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COMPOSITION | Ecosystem for Collaborative Manufacturing Processes _ Intra- and Interfactory Integration and Automation

01-09-2016

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31-08-2019

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Description COMPOSITION will create a digital automation framework, the COMPOSITION Integrated Information Management System (IIMS) that enhances the manufacturing processes by exploiting existing data, knowledge
  Industrial use cases for an Integrated Information Management System Result title Industrial use cases for an Integrated Information Management System
  Interoperability for M2M & HMI in factory environments I Result description This report outlines the challenges and value of information and communication technology (ICT) with respect to interoperability.
  Interoperability for M2M & HMI in factory environments II Result comments Connected IT and OT IoT enabled SCADA, MOM-MES, ERP (…) connectivity Humans actively connected Human Machine Interfaces Data communication and interoperability Reference docs
  Cognitive and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies - machine learning Taxon title Cognitive and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies - machine learning Search keywords technologies
  AAA - Access, Authorisation and Authentication Taxon description Authorisation is the process of allowing an entity (humans, systems or devices) to access information systems or facilities where information and processing capabilities are being stored.
  Number of new skills and/or job profles Comments He/She has knowledge about processes, tools and technologies to add digital intelligence to the value chain.
    Technologies and enablers
    Advanced manufacturing processes
      Recycling processes
      Comment: Part of the scrap generated by the manufacturing industry is recyclable. The recycling companies need to stay connected with the industries and to plan for the further reselling and/or disposal of the material. COMPOSITION will connect the dots in the inter-factory pilot.
    Mechatronics
      Condition and performance monitoring
      Comment: Continuous monitoring of the condition and performance of specific critical parts (equipment, infrastructure and environment) of the manufacturing system will provide feedback to the real-time brokering and message translations services allowing seamless integration of heterogeneous manufacturing components.
    Information and communication technologies
      Digital manufacturing platforms
      Comment: The COMPOSITION Integrated Information Management System will be a collaborative ecosystem where all members of a manufacturing supply chain can connect in a secure environment. The Security Framework will implement the security core mechanisms aiming to ensure the security, confidentiality, integrity and availability of the managed information for all authorised COMPOSITION stakeholders.
      IoT - Internet of Things
      Comment: The Digital Factory Model (DFM) will provide an integrated representation of the intra-factory domain at machine-level, end-user-level, and process-level. The DFM model will be used to exploit data coming from machinery, sensors and production lines and will offer interoperability in communication by providing all these heterogeneous data in a common format. The DFM is re-used in the Decision Support System, in Simulation and in the Deep Learning Toolkit. The integration of information will enable better use of the data available in the physical layer of the factories to be made.
      Human Machine Interfaces
      Comment:

      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.

      Results:
      Interoperability for M2M & HMI in factory environments II

      Interoperability for M2M & HMI in factory environments II
        Advanced and ubiquitous human machine interaction
        Comment: Decision makers are not at their desk the whole day. In order to reduce the probability that they miss important information, the project investigates user interface solutions for the shop floor and everywhere else in the factory, in order to provide data monitoring, control and notification systems, that help humans in interaction with machines and with the decision making process.
      Data analytics, processing and AI
      Comment: Big data analytics in cloud environments to support manufacturing scenarios.
        Data acquisition
        Comment: Data acquisition tools to instantiate virtual manufacturing processes.
        Data processing
        Comment: The platform will apply smart data processing methods for investigating the dataset in order to find logical links. It will also investigate novel complex event processing approaches.
        Data modelling
        Comment:

        The COMPOSITION project contains a Digital Factory Model Component which offers representation of factory processes and resources in a common format based on well-known standards.

      System modelling, simulation and forecasting
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      A Simulation and Forecasting Toolkit analyses the production processes and required resources in an integrated way and extracts forecasts for possible failures. Also forecasting is provided in supply chain and logistics, especially in fill level monitoring of bins and boosts the waste management and recycling processes. Sustainable manufacturing will be assisted by a Decision Support System. The Marketplace will enable dynamic integration with actors in the supply chain.

