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

01-09-2016

31-08-2019

Calltopic: FoF.2016.11

: 69 | : 3

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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
Application level interoperability Taxon title Application level interoperability
Web Ontology Language (OWL) Taxon description The W3C Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a Semantic Web language designed to represent rich and complex knowledge about things, groups of things, and relations between things.
Data communication and interoperability Search keywords interoperability
Data/object model interoperability - Data exchange formats - APIs Comments They are based XML and JSON syntax and provide a high level of simplicity, extensibility, interoperability and openness.

ICT performance characteristics

Data communication and interoperability

Comment: Interoperability between installed equipment and infrastructure (machines, environment, people) is critical to capture and process data for the COMPOSITION IIMS components.

Results:

Interoperability for M2M & HMI in factory environments II

Platform level interoperability

AAA - Access, Authorisation and Authentication

Comment: KeyCloak (Authentication, Message Broker)

User Acccess and Rights Management

Comment: Role-based identity management through KeyCloak (Clients, Roles, Users)

Application level interoperability

Comment: Log-Oriented Architecture through Blockchain Implementation for providing Audit Trail for Manufacturing & Supply Chain data, Matchmaking services (including semantic queries) as part of the Open Marketplace

Modular Design and Deployment Approaches

Comment: Docker-Based application packaging for standalone & integrated framework

Open APIs and Communication Protocols

Comment: Integrated Digital Factory Model for Intra-Factory & MarketPlace Open Reference Data Model for Inter-Factory Support (bids, offers and transactions, etc.)

Wireless communication protocols

Comment: Cyber-physical systems usually come with heterogeneous communication protocols, many of them widely used like KNX, ZigBee, ModBus, etc. All the different field buses are integrated in the BMS for data collection and, afterwards, the information is forwarded though the local WLAN. Scalability, re-configurability and inter-operability with existing infrastructure will be a key decision factor in installing such CPS.

Integration level interoperability

Data/object model interoperability - Data exchange formats - APIs

Comment: Digital Factory Models’ instances will gather data in a common format. It is based on well-known standards such as BPMN, B2MML, gbXML and OGC. They are based XML and JSON syntax and provide a high level of simplicity, extensibility, interoperability and openness.

APIs and Integration Protocols

Comment:

1) Security Information & Event Management API, 2) BPMN standard as part of the Integrated Digital Factory Model, 3) RabbitMQ implementation, 4) OGC sensor things compliant API through Integrated Digital Factory Metadata Model, 5) Part of the Integrated Digital Factory Model

Cybersecurity

Comment:

Security by design approach. Development of a Security Framework composed by a core set of security mechanisms to guarantee the security, confidentiality, integrity and availability of the managed information for all authorised stakeholders in the supply chain while at the same time maintaining suitable levels of IPR and knowledge protection. The COMPOSITION Security Framework iapplies blockchain technology to provide an audit trail for manufacturing and supply chain data, enabling both product data traceability and secure access for stakeholders. Cybersecurity mechanisms will be developed to monitor and protect against potential threats that could affect the COMPOSITION infrastructure.

Results:

Design of the Security Framework II

Prototype of the Security Framework II

Connectors for Inter-factory Interoperability and Logistics II

Comment:

The Security Framework together with the Blockchain layer is strongly interlaced with the COMPOSITION ecosystem, providing all the necessary security features as authentication, authorization, message integrity and message traceability.

Scalability

Comment: The modular nature of the COMPOSITION system will allow easy and fast scalability for use in both large and small manufacturing sites with high or low complexity. The systems should also be modular such that multiple smaller systems & sub-systems can easily be integrated into larger systems

ConnectedFactories | Industrial scenarios for connected factories

01-09-2016

31-08-2019

Calltopic: FoF.2016.11

: 14 | : 2

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Description ConnectedFactories explores pathways to the digital integration and interoperability of manufacturing systems and processes and the benefits this will bring.
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
Semantic/information interoperability Taxon title Semantic/information interoperability Search keywords Semantic information interoperability
Cybersecurity Taxon description Security for information and infrastructure related to digital systems

