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SHERLOCK | Seamless and safe human - centred robotic applications for novel collaborative workplaces

01-10-2018

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30-09-2022

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Description SHERLOCK's objectives are driven by production requirements involving a portfolio of 19 s/w and h/w modules: Soft Robotics Collaborative Production Station: High payload collaborative manipulator
Comments Objective 1: Excellent, responsive and smart factories & supply chains Specific Objective 4: Human-centered and human-driven manufacturing innovation MIE Consultation 2020 (Closed) R&I Objective 4.1
 CALPAK – Assembly Of Solar Thermal Collectors Result description SHERLOCK promotes the use of a High Payload Collaborative Manipulator to handle, rotate, and move the heavy solar thermal collectors and present them to the operators in the most convenient way to perform

Z-BRE4K | Strategies and Predictive Maintenance models wrapped around physical systems for Zero-unexpected-Breakdowns and increased operating life of Factories

01-10-2017

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31-03-2021

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Description life of assets (Z-ESTIMATE), the management of the aforementioned strategies through event modelling, KPI monitoring and real-time decision support (Z-MANAGE), the replacement, reconfiguration, re-use
Comments Furthermore, for the GESTAMP use case a real-time arc welding quality control system, based on infrared images, is being developed Mechatronics and robotics technologies Technologies and enablers
 Philips Use Case Result title Philips Use Case
 Gestamp Use Case Result description The use case deals with the complex equipment on the shop floor where the industry will act upon a sudden breakdown.

DIGICOR | Decentralised Agile Coordination Across Supply Chains

01-10-2016

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30-09-2019

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Description The solution is based on an open platform integrating tools and services and implementing case specific governance rules and procedures for collaboration, knowledge protection, and security.
Comments DIGICOR will demonstrate and validate such approaches with the help of three use-case scenarios.
 Community use cases definitions Result title Community use cases definitions
 End-User Validation report Result description Report of the end-user validation of the DIGICOR solution, in particular based on the use case implementations.
 Data ownership - data governance Taxon description At the core of  all potential industrial use case scenarios of platforms are data.
 Connecting factories from different enterprises Comments DIGICOR will demonstrate and validate such approaches with the help of three use-case scenarios.

RebootIoTFactory | Reboot IoT Factory

01-03-2018

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30-04-2021

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Description IoT focused researchers gain understanding of manufacturing domain needs and put their IoT innovations and research results into real life use.
 Specific Characteristics Define Business-to-Business Supply Chains in the Manufacturing Industry Result title Specific Characteristics Define Business-to-Business Supply Chains in the Manufacturing Industry
 In Robotics Fusion Routine Tasks Blend Into Seamless Co-operation Between Robots and People Result description   Error anticipation and recovery are specific themes in robotics fusion.

ROBUSTPLANET | Shock-robust Design of Plants and their Supply Chain Networks

01-10-2013

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30-09-2016

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Comments requirements of validation or formal qualification.
 Production System Opportunistic Maintenance Planning Result description In RobustPlaNet, a subset of signals and the related sensors has been selected for the interested use case. Then, these signals are elaborated and associated to states of the monitored machines.
 Innovative re-use of equipment Taxon title Innovative re-use of equipment
 Supply chain and value network efficiency Taxon description The transparency of customer requirements and value within the value chain is an important driver for optimisation.

Daedalus | Distributed control and simulAtion platform to support an Ecosystem of DigitAL aUtomation developerS

01-10-2016

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30-09-2019

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Comments characteristics General interoperability framework Interoperability (ICT) Integrating "digital" applications running in other platform into the real-time automation engineering environment is a very interesting use-case
 Industrial requirements for an effective establishment of the “Automation Ecosystem” Result title Industrial requirements for an effective establishment of the “Automation Ecosystem” Result description Report identifying industrial requirements for the project development.
 RP 2.2 Embedded cognitive functions for supporting the use of machinery and robot systems in changing shop floor environments Taxon title RP 2.2 Embedded cognitive functions for supporting the use of machinery and robot systems in changing shop floor environments
 RP 2.6 Mechatronics and new machine architectures for high performance and resource-efficient manufacturing equipment Taxon description Resulting avant-garde manufacturing equipment should comply with requirements coming from manufacturers with maximized throughput and minimised total lifecycle environmental and economic costs.