      Results:
      Digital Factory Model II

      Digital Factory Model II
      Operating systems
      Comment: Design a technical operating system for the support connected and interoperable factories with their stakeholders and for the optimisation of manufacturing and logistics processes.
      Architecture
        Collaborative and decentralized application architectures and development tools
        Comment: The COMPOSITION project will address the issue of extended enterprises allowing the interaction and collaboration of all stakeholders in the COMPOSITION Marketplace as every business entity will be represented by agents at the ecosystem. Some of information from companies’ IIMS will be reflected at the ecosystem in a Collaborative Manufacturing Services Ontology which will be used as a central knowledge base. The Matchmaker will infer knew knowledge from the knowledge base by applying both syntactic and semantic matching in terms of manufacturing capabilities, in order to find the best possible supplier to fulfil a request. Different criteria for selection according to several qualitative and quantitative factors will be considered.
    Manufacturing strategies
      Innovation
      Comment: COMPOSITION defines innovations at factory performance level, but also at business model level. Collaboration among multi-disciplinary companies will be possible in the ecosystem.

ConnectedFactories | Industrial scenarios for connected factories

01-09-2016

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31-08-2019

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Description ConnectedFactories enhances the awareness among companies of the use of digital technologies in the manufacturing sector, and equip them with knowledge to make informed decisions regarding technology and
  Workshop methodology and common information package Result title Workshop methodology and common information package Result description Workshop methodology and common information package
  Key enablers and cross-cutting factors Result comments Mechatronics Information and communication technologies Digital manufacturing platforms Manufacturing strategies
  Information and communication technologies Taxon title Information and communication technologies Search keywords Information communication technologies
  Cybersecurity Taxon description Security for information and infrastructure related to digital systems 
  Cybersecurity Taxon description Security for information and infrastructure related to digital systems 

SAFIRE | Cloud-based Situational Analysis for Factories providing Real-time Reconfiguration Services

01-10-2016

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30-09-2019

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  Methodology for Predictive Analytics Platform Result description A methodology to how to get model information and convert it to a dataflow will be elaborated by IKER, supported by all other partners.
  SAFIRE OAS pilot: Optimisation of production processes and preventive maintenance activities Result comments Information and communication Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Scheduling Monitoring Data analytics Prediction - forecasting Optimisation - KPI perspective Data acquisition Data processing Data
  Information and communication Taxon title Information and communication Search keywords Information communication
  AAA - Access, Authorisation and Authentication Taxon description Authorisation is the process of allowing an entity (humans, systems or devices) to access information systems or facilities where information and processing capabilities are being stored.
  Standards Comments to open standards targeting security and Interoperability of production and product data SAFIRE ontology potential candidate for initial standardization submission for modelling correlation between information

AUTOWARE | Wireless Autonomous, Reliable and Resilient ProductIon Operation ARchitecture for Cognitive Manufacturing

01-10-2016

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30-09-2019

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  D6.1a Innovation, Dissemination and Communication Action Plan Result title D6.1a Innovation, Dissemination and Communication Action Plan Result description D6.1 Innovation, Dissemination and Communication Action Plan (M4, M18, M36)
  Wireless communication protocols Taxon title Wireless communication protocols Search keywords communication
  Cybersecurity Taxon description Security for information and infrastructure related to digital systems 
  Data communication and interoperability Comments To allow the interaction and interworking of the heterogeneous communications and networking technologies necessary to support the ubiquitous connectivity of CPPS.

NIMBLE | Collaboration Network for Industry, Manufacturing, Business and Logistics in Europe

01-10-2016

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30-09-2019

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Description register, publish machine-readable catalogs for products and services, search for suitable supply chain partners, negotiate contracts and supply logistics, and develop private and secure B2B and M2M information
  Dissemination and Communication Plan Result title Dissemination and Communication Plan
  Periodic Reporting for period 1 - NIMBLE (Collaboration Network for Industry, Manufacturing, Business and Logistics in Europe) Result description The authors acknowledge the disruptive potential of the emerging technologies and point out four major areas of impact: ? vastly improved operational efficiency ?
  Design of an Open API for the NIMBLE Platform Result comments result_rcn_EC deliverableType_EC Documents, reports Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols
  Semantic/information interoperability Taxon title Semantic/information interoperability Search keywords information
  AAA - Access, Authorisation and Authentication Taxon description These can be physical (access to the country, to the plant, to the building, the room and the environment where the system is located), and logical (using authentication technologies).
  Architecture Comments The service communication is enabled either via REST (i.e. HTTP) or by using the Messaging Service (based on Apache Kafka), which provides asynchronous and scalable communication.
    Information and communication technologies
      Programming Frameworks – Software Development Kits (SDKs)
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      Applied Technologies:

      Spring Boo: Spring Boot is a framework for building web applications. It is built on top of the Spring Framework and follows a zero-configuration principle. The major set of microservices are build using Spring Boot as an application framework.

