Past Events

This session, co-hosted by the Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems and Automation - University of Patras (LMS), is expected to inform and raise awareness concerning the advantages of digital manufacturing technologies in the European Industry, focusing on the management of engineering knowledge throughout the product lifecycle. It will investigate the relevant ontology-based frameworks under development by several FoF-ICT projects for possible cross fertilization and interoperable re-use across different application areas, as well as for discussing the current technological limitations for sharing knowledge in the value chain. The objectives of this session are in line with the European Commission’s targets for infrastructures, technologies and services and for the next generation computing as described in Horizon2020 as well as in Pillar II (Interoperability & Standards) of the Digital Agenda. Given that knowledge-based systems have seen a boost recently, this session is expected to nurture actions for innovation support (including standardisation) and future RTD initiatives.

Manufacturing end-users, software developers and researchers are anticipated to take part in this session. End-users, and especially SMEs, will benefit from improving key performance values, such as faster process design, time to market and the associated costs and also by improving their processes from a human-centric point of view (affecting both engineers and operators). The developers and researchers will benefit from on-going and future initiatives related to the topic of knowledge management, since they will be primarily in charge of deploying these technologies. LMS – Uni. Patras will coordinate the involvement of the communication channels established in the EC funded MyCar and Know4Car projects (led by VOLVO) as well as in other FP7 projects, such as VFF, IMAGINE, KAP, e-Custom, FoFdation, Apps4aME and SkillPro and Almende B.V. correspondingly for the FP7 project ARUM (led by EADS), ensuring the sufficient endorsement and participation of the most relevant stakeholders.

This session will provide a clear timeline for the innovation potential (including Technology Readiness Level) of ontology-based, digital manufacturing systems to reach levels of rapid commercial use. Furthermore, the current results of relevant projects will be presented, allowing for additional feedback. Sharing ideas on knowledge management in a networking session of ICT2013 will be extremely beneficiary both for the researchers working on relevant topics as well as for the end users taking part in this session. ICT researchers and developers will have the chance to discuss common issues and limitations and to form plans for aligning their efforts. The outcome of the session will directly provide contributions to the future research and innovation policy of the ICT part in the Factory of the Future work programme.

Agenda

• Knowledge-based manufacturing (Know4Car project presentation - N. Papakostas / LMS - Uni. Patras)
• Agent-based adaptive production management (ARUM project presentation - A. Schirrmann / EADS)
• Scalable Semantic Product Data Stream Management for Collaboration and Decision Making in Engineering (SmartVortex project presentation – H.-U. Heidbrink / INCONTEC)
• FoF Projects for PLM / Digital Factory / Simulation / Optimization for the Smart Factory (D. Gorecky / DFKI)
• Horizon2020 - Opportunities for Collaboration in the area of Engineering / Manufacturing Knowledge Management (N. Papakostas / LMS - Uni. Patras)

The collaboration workshop with the Vistra consortium has taken place with main objectives to familiarize with the respective project ideas and the consortium partners and to identify intersections between the respective research activities. The output was the short and mid-term planning of the collaboration which will be managed by Volvo as the common partner.

Link to Vistra Project

Main goal: Definition of an integrated use case scenario that binds all ind. partners' cases. The ind. partners and LMS presented their alternatives and it was decided that the common ground would be turned into the final integrated use case. Furthermore, the status of the WP11 and WP12 deliverables was presented and the partners made comments to the current states and further plans. Finally, the dissemination and exploitation activities were presented and the project manager presented the plan for the following months.

Main objectives of this meeting were the agreement on the higher level architecture of the platform. The development partners presented their alternatives and the rest commented. The output was the first overall platform architecture and initial specification of the components.

CRF presented the current practices regarding shopfloor assembly operations, training of the operators and maintenance. Key points of improvement were identified and the issues to be addressed by the platform (and mainly the UIs and AR component) were discussed. Furthermore the current practices regarding knowledge management were discussed and the further requirements of CRF regarding the Knowledge base were discussed.

The first day focused on the current state of the industrial partners' cases definition and the reporting of the current output of the WP11 tasks. The output was the final plan for the finalisation of both current practices’ descriptions and running tasks. The second day was focused on discussing the plan of WP12 tasks were specific assignments to sub-tasks and partners were made. Partners also discussed their plans for WP21, 31, 41, 51, 52. Finally a presentation was given regarding current dissemination activities. The third day was focused on Volvo’s requirements were Volvo presented their requirements and feedback was exchanged.

The main objective of this meeting was the presentation of the current practices of EDAG as a European integrator. The academic and development partners inquired regarding specific steps of the production design process and EDAG provided the necessary information in the form of the involved people, tools and their interactions.

On the first day the objectives included the progress of Work Packages and industrial cases definition; the partners reviewed the current progress and discussed further plans. The second day was focused on administrative issues and the next actions were defined. SAP did a Future Factory tour for possible relations to Know4Car (technologies used, test bed, demonstration etc.).

The objectives of the Kick-Off meeting were the introduction and presentation of the partners and the discussion on the developments of each work package including the technologies to be used. The Use Case partners presented their areas of interest and what they expect from the platform as well as how and which industrial information can be used.