacturing
 Customised products Comments , the geometries of the pieces according to the desired features, and to the expected process control variables that will be monitored during production time.

DAPHNE | Development of adaptive ProductioN systems for Eco-efficient firing processes

01-10-2012

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30-09-2015

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Description integrated solutions for energy intensive processes (ceramics, cement and glass), based on tuning micro-wave technologies to the material characteristics and on intelligent control systems, to provide real time
 RP 3.4 Energy monitoring and management in future manufacturing enterprises Taxon description The development of software-based decision-support systems as well as consumption monitoring and planning systems will lead to overall reduced energy consumption, more efficient utilization and optimized

ARUM | Adaptive Production Management

01-09-2012

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30-09-2015

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Description The predictive mode supports the planning phase whereas the real-time operations mode supports dynamic, time-, cost- and risk-oriented re-planning of operations.
 RP 3.4 Energy monitoring and management in future manufacturing enterprises Taxon description The development of software-based decision-support systems as well as consumption monitoring and planning systems will lead to overall reduced energy consumption, more efficient utilization and optimized

SKILLPRO | Skill-based Propagation of Plug&Produce-Devices in Reconfigurable Production Systems by AML

01-10-2012

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30-09-2015

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Description However, while the "Plug&Produce" paradigm has contributed greatly towards reducing commissioning effort and ramp-up time for new components, it has been too focussed on solving interoperability
 AutomationML and OPC UA Result description Due to the constant promotion and discussion the idea of combining OPC-UA and AutomationML lead to a new group in the OPC-UA consortium for defining and further developing AutomationML as companion standard
 RP 6.9 On-demand manufacturing of customer-centric products Taxon description needs are pushing in particular for fast product/service systems able to combine rapid and flexible production capabilities with enhanced product design capabilities and exploit minimal distribution lead-times

MEGAROB | Development of flexible, sustainable and automated platform for high accuracy manufacturing operations in medium and large complex components using spherical robot and laser tracker on overhead crane

01-11-2012

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31-10-2015

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Comments non-destructive inspection methods MIE Consultation 2020 (Closed) Specific Objective 1: Excellent, responsive and smart factories & supply chains R&I Objective 1.3: Scalable, reconfigurable and flexible first-time
 Small robotic cell with Real Time Position Correction Result title Small robotic cell with Real Time Position Correction Result description Robotic multipurpose cell with real time position correction that is working in CSEM facilities, one of the parters of MEGAROB Project.
 RP 2.1 Flexible and reconfigurable Machinery and Robots Taxon description energy resources consumed in these reconfigurable systems together with their self-adjustment, correction, and control as well as the networking among them, aiming at a significant impact of changeover time

IMAIN | A Novel Decision Support System for Intelligent Maintenance

01-09-2012

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31-08-2015

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 New generation of IT based press equipment Result description Development of a new generation of IT based press equipment and service with increased life time and energy consumption
 RP 3.2 Intelligent maintenance systems for increased reliability of production systems Taxon description maintenance systems based on condition prediction mechanisms, RUL (Remaining Useful Life) estimation, and analysis of machines’ behaviour, operational parameters, and self-learning capabilities will lead

FIBREMAP | Automatic Mapping of Fibre Orientation for Draping of Carbon Fibre Parts

01-09-2013

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31-08-2016

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Description The project aims at shortening process development times by 90% and allowing automatic 100% quality control of fibre orientation.
Comments non-destructive inspection methods MIE Consultation 2020 (Closed) Specific Objective 1: Excellent, responsive and smart factories & supply chains R&I Objective 1.3: Scalable, reconfigurable and flexible first-time
 RP 1.3 Automated production of thermoset and thermoplastic composite structures/products Taxon description Alternatively, joining with its introduction of heat, other materials or geometrical changes, can lead to loss of performance, thus cause-effect relationships and materials process interactions need to

ECOGEL CRONOS | High productivity manufacturing process of composite parts based on zero emissions fast curing coatings and heated moulds

01-09-2013

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31-08-2016

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 Case Study: Bentley Result description The primary objective was to develop a technological solution that would lead to mass reduction (as will be required by the 2020 EU C02 emissions targets) ideally without incurring a cost penalty and preferably
 RP 1.3 Automated production of thermoset and thermoplastic composite structures/products Taxon description Alternatively, joining with its introduction of heat, other materials or geometrical changes, can lead to loss of performance, thus cause-effect relationships and materials process interactions need to

SELSUS | Health Monitoring and Life-Long Capability Management for SELf-SUStaining Manufacturing Systems

01-09-2013

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31-08-2017

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Description The vision of SelSus is to create a new paradigm for highly effective, self-healing production resources and systems to maximise their performance over longer life times through highly targeted and timely
 Domain 3: Digital, virtual and resource-efficient factories Taxon description The set of research priorities under this domain focuses on factory design, data collection and management, operation and planning, from real-time to long term optimisation approaches.

COMET | Plug-and-produce COmponents and METhods for adaptive control of industrial robots enabling cost effective, high precision manufacturing in factories of the future

01-09-2010

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28-02-2013

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Description From a conceptual point of view, industrial robot technology could provide an excellent base for machining being both flexible (due to their lay-out) and cost efficient (robots cost 2-5 times less then
 Programming and simulation platform for industrial robots Result description The demonstrator developed in the project is taken to the market by lead partner Delcam as the PowerMILL Robot Interface, which is an add-on to the existing Delcam software PowerMILL.
 System modelling - digital twins, simulation Taxon description The model represents the system itself, whereas the simulation represents the operation of the system over time.

BIVEE | Business Innovation and Virtual Enterprise Environment -

01-09-2011

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31-12-2014

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Description Effective innovation needs to be aware of what is going on inside the VE at the production level and at the same time outside of it, where a plethora of elements move fast and often unexpectedly (e.g.
 RP 4.6 Collaborative Demand and Supply Planning, Traceability, and Execution Taxon description Furthermore, supply network planning and execution would lead to the assessment of supplier performance and identification of bottlenecks in the networks.
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