1. ICT performance characteristics
  2. Data communication and interoperability
  3. Integration level interoperability
  4. Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols

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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

Calltopic: FoF.2016.11

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  Intrafactory interoperability layer I Result title Intrafactory interoperability layer I
  Intrafactory interoperability layer II Result title Intrafactory interoperability layer I
  Interoperability for M2M & HMI in factory environments I Result description The machine to machine communication protocols that are used in manufacturing are described in detail.
  Interoperability for M2M & HMI in factory environments II Result description The machine to machine communication protocols that are used in manufacturing are described in detail. 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
  Wireless communication protocols Taxon title Wireless communication protocols Search keywords communication protocols
  APIs and Integration Protocols Taxon description Other architectures being used as Integratio Protocols in Digital Manufacturing Platforms are JSON (for its near real time capabilities) and MQ (message bus architectures).
  Lessons learned Comments Early design decisions on deployment and communication protocols were made. (Docker, MQTT, AMQP).
    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

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

01-10-2016

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30-09-2019

Calltopic: FoF.2016.11

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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)
  Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols Taxon title Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols Search keywords Connectivity network interoperability communication protocols
  Data acquisition Taxon description acquisition applications are usually controlled by software programs developed using various general purpose programming languages So, as a summary, Data acquisition is in itself a vast group of protocols
  Data communication and interoperability Comments Leveraging reference heterogeneous communications and networking architecture to support connectivity & data management in CPPS.
    Cybersecurity
    Comment: CPPS validation & verification (CPPS cloudified control performance simulation). Open trusted CPPS
    Resilience
    Comment: Wireless resilient communications (5G & Wirelesshart).

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

01-10-2016

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30-09-2019

Calltopic: FoF.2016.11

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Title Collaboration Network for Industry, Manufacturing, Business and Logistics in Europe
Description NIMBLE: collaboration Network for Industry, Manufacturing, Business and Logistics in Europe will develop the infrastructure for a cloud-based, Industrie 4.0, Internet-of-things-enabled B2B platform on
  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 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
  Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols Taxon title Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols Search keywords Connectivity network interoperability communication protocols
  AAA - Access, Authorisation and Authentication Taxon description Unauthorized access could be someone who has been able to access the network from the outside, performing actions that have not been authorized and cannot be justified.
  Supply chain management accross factories from different companies Comments A platform both for supply network partners (suppliers, manufacturers, logistics providers) and industrial software providers Supply network partners can discover each other and start doing business,
    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

    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.

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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  Next generation of IEC-61499 automation tool-chain Result description among the IEC 61499 network near-real-time bidirectional connectivity to the in-Cloud behavioural models of the CPS  
  Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols Taxon title Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols Search keywords Connectivity network interoperability communication protocols
  APIs and Integration Protocols Taxon description Other architectures being used as Integratio Protocols in Digital Manufacturing Platforms are JSON (for its near real time capabilities) and MQ (message bus architectures).
  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.
    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
        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
        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.
    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

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01-01-2019

Calltopic: FoF.NMPB.2014.5

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Description The ICP4Life project will address the current needs of today’s manufacturers, providing faster design of modular equipment and components, the seamless collaboration of engineers across a wider network
  ICP4Life Designer Component Result description Hence, the Designer component will act as a connector among different domain engineers, including PSS top managers, to facilitate their communication, data management, decision making, etc. Result comments Connected Enterprises - Factories #Service, #Connectivity: Designer component will act as a connector among different domain engineers, including PSS top managers, to facilitate their communication, data
  Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols Taxon title Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols Search keywords Connectivity network interoperability communication protocols
  Added Value from user perspective Taxon description In general, digital platforms offer added-value basd upon three main mechanisms: Reduction of transaction costs Network effects Use of data integration for new services

FAR-EDGE | Factory Automation Edge Computing Operating System Reference Implementation