      Spring Cloud: Functionalities for building and integrating microservices are provided by Spring Cloud. It mainly aggregates components of the Netflix Open Source Software (Netflix OSS) project and makes them easily be integrated with

      Spring Boot applications. Components of the underlying microservice infrastructure are heavily using modules from Spring Cloud (e.g. Service Discovery, Configuration Server and Gateway Proxy).

      Spring Cloud Security: Standardized security mechanisms are implemented using Spring Cloud Security. It provides out-of-the-box integration of security modules to Spring Cloud applications. Authentication and authorization between microservices are realized by using Spring Cloud Security, which supports OAuth2 and OpenID Connect and communicates with the authentication server (i.e. Cloud Foundry UAA).

      ELK Stack Logs can be streamed to Logstash, which stores them persistently in Elastic Search. visualizations are done using Kibana, hence the ELK stack. The ELK stack is used to aggregate log output of distributed microservices in order to centrally perform analysis of generated log output.

      Cloud Foundry UAA: The Cloud Foundry User Account and Authentication (UAA) is a multi tenant identity management service, available as a stand alone OAuth2 server issuing tokens for clients. Cloud Foundry UAA acts as identity and authentication server issuing OpenID Connect tokens.

      Camunda BPM: Camunda BPM is an open source platform for business process management. Camunda BPM is used for the definition and execution of business processes (e.g. supply chain process).

      Apache Marmotta: Apache Marmotta is an open implementation of a linked data platform. Apache Marmotta will be mainly used to store catalog data and perform product-search queries. Apache Solr Apache Solr is a free-text indexing tool providing advanced search and navigation capabilities on the indexed data. Apache Marmotta uses Apache Solr for its semantic search cores composed semantic features of indexed items.

      Docker: Docker is an open-source solution for application deployment, consisting of prebuilt images running inside a container. Docker will be used for intermediate development releases and on-premises deployment.

      PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL is an open-source database system for object-relational data. PostgreSQL will mainly be used as a database technology, in order to have a homogeneous setup.

      Apache Kafka: Open Source messaging infrastructure Mainly used for private communication among components and entities.

      Data management:

      • Product life-cycle management
      • Web objects for IoT data ingestion
        FIWARE
        Comment:

        FIWARE is a reference point concerning available software components.

      Architecture
      Comment: IIRA is the main reference. IIRA is closest in terms of conceptual design for NIMBLE. RAMI is not so applicable to us because we are closer to Internet B2C or B2B platforms. Industrial Data Space is on our radar, but was not sufficiently elaborated at the time of writing the proposal. See https://cloud.effra.eu/index.php/s/NiyTZgM3kw6VCxw The NIMBLE platform is designed to ingest data stemming from edge devices into the platform. Once data has reached the platform, data are stored for future uses such as offline analytics and auditing. In addition, processing of the data as it flows into the platform can be performed in real-time. Offline analytics complements the real-time view by enabling companies to gain insights from their data leading to more efficient processes. We follow the microservice approach for the NIMBLE architecture. Each microservice offers a specific and narrowly defined functionality that is deployed as an independent service [2]. It puts emphasis on real-time application monitoring, including architectural elements and business relevant metrics, e.g. number of orders per minute [2]. In addition, this approach provides decentralized data management and decentralized data storage decisions based on a polyglot persistence method. Microservices can still be combined with monolithic enterprise applications (monolith’s APIs) built as single units, fostering the federation and collaboration of various independent services in the Cloud. Figure 1 depicts the top-level architecture, which is inspired by the microservice infrastructure presented in [3]. Figure 2 then shows the core business services of the platform in more detail. The Gateway Proxy is the public entry point to the microservice application. All user requests are received via the Gateway Proxy and routed to the appropriate service. The Service Logging aggregates log outputs of each individual microservice and makes them available via a Web interface. The Service Monitoring collects data, which are necessary to monitor failures of services; this is implemented using the Circuit Breaker pattern [4]. The Service Monitoring can be used to monitor remote calls, or in any situation where parts of a system need to be protected from failures in other parts. After the number of erroneous executions exceeds a defined threshold, all future calls are immediately returned with an error without the actual function being executed. The Service Discovery enables registration of microservices, as well as mapping between service identifier and the endpoints of instances (e.g. URL or IP address). The role of the Service Configuration is to provide configuration settings for each service. The service communication is enabled either via REST (i.e. HTTP) or by using the Messaging Service (based on Apache Kafka), which provides asynchronous and scalable communication. Finally, the User Account and Authentication (UAA) & Identity Management administrates user identities on the platform. It combines the three standard protocols: OAuth2 for delegated authorization [5], OpenID Connect for session and authentication information [6], and the System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) for user and group management [7].