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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Comments This allows forecasts of use.
 Improving Product-Service Systems by Exploiting Information From The Usage Phase. A Case Study Result title A Case Study
 FALCON semantic concept definition document Result description In addition, the deliverable contains the analysis of industrial requirements for each application scenario, as a pre-condition to define the relevant domain.
 Domain 6: Customer-focused manufacturing Taxon description Designers use different ICT tools at different levels in order to come up with ‘eco-designed’ products.
 RP 6.5 Product-Service Simulation for Sustainability Impact Comments This allows forecasts of use.

IFACOM | Intelligent Fault Correction and self Optimizing Manufacturing systems

01-11-2011

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30-04-2015

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Description Manufacturing processes will be brought into higher stability both on short and long term. 3) Implement process control strategies based on the use of advanced computational intelligence methods for
Comments Clusters Impact Workshop Specific Cluster - FOCUS Impact Workshop Specific Clusters Specific Cluster - FOCUS - Zero Defect Manufacturing Impact Workshop Specific Cluster - FOCUS Specific Clusters
 GKN DEMO Result description The demonstrator shows technology for changing a manual assembly process of TRFs into an automated process where the quality requirements are validated and verified.
 RP 2.2 Embedded cognitive functions for supporting the use of machinery and robot systems in changing shop floor environments Taxon title RP 2.2 Embedded cognitive functions for supporting the use of machinery and robot systems in changing shop floor environments
 Domain 1: Advanced manufacturing processes Taxon description Micro- and nano manufacturing in particular demand specific approaches for intelligent, adaptive and scalable systems.

openMOS | Open dynamic Manufacturing Operating System for Smart Plug-and-Produce Automation Components

10-01-2015

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30-09-2018

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Description As the vast majority of components/ devices/ machine manufacturers and system integrators are SMEs, plug-and-produce can only be achieved by placing specific SME requirements at the forefront: solutions
 Industrial Requirements for Plug-and-Produce Systems and Components Result title Industrial Requirements for Plug-and-Produce Systems and Components
 Plug&produce automation device specification Result description The focus will be on translating the general requirements identified in D1.1 into specific technical requirements in discussion with the plug&produce devices developers in WP5.

ReCaM | Rapid Reconfiguration of Flexible Production Systems through Capability-based Adaptation, Auto-configuration and Integrated tools for Production Planning

11-01-2015

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31-10-2018

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Description The requirements on production systems are continuously being shifted towards higher flexibility and adaptability.
Comments   Contribution to the reduction in the use of material resources Additional KPIs Similar, to reduction of waste.
 Demonstration of Use Case II Result title Demonstration of Use Case II
 Plug-and-produce technologies for highly adaptive production systems Result description CESA use case will be implemented by DGH with the support of Tecnalia and TUT, in order to automate a manual assembly operation by using ReCaM flexible tools.
 RP 2.6 Mechatronics and new machine architectures for high performance and resource-efficient manufacturing equipment Taxon description Resulting avant-garde manufacturing equipment should comply with requirements coming from manufacturers with maximized throughput and minimised total lifecycle environmental and economic costs.

JOIN-EM | JOINing of copper to aluminium by ElectroMagnetic fields

01-09-2015

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31-08-2018

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Description In JOIN’EM, strategies for the process and tool design shall be developed for joining copper-aluminium connections and for 2 other specific material combinations.
Comments requirements of validation or formal qualification.
 Project specific website Result title Project specific website
 Joining of compressed air dryer components Result description Description of the product The product of the Refco case study is part of a refrigeration circuit of a compressed air-dryer.
 Domain 1: Advanced manufacturing processes Taxon description Micro- and nano manufacturing in particular demand specific approaches for intelligent, adaptive and scalable systems.