ICT performance characteristics

Data communication and interoperability

Integration with legacy systems

Application level interoperability

Open APIs and Communication Protocols

Wireless communication protocols

Integration level interoperability

Semantic/information interoperability

Data/object model interoperability - Data exchange formats - APIs

Cybersecurity

Privacy

Safety

Real-time communication capability

Resilience

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

01-10-2016

30-09-2019

Calltopic: FoF.2016.11

: 16 | : 1

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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
Catalogue Ingestion and Semantic Annotation Result title Catalogue Ingestion and Semantic Annotation
Periodic Reporting for period 1 - NIMBLE (Collaboration Network for Industry, Manufacturing, Business and Logistics in Europe) Result description architectural baseline that takes into account the expertise provided by e.g. the IIRA, RAMI, FI-Ware and COMPOSE architectures. (2) Interoperability: improve semantic interoperability to enable cross-platform
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 Semantic information interoperability
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.
Programming Frameworks – Software Development Kits (SDKs) Comments Apache Marmotta uses Apache Solr for its semantic search cores composed semantic features of indexed items.

ICT performance characteristics

Data communication and interoperability

Comment: Refrain from proprietary formats; if necessary, build adapters that go both ways (import/export). Platform-independent micro-service architecture (micro-services are designed to be independent of Bluemix stack (but can use it if it’s there)) Standards compliance for product categorisation (eClass), business process specification (UBL), oneM2M for manufacturing interoperation.

Platform level interoperability

AAA - Access, Authorisation and Authentication

Comment: KeyCloak - based on Standards (OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0 and SAML 2.0)

User Acccess and Rights Management

Comment: KeyCloak based Identity and Access Management of NIMBLE Platform

Application level interoperability

Modular Design and Deployment Approaches

Comment: (1) Docker-based (2) Bluemix/Kubernetes-based cloud solution

Open APIs and Communication Protocols

Comment: NIMBLE Task 2.3 OpenAPI for the NIMBLE Platform

Integration level interoperability

Semantic/information interoperability

Comment: B2B collaboration: Semantic annotation of products and services. Business process design and execution. Open ontologies. UBL for business processes, eClass for products, domain specific ontologies aligned via light-weight upper ontology

Data/object model interoperability - Data exchange formats - APIs

Comment: Open published API for 3rd party extensions. Intelligent support for business negotiation. Mainly driven by UBL documents connected to defined business processes; NIMBLE OpenAPI

Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols

Comment: Web objects for IoT data ingestion

Results:

Design of an Open API for the NIMBLE Platform

Cybersecurity

Comment: End-to-end security: Data integrity, confidentiality, identity and key management, authentication, fine-grained authorization and access control. Trust and reputation management. Advanced behavioural security (including game theory) 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).

Results:

Design and Implementation of Security and Privacy for Core Business Services

Resilience

Comment: Resilience is partly addressed through the federation aspects: attackers need to “hack” more than one platform, each with a different security setup, chosen from NIMBLE modules.

Privacy

Results:

Design and Implementation of Security and Privacy for Core Business Services

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

01-10-2016

30-09-2019

Calltopic: FoF.2016.11

: 9 | : 1

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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 the virtual data-information towards a predictive model for manufacturing; real-time data collection, analysis, decision, enforcement; optimisation in complex system of systems infrastructures; etc.
Semantic/information interoperability Taxon title Semantic/information interoperability Search keywords Semantic information interoperability

ICT performance characteristics

Data communication and interoperability

Comment: CPS interface: Extension of automation objects to include/interface with behavioral models. HW/SW wrapping of legacy and/or proprietary systems

Platform level interoperability

AAA - Access, Authorisation and Authentication

Comment: Not foreseen for IEC-61499 but possible if performance (over real-time) overhead is acceptable. Within IEC-61499, justified only if industrial requirements exists; the standard accepts the possibility to be extended in this direction. With respect to intefacing to other platfrom, complete openness to implement appropriate software gateways.

User Acccess and Rights Management

Comment: Developing a solution specific for IEC-61499. Open to standardized methods to interface to existing SoA approaches in higher levels of automation.