01-10-2016

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30-09-2019

Calltopic: FoF.2016.11

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  Report on Dissemination and Communication Activities - M6 release Result title Report on Dissemination and Communication Activities - M6 release Result description s dissemination and communication activities. It reflects the outcomes of task T8.1. This is the first of four incremental releases.
  Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols Taxon title Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols Search keywords Connectivity network interoperability communication protocols
  AAA - Access, Authorisation and Authentication Taxon description Unauthorized access could be someone who has been able to access the network from the outside, performing actions that have not been authorized and cannot be justified.
  Data communication and interoperability Comments In FAR-EDGE, OPC UA will be one of the field communication technology supported.
    ICT performance characteristics
    Data communication and interoperability
    Comment: According to the RAMI 4.0 architecture, the “standard” way for Industrie 4.0 platforms to integrate legacy equipment (or any other kind of legacy “object”, including software components) into will be to encapsulate them inside an ad-hoc Administration Shell wrapper, which will expose them as I4.0 Components. The I4.0 interface specification has not been published yet, but a key enabling technology will probably be OPC UA, used as both a communication protocol and a data meta-model. In FAR-EDGE, OPC UA will be one of the field communication technology supported.
      Integration level interoperability
      Comment: AutomationML, SenseML, OPC UA.
        Data/object model interoperability - Data exchange formats - APIs
        Comment: The system blueprint is the FAR-EDGE RA. After having defined the requirements and the constraints for each block of the RA, a thorough analysis of the SotA has been done, which led to the identification of some existing software components meeting the specs. We then identified the gaps that the project will need to fill-in: not surprisingly, these where all the key enabling technologies, like the distributed ledger. However, hardly anything is going to be built totally from scratch in FAR-EDGE. The distributed ledger, for example, will be a customization of a generic, open source Blockchain platform (Hyperledger Fabric). Following the high-level functional decomposition defined in the FAR-EDGE RA, three Open APIs will be exposed by the Cloud layer of the FAR-EDGE Platform: Automation, Virtualization and Analytics. Automation will provide endpoints to monitor, control and manage automation workflows deployed on the Edge layer. Virtualization will create hooks for external simulation tools that need to read and manage factory models deployed on the Cloud layer (that are kept in-sync with the real world by the lower layers). Analytics will allow to manage distributed data analysis processes running on the Edge layer, and to collect aggregated results.
        Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols
        Comment: The FAR-EDGE architecture defines a protocol abstraction layer (the “connectivity middleware” box in the diagram provided here – this name is provisional) to decouple the field from its Edge Computing infrastructure: this is where OPC UA compatibility is going to be introduced.

FACTS4WORKERS | Worker-Centric Workplaces in Smart Factories

01-12-2014

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01-12-2018

Calltopic: FoF.NMPB.2014.4

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  Periodic Reporting for period 2 - FACTS4WORKERS (Worker-Centric Workplaces in Smart Factories) Result description After defining a corporate identity of the project for external communication (including project website, project folder, project templates, ..) and dissemination activities, WP7 conducted an analysis
  Open APIs and Communication Protocols Taxon title Open APIs and Communication Protocols Search keywords Communication Protocols
  Control technologies Taxon description controllers adapt the behaviour of systems to changing environments or system degradation, taking into account constraints and considering alternatives, hereby relying on robust industrial real-time communication

PERFoRM | Production harmonizEd Reconfiguration of Flexible Robots and Machinery

10-01-2015

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30-09-2018

Calltopic: FoF.NMPB.2015.11

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Description and standardization of methods and protocols to enable the plug-and-produce readiness in heterogeneous environments.On the other hand, real industrial and business impacts, can be achieved by careful
  Report on decentralized control & Distributed Manufacturing Operation Systems for Flexible and Reconfigurable production environments Result description This covers the communication between these tools, which is based on industrial as well as IT communication protocols along with the data representation standards used.
  Information and communication technologies Taxon title Information and communication technologies Search keywords communication
  IoT - Internet of Things Taxon description IoT) is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers (UIDs) and the ability to transfer data over a network

BEinCPPS | Business Experiments in Cyber Physical Production Systems

11-01-2015

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31-10-2018

Calltopic: FoF.ICT.2015.09.a_Innovation

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  CPPS Open Platform Result description Two groups are concerned with the CPSsisation of production systems and in particular with the improvement of their communication capability (in the direction of wired and wireless communication) and of
  Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality Result comments and interoperability Data/object model interoperability - Data exchange formats - APIs OPC UA Address Space for Testing Stations Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols OPC
  Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols Taxon title Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols Search keywords Connectivity network interoperability communication protocols
  OPC-UA Taxon description OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) is a machine to machine communication protocol for industrial automation developed by the OPC Foundation.

I-MECH | Intelligent Motion Control Platform for Smart Mechatronic Systems

01-06-2017

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31-05-2019

Calltopic: ECSEL

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Description Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) concepts will be used to achieve a high degree of configurability, scalability and interoperability of the individual components, while maintaining the reliability,
  Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols Taxon title Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols Search keywords Connectivity network interoperability communication protocols Comments Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) concepts will be used to achieve a high degree of configurability, scalability and interoperability of the individual components, while maintaining the reliability,
  Control technologies Taxon description controllers adapt the behaviour of systems to changing environments or system degradation, taking into account constraints and considering alternatives, hereby relying on robust industrial real-time communication
  Factory Equipment/Field Device Comments Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) concepts will be used to achieve a high degree of configurability, scalability and interoperability of the individual components, while maintaining the reliability,

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ZHQ | Lombardy Champion - Zero-Hours Quality

Project: BEinCPPS

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Updated at: 19-07-2019

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  Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols Taxon title Connectivity & network interoperability – communication protocols Search keywords Connectivity network interoperability communication protocols

NIMBLE-339570 | Design of an Open API for the NIMBLE Platform

Project: NIMBLE

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Updated at: 19-12-2019

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