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FORTISSIMO | Factories of the Future Resources, Technology, Infrastructure and Services for Simulation and Modelling

01-07-2013

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30-06-2016

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Description Generally, large companies, which have a greater pool of skills and resources, find access to advanced simulation easier than SMEs which can neither afford expensive High Performance Computing equipment
Comments Information and communication technologies Technologies and enablers Domain 3 - Digital, Virtual and Resource-efficient Factories Impact Workshop D3-Area 1: Cloud services and simulation, Knowledge-based
 Cloud-based simulation in the design and manufacture of camshafts Result description This will allow generating vast knowledge for both camshaft new and re-design as well as machinery engineering and maintenance.

ReconCell | A Reconfigurable robot workCell for fast set-up of automated assembly processes in SMEs

11-01-2015

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28-02-2019

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Description This requires expert knowledge and time for configuration and programming, which is too costly for them.
 Manual for programming of assembly skills and tasks Result title Manual for programming of assembly skills and tasks
 Assembly of Automotive Lights Result description Typically 8 workers are involved to realize the work in a required cycle time. The production takes place in four shifts (24/7).
 RP 2.3 Symbiotic Safe and Productive human robot interaction, professional Service Robots and Multimodal Human-Machine-Robot Collaboration Taxon description Immersive and symbiotic collaboration between human workers and robots leads to a more efficient and flexible manufacturing environment.

UPTIME | UNIFIED PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE SYSTEM

01-09-2017

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31-08-2020

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Comments Companies need definitely to close the “skills” gaps and there are different strategies applicable: train Process Experts on data science; train
 Whirlpool use case: Drum Dryer Production Line Result description UPTIME mobile application is available to be used by the factory workers to see generated maintenance recommendations and decide on maintenance actions.
 Advanced and ubiquitous human machine interaction Taxon description humans through ubiquity of mobile devices will enable users to receive relevant production and enterprise-specific information regardless of their geographical location and tailored to the context and the skills
 Lessons learned Comments Companies need definitely to close the “skills” gaps and there are different strategies applicable: train Process Experts on data science; train

IMPROVE | Innovative Modeling Approaches for Production Systems to raise validatable efficiency

09-01-2015

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31-08-2018

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Description Learned models will be complemented with expert knowledge because models cannot learn completely. This will ensure and establish a cheap and accurate model creation instead of manual modelling.
Comments Learned models can be created using only data and little to no expert knowledge is required depending on the technology.
 Framework for operator knowledge collection Result title Framework for operator knowledge collection Result description Framework for operator knowledge collection
 RP 2.10 Adaptive Process Automation and Control for a sensing shop floor Taxon description These systems should include software capable of monitoring KPIs and lifecycle parameters as well as data processing and data-mining technologies capable of extracting the knowledge and model of machine
 System modelling - digital twins, simulation Comments Learned models can be created using only data and little to no expert knowledge is required depending on the technology.

IFACOM | Intelligent Fault Correction and self Optimizing Manufacturing systems

01-11-2011

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30-04-2015

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Description The project has three core objectives: 1) Reach a level of excellence for a systematic body of knowledge on near zero defect manufacturing output through improved process control, and long range stability
 GKN DEMO Result description This opens up for in-depth off line long-term analysis of the assembly process using knowledge from all the different steps of machining of segments (MAS), geometry of segments (MES), differential fit

SHAREWORK | Safe and effective HumAn-Robot coopEration toWards a better cOmpetiveness on cuRrent automation lacK manufacturing processes.

01-11-2018

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31-10-2022

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Description The usability of the developed HRC solutions in different industrial sectors and company sizes will increase productivity, flexibility, and reduce human stress, to support the workers and to strengthen
 Knowledge base Result title Knowledge base Result acronym Knowledge-base
 SEAT S.A – Automotive Industrial Scenario - Operator collaborative support on assembling/disassembling car body heavy parts Result description able to detect workers and obstacles, as well as to adjust the trajectory accordingly.

CoLLaboratE | Co-production CeLL performing Human-Robot Collaborative AssEmbly

01-10-2018

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31-03-2022

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Description To this end, a framework for equipping the robots and AGV mobile platforms with basic collaboration skills, such as load sharing, human touch recognition and human intention detection, will also be developed
Comments Through flexible assembly lines, the manufacturing companies will be offered with great leverage over their innovation capacity and integration of new knowledge into their products.
 Fourier movement primitives: an approach for learning rhythmic robot skills from demonstrations Result title Fourier movement primitives: an approach for learning rhythmic robot skills from demonstrations
 Challenge 4: Collaborative riveting for aircraft parts assembly Result description This is a type of sensorial communication between the two workers which, most likely, will need to be reproduced by the robot.
 Significant innovations and achievements Comments Through flexible assembly lines, the manufacturing companies will be offered with great leverage over their innovation capacity and integration of new knowledge into their products.