Application level interoperability

Comment: Integrating "digital" applications running in other platform into the real-time automation engineering environment is a very interesting use-case

Web-services / Composability

Modular Design and Deployment Approaches

Comment: IEC-61499 is modular and OO in its approach to real-time automation. Moreover, it allows to "encapsulate" interfaces to other platform coherently with this OO approach.

Open APIs and Communication Protocols

Comment: IEC-61499 is open and interoperable by design. From within IEC-61499, interfaces to other platforms can be developed in C++ to generate specific APIs. Other platforms wanting to interact over an IEC-61499 communication bus can easily implement the protocols without changing their internal programming.

Integration level interoperability

Comment: IEC-61499 established both a programming language and the rules for open communication protocols for real-time control over distributed applications. Interaction between non real-time and real-time IIoT could be guaranteed through the standard.

Semantic/information interoperability

Comment: Orchestration development framework. IEC 61499: Supervised orchestration of distributed devices. Daedalus: SDK to design optimal distributed control solutions

Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols

Comment: IEC-61499: Real-time (non strict) and pre-defined topology. Daedalus: Auto-discovery and auto-binding over strict real-time

APIs and Integration Protocols

Comment: A cross-platform acceptance of IEC-61499 for the real-time control domain for distributed applications guarantees an open and interoperable way of putting together different platform over this specific aspect.

Real-time communication capability

Cybersecurity

Comment: Strong attention will be given to augmenting the auto-binding and auto-configuration functionalities of the IEC-61499 technology with specific security-related mechanisms

Scalability

Comment: The whole concept of “orchestrated distributed automation” enabled by IEC-61499 has been structure to sustain scalability, also in face of big data elaboration issues.

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

01-01-2015

01-01-2019

Calltopic: FoF.NMPB.2014.5

: 10 | : 6

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Description the products are still in essence simple in nature, with no capability for adapting to the consumers’ needs and no integrated methods exist for the holistic acquisition and processing of feedback information
ICP4Life Designer Component Result description Furthermore, it will perform a link to different specific legacy CAX tools to circulate the information flow and data sharing or management. Result comments Furthermore, it will perform a link to different specific legacy CAX tools to circulate the information flow and data sharing or management.
Semantic/information interoperability Taxon title Semantic/information interoperability Search keywords Semantic information interoperability
Data storage Taxon description Data storage is the recording (storing) of information (data) in a storage medium.

ICT performance characteristics

Data communication and interoperability

Comment: Several communication technologies depending on the service: Ethernet, OPC, OPC UA

Application level interoperability

Web-services / Composability

Comment: Platform is devided in several components: front ends, backends, repositories.... Frontend is a portal composed of several portlets in liferay. Backend is a webservice communicated with the frontend on REST using JSON

Integration level interoperability

Semantic/information interoperability

Comment: The platform is based on a semantic database where products, sensors, services, patterns and instances are linked. Their fuctionalities, characteristics and models are also linked one with each other.

Data/object model interoperability - Data exchange formats - APIs

Comment: The services work mainly with machine data while the platform uses all type of file extensions (dwg, pdf,..) and text.

Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols

Comment: The components of the platform are connected to the knowledge repository via API and with other sub-components via function calls

DIGICOR | Decentralised Agile Coordination Across Supply Chains

01-10-2016

30-09-2019

Calltopic: FoF.2016.11

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Periodic Reporting for period 1 - DIGICOR (Decentralised Agile Coordination Across Supply Chains) Result description To develop an infrastructure allowing direct interconnection of distributed information systems of all supply chain members by semantic-based authentication / authorization approaches.
D5.10 DIGICOR Data Models Implementation Result comments Semantic/information interoperability APIs and Integration Protocols Dynamic IT connections to new supply chain partners
Semantic/information interoperability Taxon title Semantic/information interoperability Search keywords Semantic information interoperability Comments The Data Maps will be offered as microservices to address the semantic and syntactic interoperability issues.
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.

ICT performance characteristics

Data communication and interoperability

Platform level interoperability

AAA - Access, Authorisation and Authentication

Comment: KeyCloak - based on Standards (OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0 and SAML 2.0)

User Acccess and Rights Management

Comment: KeyCloak based Identity and Access Management of platform of DIGICOR Platform

Application level interoperability

Comment: DIGICOR applications are developed as standalone plug-and-play tools with dedicated interfaces. External applications (e.g. production planning, schedulling, workflow management etc) can also be deployed on DIGICOR toolstore

Modular Design and Deployment Approaches

Comment: Docker based application packaging and deployment is adopted in DIGICOR

Open APIs and Communication Protocols

Comment: Communication with middleware is supported by open data model to be developed.