SENSE AND REACT | Sense&React - The context-aware and user-centric information distribution system for manufacturing

01-10-2012

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29-02-2016

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Description Sense&React project envisages overcoming the above mentioned issues via: - The use of customised, role-specific user interfaces provided through mobile devices in order to support the shop-floor personnel
 White Goods Pilot - Assembly Process Support and Exception Handling Support Result description A specific case during “normal” production activities is the preparation of a batch change in the line.

ICP4Life | An Integrated Collaborative Platform for Managing the Product-Service Engineering Lifecycle

01-01-2015

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01-01-2019

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Description Energy Supplier: This pilot case will focus on the current needs of contemporary energy suppliers in Europe in terms of Product-Services.
Comments Reducing the consumption of energy Manufacturing performance characteristics Environmental sustainability Services associated with the product, mainly in the TAURON use case, will address this aspect Domain
  Automatic estimation of environmental impact for specific manufacturing processes and production activities (potential result) Result title Automatic estimation of environmental impact for specific manufacturing processes and production activities (potential result)
 ICP4Life Designer Component Result description The PSS engineer can also use the component to coordinate and manage the whole design process.
 Domain 6: Customer-focused manufacturing Taxon description Designers use different ICT tools at different levels in order to come up with ‘eco-designed’ products.

PHOCAM | Photopolymer based customized additive manufacturing technologies

01-06-2010

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31-05-2013

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Comments requirements of validation or formal qualification.
 Hardware for ceramic processing using new LED based light engines - Laboratory Prototype 2nd generation Result description Several components of the system had to be adjusted or redesigned in order to fulfil the new requirements.
 Advanced ceramics for customized products for textile machinery - Fabrication of a demo yarn guide using the developed preparation software Result acronym Textile use case
 Domain 1: Advanced manufacturing processes Taxon description Micro- and nano manufacturing in particular demand specific approaches for intelligent, adaptive and scalable systems.

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 Fortissimo will be driven by end-user requirements where (~50) business-relevant application experiments will be used to develop, test and demonstrate both the infrastructure and the "one-stop pay-per-use
 Cloud-based simulation of structural crash tests Result description The design of vehicles involves trade-offs between conflicting requirements such as weight reduction, performance requirements and manufacturing constraints.
 RP 3.3 Integrated High-performance Computing in Factory Life Cycle Management Taxon description Such holistic factory lifecycle phases have to be addressed using appropriate distributed, interoperable, and high performance ICT tools which make use of advances in parallel and distributed computing

TRINITY | Digital Technologies, Advanced Robotics and increased Cyber-security for Agile Production in Future European Manufacturing Ecosystems

01-01-2019

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31-12-2022

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 TRINITY catalogue of use cases and modules Result title TRINITY catalogue of use cases and modules
 TRINITY Marketing kit Result description • Experiments factsheets: A factsheet for each use case demonstration will be developed. The factsheet will include including a description of the use case demonstration, its objectives and results

COMVANTAGE | Collaborative Manufacturing Network for Competitive Advantage

01-09-2011

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31-08-2014

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Description A continuous evaluation of the ICT and business model considering use cases throughout the project will verify the added-value of ComVantage for European industry.
 Flexible workflow runtime for agile business environments Result description Afterwards, those apps are adapted to the specific usage context by adapting for instance the corporate design and the use of data back ends.
 RP 4.8 Multi-Enterprise Role-Based Access Control (mRBAC) in manufacturing enterprises Taxon description Future research should focus on the ability to model trust and privacy requirements in multi-stakeholder supply networks joining data and services of enterprises.