AI REGIO | Regions and DIHs alliance for AI-driven digital transformation of European Manufacturing SMEs

01-10-2020

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30-09-2023

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 AI REGIO Skills Catalogue and Jobs Certification program V1 Result title AI REGIO Skills Catalogue and Jobs Certification program V1
 Testing and Experimental Facilities Network V1 Result description This report includes method to implement AI skills
 Testing and Experimental Facilities Network V2 Result description This report includes method to implement AI skills

GLONET | Glocal enterprise network focusing on customer-centric collaboration

01-09-2011

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31-08-2014

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Description In specific terms it aims to: (i) develop a novel way to commonly represent/provide information and knowledge (e.g. catalogue of products, brochures, process descriptions, best practices, company profiles
Comments Information and communication technologies Technologies and enablers Digital manufacturing platforms - data platforms Technologies and enablers Data spaces Information and communication technologies Knowledge-workers
 GloNet system as a whole Result description It further offers a novel way to commonly represent/provide information and knowledge (e.g. catalogue of products, brochures, process descriptions, best practices, company profiles, etc.), which needs
 Knowledge-workers and operators Taxon title Knowledge-workers and operators Taxon description Workers with high knowledge and skills (“knowledge workers”) will be scarce resources.

FALCON | Feedback mechanisms Across the Lifecycle for Customer-driven Optimization of iNnovative product-service design

01-01-2015

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01-01-2018

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Description Second, it will enable new mechanisms for product-service knowledge representation, exploitation, openness and diffusion.
Comments Knowledge-workers and operators Technologies and enablers System modelling - digital twins, simulation Technologies and enablers Engineering tools FALCON aims to provide methodologies and approaches
 Conceptual approach for knowledge acquisition from social media related to product usage information Result title Conceptual approach for knowledge acquisition from social media related to product usage information
 FALCON semantic concept definition document Result description The domain definition, which gathers specific concepts and knowledge, includes forward information flow, with direct relations and impacts among product lifecycle stages.
 Knowledge-workers and operators Taxon title Knowledge-workers and operators Taxon description Workers with high knowledge and skills (“knowledge workers”) will be scarce resources.

PAN-ROBOTS | Plug And Navigate ROBOTS for smart factories

01-11-2012

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31-10-2015

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Description Moreover, all the operations must be executed in a robust and safe way, avoiding hazards for material and objects but above all for human workers.
 Advanced and ubiquitous human machine interaction Taxon description humans through ubiquity of mobile devices will enable users to receive relevant production and enterprise-specific information regardless of their geographical location and tailored to the context and the skills

MSEE | Manufacturing SErvice Ecosystem

01-10-2011

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30-09-2014

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Description implemented by an ecosystem of models and services distributed at the level of: i) the single manufacturing enterprise, ii) its value network and business ecosystem and iii) the ‘Future Internet’ of knowledge
Comments data platforms Technologies and enablers Data spaces Information and communication technologies Significant innovations and achievements Significant innovations and lessons learned, training aspects Knowledge-workers
 Knowledge-workers and operators Taxon title Knowledge-workers and operators Taxon description Workers with high knowledge and skills (“knowledge workers”) will be scarce resources.

AUTO-TWIN | Data-driven method based on a process mining approach for Automated Digital Twin generation, operations, and maintenance in circular value chains

01-12-2022

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30-11-2025

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 Reducing skills and knowledge gap and empowering humans through AI Result title Reducing skills and knowledge gap and empowering humans through AI Result description      It will improve the level of skills and knowledge of workers through profiling tools, suggesting actions to cover the gap among the expected level of competences. 3.

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 Enhancing these approaches by taking into account the knowledge about the capabilities/skills of the new devices and their impact on the overall capabilities/skills of the production system in terms of
Comments based components, introducing skills in our components allowing easier modeling and deployment in the simulation + Process planning and execution based on skills + AML first integration within Skills
 RP 2.14 Intuitive interfaces, mobility and rich user experience at the shop floor Taxon description Future research should exploit new mobile and user experience technologies to enhance the working experience of the European workers.
 Number of developed systems and technologies Comments based components, introducing skills in our components allowing easier modeling and deployment in the simulation + Process planning and execution based on skills + AML first integration within Skills

USE-IT-WISELY | Innovative continuous upgrades of high investment product-services

01-09-2013

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30-11-2016

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Description Finally, it will help to transform people’s knowledge and skills into product-service value thus strengthening Europe’s global competitiveness and securing domestic employment.
Comments application architectures and development tools ICT performance characteristics Interoperability (ICT) Significant innovations and achievements Significant innovations and lessons learned, training aspects Knowledge-workers
 Knowledge-workers and operators Taxon title Knowledge-workers and operators Taxon description Workers with high knowledge and skills (“knowledge workers”) will be scarce resources.