Integration level interoperability

Comment: External applications can communicate with OPC-UA based middleware (subject to authentication etc) to ingest data e.g. from factories

Semantic/information interoperability

Comment: The communication middleware in the DIGICOR platform will be based on OPC-UA standard. In order to facilitate the flow of data to and from the middleware, the project will develop Data (harmonisation and transformation) Maps. The Data Maps will be offered as microservices to address the semantic and syntactic interoperability issues. In addition, standardised service interfaces will be defined to allow the discovery and enactment of services within the DIGICOR Platform.

Results:

D5.10 DIGICOR Data Models Implementation

Data/object model interoperability - Data exchange formats - APIs

Comment: Gateway (interfaces with external applications, built on top of middleware.

APIs and Integration Protocols

Comment: DIGICOR Toolstore can host external/standalone applications

Results:

D5.8: Data access API & Reference data store (Final Release)

D5.10 DIGICOR Data Models Implementation

Cybersecurity

Comment: DIGICOR will develop holistic security and governance mechanisms to ensure the access, data transfer and collaborations are protected at the platform level. Some of the security mechanisms being developed in the project include: Advanced pairing-based cryptography (e.g., Attribute-Based Encryption-ABE), Semantic multi-aspect access and usage control, Security-aware workflow verification & adaptation for inherent compliance, Integration of security protocols with IPR management and adaptations of DRM technologies for document management

vf-OS | Virtual Factory Open Operating System

01-10-2016

30-09-2019

Calltopic: FoF.2016.11

: 30 | : 0

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vfOS - ID5.3a - Data Harmonisation(M18) Result description The deliverable represents the functionalities of the semantic-based data harmonisation services. Result comments result_rcn_EC deliverableType_EC Other Semantic/information interoperability
Semantic/information interoperability Taxon title Semantic/information interoperability Search keywords Semantic information interoperability
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.
Information and 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.

ICT performance characteristics

Cybersecurity

Comment: vf-OS will develop a concept for privacy and security handling, and will ensure that the concept is applicable to and followed by all vf-OS components. It will consider existing approaches (e.g. encryption), the specific requirements of the manufacturing domain, and the need for data security.

Results:

vfOS - ID4.4a - Security & Data Access(M18)

Privacy

Data communication and interoperability

Platform level interoperability

AAA - Access, Authorisation and Authentication

Comment: Centralised token based security framework for REST APIs.

User Acccess and Rights Management

Comment: REST APIs for role based access management and security policy

Application level interoperability

Modular Design and Deployment Approaches

Comment: Dockerised components to adapt a vf-OS Platform instance to the requirements of a specific tenant

Open APIs and Communication Protocols

Comment: Middleware providing messaging and Pub/Sub Services to all components. Virtual Factory Devices Drivers and Open APIs, a set of modules that provide interfaces to physical assets (eg, Sensors) and virtual assets (eg, ERP systems and data) and ease their use in vf-OS

Integration level interoperability

Comment: The vf-OS publish-subscribe middleware will provide the data infrastructure and will be fully compatible with major industry standards (i.e. JBI, SCA, BPEL or WSDL). IO Toolkit to implement connectors to devices or business software and specific implementations for OPC UA and MQTT. Other standards as ANSI/ISA-95 will be followed.