EFPF (European Factory Platform) | European Connected Factory Platform for Agile Manufacturing

01-01-2019

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31-12-2022

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Description federation is offered to the manufacturing and logistic companies as an open platform; to utilise the offered functionality, experiment with innovation approaches and develop custom solutions based on specific
Comments ) Specific Objective 3: New integrated business, product-service and production approaches; new use models MIE Consultation 2020 (Closed) Specific Objective 4: Human-centered and human-driven manufacturing
 Use Case on Environmental Impact Assessment in the Fish Canning Industry Result title Use Case on Environmental Impact Assessment in the Fish Canning Industry
 Visual Detection of Personal Protection Equipment Result description Expanding the applications areas of AI in the manufacturing environments, in the EFPF project a specific use-case investigates the use of AI-based visual analytic techniques to ensure operational health

CLOUDFLOW | Computational Cloud Services and Workflows for Agile Engineering

01-07-2013

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31-12-2016

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Description In this context, it will prepare the engineers to use the computational services on the cloud, it will investigate and create new business models to use these kinds of services on demand and it will continuously
Comments The design and layout of the splitter-type silencer can be calculated within hours instead of days which also reduces the use of energy.
 Designing Turbine Blades for Hydropower Plants with CAD from the Cloud Result description For Missler the case study has opened up the opportunity to develop new plug-ins for other specific complex CAD design processes of high importance to different end users and to provide such plug-ins through
 Supply chain and value network efficiency Taxon description The transparency of customer requirements and value within the value chain is an important driver for optimisation.
 Reduction of energy consumption (in %) Comments The design and layout of the splitter-type silencer can be calculated within hours instead of days which also reduces the use of energy.

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 3: Aircraft Manufacturer Result title Business Case 3: Aircraft Manufacturer
 EPES Methodology Result description In this regard, support for this validation required a methodological framework that encompasses these case studies, in such a way that future use will be mostly universal.
 RP 6.2 ICT Solutions for energy-efficient product life cycles and ECO-usage Taxon description The innovation should focus on encompassing whole product lifecycles as well as specific lifecycle phases.

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 These three critical limitations currently prevent the use of robots in typical machining applications. COMET will overcome these problems that come with today’s industrial robots.
Comments MA - Be aware of sectors with specific requirements of validation or formal qualification. Success Factors Market aspects (MA) Before project!
 Robot deburring of inconel turbine discs Result description Deburring components with the use of a machine has been labelled ‘mechanical edge preparation’ within the industry.
 RP 2.2 Embedded cognitive functions for supporting the use of machinery and robot systems in changing shop floor environments Taxon title RP 2.2 Embedded cognitive functions for supporting the use of machinery and robot systems in changing shop floor environments
 RP 2.6 Mechatronics and new machine architectures for high performance and resource-efficient manufacturing equipment Taxon description Resulting avant-garde manufacturing equipment should comply with requirements coming from manufacturers with maximized throughput and minimised total lifecycle environmental and economic costs.

AREUS | Automation and Robotics for EUropean Sustainabile manufacturing

01-09-2013

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31-08-2016

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Description scalable/progressive development of singularly optimized sustainable robotic manufacturing applications (or the re-adaptation of existing production facilities) and will be demonstrated on 7 industrial case
Comments IEEE CASE, ICRA etc) and seminars (especially focused on SMEs and robotics.
 DC Power Supply System Result description R-ECO reduces the plant Energy Consumption and copper use up to 50% while at the same time it improves the electrical power quality.
 RP 3.13 Integration of design methods and tools Taxon description The integration of methods and tools requires the interoperability between the various models dealing with specific problem in the factory hierarchy.
 COMMUNIC - Conferences, workshops, seminars Comments IEEE CASE, ICRA etc) and seminars (especially focused on SMEs and robotics.

OPENZDM | Open Platform for Realising Zero Defects in Cyber-Physical Manufacturing

01-06-2022

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30-11-2025

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 Beam Straightness Measurement with Laser Triangulation System: a steel industry use case Result title Beam Straightness Measurement with Laser Triangulation System: a steel industry use case Result acronym Beam Straightness Measurement with Laser Triangulation System: a steel industry use case
 IDTA - WG Use Cases presentation Result description ONLINE Project presentation: "AAS specific; Powerpoint presentation with 2 use cases"
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