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

01-10-2016

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  Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Daedalus (Distributed control and simulAtion platform to support an Ecosystem of DigitAL aUtomation developerS) Result description (versus compatibility) and robustness; integration of different temporal-decision scale data (real-time, near-time, anytime) and multiple data sources; integration of the real and the virtual data-information
  Semantic/information interoperability Taxon title Semantic/information interoperability Search keywords information
  Intelligent machinery components, actuators and end-effectors Taxon description Energy technologies are gaining importance, such as (super)capacitors, pneumatic storage devices, batteries and energy harvesting technologies.
  Integration level interoperability Comments IEC-61499 established both a programming language and the rules for open communication protocols for real-time control over distributed applications.

DISRUPT | Decentralised architectures for optimised operations via virtualised processes and manufacturing ecosystem collaboration

01-09-2016

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31-08-2019

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Description of information and decisions from and to the plant floor and (v) efficient interaction with value chain partners.
  Periodic Reporting for period 1 - DISRUPT (Decentralised architectures for optimised operations via virtualised processes and manufacturing ecosystem collaboration) Result description of information, knowledge, and decisions from and to the plant floor and (v) efficient interaction with value chain partners.
  Information and communication technologies Taxon title Information and communication technologies Search keywords Information communication technologies
  Cybersecurity Taxon description Security for information and infrastructure related to digital systems 

DIGICOR | Decentralised Agile Coordination Across Supply Chains

01-10-2016

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  D5.8: Data access API & Reference data store (Final Release) Result description information stored in these legacy systems.
  D5.10 DIGICOR Data Models Implementation Result comments Semantic/information interoperability APIs and Integration Protocols Dynamic IT connections to new supply chain partners
  Open APIs and Communication Protocols Taxon title Open APIs and Communication Protocols Search keywords Communication
  AAA - Access, Authorisation and Authentication Taxon description Authorisation is the process of allowing an entity (humans, systems or devices) to access information systems or facilities where information and processing capabilities are being stored.

vf-OS | Virtual Factory Open Operating System

01-10-2016

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  vfOS - ID10.3a - Impact Activity Reports(M9) Result description Moreover it will contain the information related to the yearly vf-OS eNewsletters, brochures, and other material as well as well as the highly specialised information about the significant progresses and
  vfOS - ID5.3a - Data Harmonisation(M18) Result comments result_rcn_EC deliverableType_EC Other Semantic/information interoperability
  Information and communication technologies Taxon title Information and communication technologies Search keywords Information communication technologies Comments The Open vf-OS covers from the control device level, where information from the systems (IoT, CPS, embedded systems) is gathered, processed and empowered.
  AAA - Access, Authorisation and Authentication Taxon description Authorisation is the process of allowing an entity (humans, systems or devices) to access information systems or facilities where information and processing capabilities are being stored.

C2NET | Cloud Collaborative Manufacturing Networks (C2NET)

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01-01-2018

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Description manufacturing assets by the collaborative computation of production plans, to optimize the logistics assets through efficient delivery plans and to render the complete set of supply chain management information
  Periodic Reporting for period 2 - C2NET (Cloud Collaborative Manufacturing Networks (C2NET)) Result description C2NET cloud enabled technologies will efficiently support decision-makers in the extended and collaborative business processes based..

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VPS | Versatile Production System

Project: IMPROVE

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Updated at: 22-06-2018

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Description The VPS is a hybrid technical process, considering both continuous and discrete process elements with a focus on the information processes and communication technologies from the plant level down to the

sustainablySMART-204943 | Periodic Reporting for period 1 - sustainablySMART (Sustainable Smart Mobile Dev...

Project: sustainablySMART

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Updated at: 08-03-2019

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Title Periodic Reporting for period 1 - sustainablySMART (Sustainable Smart Mobile Devices Lifecycles through Advanced Re-design, Reliability, and Re-use and Remanufacturing Technologies)
Description The project sustainablySMART will change the lifecycle of mobile information and communication technology devices by developing new product design approaches.
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