Semantic/information interoperability

Results:

vfOS - ID5.3a - Data Harmonisation(M18)

APIs and Integration Protocols

Comment: The IO Toolkit implements clients to the REST vf-OS kernel and middleware services facilitating the integration of virtually any technology

SatisFactory | A collaborative and augmented-enabled ecosystem for increasing SATISfaction and working experience in smart FACTORY environments

01-01-2015

31-12-2017

Calltopic: FoF.NMPB.2014.4

: 53 | : 29

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Description The solution aggregates a set of heterogeneous smart devices and sensors, and extracts context-aware information based on their measurements.
DELIVERABLE D1.3 - SatisFactory Common Information Data Exchange Model Result title SatisFactory Common Information Data Exchange Model
SatisFactory Common Information Data Exchange Model Result title SatisFactory Common Information Data Exchange Model
DELIVERABLE D3.1 Semantically-enriched framework for analysis and design of dynamically evolving shop floor operations Result description This framework provides a light weight and full semantic interoperability to support User Interaction with the Context aware engine and the Decision Support System (Task 3.5).
Middleware + Ontology Management Result comments Information and communication Semantic/information interoperability Semantic web standards IoT enabled SCADA, MOM-MES, ERP (…) connectivity
Semantic/information interoperability Taxon title Semantic/information interoperability Search keywords Semantic information interoperability
Number of new skills and/or job profles Comments supervising the respective AR equipment that is employed within the industrial facility, and ensuring its proper operation, as well as, educating and providing the stakeholders with all the necessary information

Data communication and interoperability

Integration level interoperability

Semantic/information interoperability

Results:

Middleware + Ontology Management

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

11-01-2015

31-10-2018

Calltopic: FoF.NMPB.2015.11

: 13 | : 5

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Architecture for data models and information exchange Result title Architecture for data models and information exchange
Formal capability model and resource description Result description The resource description utilizes semantic capability model, which is developed to represent the functionalities of the resources.
Capability catalogue Result comments result_rcn_EC deliverableType_EC Other Web Ontology Language (OWL) Semantic/information interoperability
Semantic/information interoperability Taxon title Semantic/information interoperability Search keywords Semantic information interoperability
Web Ontology Language (OWL) Taxon description The W3C Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a Semantic Web language designed to represent rich and complex knowledge about things, groups of things, and relations between things.

Data communication and interoperability

Integration level interoperability

Semantic/information interoperability

Results:

Capability catalogue

BEinCPPS | Business Experiments in Cyber Physical Production Systems

11-01-2015

31-10-2018

Calltopic: FoF.ICT.2015.09.a_Innovation

: 40 | : 5

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EUSKADI industrial Champion Result description exchange of virtual part information.
Rhône-Alpes Champion: The Smart Mold Result comments Human Machine Interfaces Data visualization based on FIWARE Wirecloud widgets Data communication and interoperability OPC-UA for M2M communication, and NGSI for data publishing on the cloud Semantic/information
Semantic/information interoperability Taxon title Semantic/information interoperability Search keywords Semantic information interoperability
Cybersecurity Taxon description Security for information and infrastructure related to digital systems

ICT performance characteristics

Data communication and interoperability

Results:

Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality

Rhône-Alpes Champion: The Smart Mold

Comment: OPC-UA for M2M communication, and NGSI for data publishing on the cloud

Integration level interoperability

Semantic/information interoperability

Results:

Rhône-Alpes Champion: The Smart Mold

Comment: All the information is stored in a single context in the Orion Context Broker.

Data/object model interoperability - Data exchange formats - APIs

Results:

Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality

Comment: OPC UA Address Space for Testing Stations

Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols

Results:

Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality

Comment: OPC UA, NGSI

Real-time communication capability

Cybersecurity

Results:

Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality

Comment: Encryption of all Factory-Cloud data channels (HTTPS). Google authentication for Android applications.

Project: ReCaM

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Updated at: 15-07-2019

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Semantic/information interoperability Taxon title Semantic/information interoperability Search keywords Semantic information interoperability

Data communication and interoperability

Integration level interoperability

Semantic/information interoperability

BeinCPPS_SmartMold | Rhône-Alpes Champion: The Smart Mold

Project: BEinCPPS

Type:

Updated at: 15-07-2019

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Semantic/information interoperability Taxon title Semantic/information interoperability Search keywords Semantic information interoperability

Data communication and interoperability

Comment: OPC-UA for M2M communication, and NGSI for data publishing on the cloud

Integration level interoperability

Project: DIGICOR

Type:

Updated at: 01-12-2019

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Description To develop an infrastructure allowing direct interconnection of distributed information systems of all supply chain members by semantic-based authentication / authorization approaches.