HORSE | Smart integrated Robotics system for SMEs controlled by Internet of Things based on dynamic manufacturing processes

11-01-2015

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30-04-2020

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Comments Technologies and enablers Human Machine Interfaces Information and communication technologies HORSE encompasses multi-modal supervision and control modes for a variety of existing and novel robotic co-workers
 Multi-modal monitoring subsystem (classification algorithm for security and safety state based on machine learning methods) Result description A continuous multi-modal monitoring system will be used to track the workers motion and predict his intentions.
 RP 2.11 Dynamic Manufacturing Execution Environments for their Smarter Integration into dynamic and agile factories Taxon description In addition, the amount of knowledge extracted from automation level should be fully exploited by manufacturing execution systems.

PRACE | The Productive Robot Apprentice

01-11-2011

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31-10-2014

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Description The apprentice watches the actions and effects to categorize this newly gathered knowledge into his knowledge base.
Comments Human Machine Interfaces Information and communication technologies Intelligent machinery components, actuators and end-effectors Technologies and enablers Mechatronics and robotics technologies Knowledge-workers
 Demonstrator PRACE (Automatica 2014) Result description Tracking processes for intuitive learning of robot movements (demonstration by the worker) - Assembly task is formulated on a semantic level - Automatic code transformation using a database with assembly skills
 Knowledge-workers and operators Taxon title Knowledge-workers and operators Taxon description Workers with high knowledge and skills (“knowledge workers”) will be scarce resources.

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 technologies Technologies and enablers Mechatronics and robotics technologies Performance monitoring Significant innovations and achievements Significant innovations and lessons learned, training aspects Knowledge-workers
 Knowledge-workers and operators Taxon title Knowledge-workers and operators Taxon description Workers with high knowledge and skills (“knowledge workers”) will be scarce resources.

MIDEMMA | Minimizing Defects in Micro-Manufacturing Applications

01-11-2011

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31-10-2014

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Description predicting models • Allowing the use of less expensive machines, that can reduce their variability through monitoring • Requiring less skilled working force, thanks to acquired process setting knowledge
 RP 1.8 Robust micro- and nano-enabled production Taxon description Aspects of machining or manufacturing at nano-scale and the effect on production equipment and workers also need to be taken into account.

CREMA | Cloud-based Rapid Elastic MAnufacturing

01-01-2015

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01-01-2018

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Comments application architectures and development tools ICT performance characteristics Interoperability (ICT) Significant innovations and achievements Significant innovations and lessons learned, training aspects Knowledge-workers
 CDM-Core: A Manufacturing Domain Ontology in OWL2 for Production and Maintenance Result description Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge ManagementJournal publisher: SCITEPRESS - Science and and Technology PublicationsPublished year: 2016Published pages: 136-143DOI identifier: 10.5220/0006056301360143ISBN
 Knowledge-workers and operators Taxon title Knowledge-workers and operators Taxon description Workers with high knowledge and skills (“knowledge workers”) will be scarce resources.

ADVENTURE | ADaptive Virtual ENterprise ManufacTURing Environment

01-09-2011

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31-08-2014

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Description This needs to be based on the requirements of the manufacturing processes at a deep technical level to provide easy, flexible interoperability with minimal user skills especially to support SMEs.
Comments Partnership SRIA Research priorities Domain 4: Collaborative and mobile enterprises Domain 5: Human-centric manufacturing FoF Partnership SRIA Research priorities RP 5.6 Plug & Play interfaces for factory workers
 RP 5.6 Plug & Play interfaces for factory workers in dynamic work environments Taxon title RP 5.6 Plug & Play interfaces for factory workers in dynamic work environments
 Domain 5: Human-centric manufacturing Taxon description Factory workers (future ‘knowledge workers’) will be given increased opportunities for continuous development of their skills and competencies through novel knowledge and capturing delivery mechanisms.

FiaD | Factory-in-a-day

01-10-2013

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30-09-2017

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Description For selected application domains (e.g. mould finishing and assembly) a set of novel learnable skills (cf. "Apps") allow rapid teaching of the production tasks.
Comments Technologies and enablers Information and communication technologies Digital manufacturing platforms - data platforms Technologies and enablers Data spaces Information and communication technologies Knowledge-workers
 Knowledge-workers and operators Taxon title Knowledge-workers and operators Taxon description Workers with high knowledge and skills (“knowledge workers”) will be scarce resources.

MATFLEX | Material Flexible production, development of physical and virtual test bed

01-10-2013

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Description The project has delivered results in several categories: 1) Direct benefit to the project partner industries through their pilot cases 2) Generic knowledge concerning cooperation with SMEs in different
Comments priorities Domain 3: Digital, virtual and resource-efficient factories Domain 5: Human-centric manufacturing FoF Partnership SRIA Research priorities RP 5.4 New ways of interaction and collaboration between workers
 Domain 5: Human-centric manufacturing Taxon description Factory workers (future ‘knowledge workers’) will be given increased opportunities for continuous development of their skills and competencies through novel knowledge and capturing delivery mechanisms.
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