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PROJECT OVERVIEW

Date of Publication: 03/09/2014
Call Identifier: H2020-FoF-2015
Objective: FOF 8 – 2015: ICT-ENABLED MODELLING, SIMULATION, ANALYTICS AND FORECASTING TECHNOLOGIES
Funding Schemes: Research & Innovation Actions
Evaluation Scheme: one stage
Closure Date: 09/12/2014

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The Insititute for Information Management in Mechanical Engineering of the RWTH Aachen University in Germany would like to participate in the Horizon-2020-FoF-2015 Call and is looking for both industrial and academic partners to build up a consortium. The aims of our proposed project are to create a holisitic platform for production planning and optimisation. Our consistent factory information model will ensure interoperability between all layers of factory automation based on light-weight web application solutions. We would to be able to draw a picture of the Factories of the Future including the interconnection of production facilities and the embedding workers and maintenance suppliers for a better life-work balance.

Proposal Outline:

One major goal of today’s manufacturing research activities is to enable Factories of the Future. Hereby, the definition and expectations regarding the Factory of the Future differ widely. In terms of our under­standing, autonomous changeability is a central characteristic of these factories, because it facilitates the manufacturing of highly customized and customer-related products even for small lot sizes. The Factory of the Future is reconfigurable concerning its processes, but is also flexible in terms of communication processes and its information and communication infrastructure.

One central, but still unresolved problem, to realize Factories of the Future is to establish production services on all levels of the company. This requires harmonizing of information models and an integrated information management that interconnects the different levels of the enterprise. A distributed service platform manages and provides these services. Further, it analyzes the different tasks and obligations and distributes the work to the matching and useable services. Managers and machine workers are accessing the same information system and receive customized information. In this way, planning, optimization, production and product development are melting into one overall process. Urgent product requests and special customer demands as well as maintenance services can be carried out in a continuous way, real-time data can influence current production processes, help optimizing short-term planning and also flows back into global ERP systems. The inter­connection of all these systems and subsystems through a generic information model opens up a completely new world of applications to make the Factory of the Future become true.

Production facilities, sensors and even products can be equipped with computer chips and wireless communication capabilities, enabling the Internet of Things for production and Cyber Physical Production Systems (CPPS). By making use of a generic information model, all devices can embed themselves ad-hoc into the production network using self-annotation and registration approaches. A web server manages all devices, recognizes their functionalities and can accordingly feed the different actors of the production environment with customized information.

Our aim is to combine the concepts of CPPS with general planning and optimization approaches of manufacturing processes. In this context, we concentrate on increasing productivity during design and ramp-up phases as well as enhancing tool interoperability and information integration for decision support purposes.

Our recent research is the creation of a platform that is capable of addressing multiple application domains of various production systems into one consistent information model. The according platform is specialized on production processes and can be enhanced by ontologies of various domains. In order to map the entire manufacturing process onto a consistent server platform, the information model intends to be capable of the

• Enrichment of sensor data and production information with annotations that are based on information models of the according application domain
• Classification of the information suitable for the different levels of an enterprise
• Information integration into suitable data storages

Premised on the described information model, the platform is realized through an integrated information management system that aims for

• Scalability using a concept that is based on (web) services
• Miscellaneous user interfaces such as mobile devices
• Emergency functions for the production environment
• Mapping of complete process chains from the management to the shop-floor levels
• Fast “on-the-fly” planning through real-time availability of the information at any place

Based on this platform out goal for the Horizon 2020- Factories of the Future Call 2015 is to provide a holisitic framework for the creation and the managing of production processes together with our partners.

PARTNER PROFILE SOUGHT
Required skills and Expertise:

• Interoperability between differnet software systems
• Interoperability of production-related hardware like sensors based on established standards like OPC/OPC-UA
• Interconnection of different information technological levels of an enterprise
• Modularization and preparation of information for customized information views based on web applications
• Development and application of Business Intelligence and decision support solutions
• Creation of Key Performance Indicators for the development of KPI cockpit

Description of work to be carried out by the partner(s) sought:

• Domain-specific knowledge for different manufacturing applications
• Information modeling based on the ontology development for certain application domains
• Virtualization of production processes by applying virtual demonstrators
• Visualisation of components for manufacturing plants during simulation
• Setup of hardware configuration for the development and testing of modern IT standards for the Factory of the Future

Type of partner(s) sought:

Industrial Partners:

Small and Medium Enterprises in the field of manufacturing: Desireably focused on customized products and on the reconfigurability of production configurations. We are looking for manufacturing enviroments that are capable of production optimisation based on smart sensor technologies, agile data exchange services and information integration.

Academic Partners:

Universities that are specialized on ICT, mechanical engineering, informatics and other key competencies for the desired call. Desireably specialized in expert and domain-specific knowledge about certain manufacturing domains. Also welcome are partners with an emphasis on ergonomics and user-centered design modeling.

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PROPOSER INFORMATION

Organisation: RWTH Aachen University
Department: Institute for Information Management in Mechanical Engineering
Type of Organisation: University
Country: Germany
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