Business Overview and Technical approach
Know4Car Consortium
Business Objectives
- The more efficient knowledge management and collaboration throughout the product lifecycle, supporting the capture, the systematic organization in the form of manufacturing templates of knowledge
- To revolutionize the UI context in the engineering office and the shop floor, with emphasis on Augmented Reality
- Faster, easier, error-free UI for data entry / checking in the shop floor along with serious games options
Technical Overview
Project Goals
Measurable objectives
- Reduce the time required for retrieving past relevant knowledge by 50%
- Reduce product / production process changes by up to 15%
- Reduce the Time to Market and associated costs by up to 20%
- Increase engineers’ productivity by up to 25%.
Main benefits for Industry and OEMs
- Efficient, web-enabled management of manufacturing process knowledge (not data only) / knowledge capture–reuse –optimize
- Improved use of standard data and knowledge exchange formats in different phases of engineering projects (templates and adoption of existing / emerging standards
- Extended use Web-based advanced UIs, with thin clients
- Further push for data compatibility and adoption of engineering standards
Technical approach
Integrated Platform comprising of four main components
- Process Knowledge Component
- Integrated Collaborative Platform
- Extended Engineering Component
- Advanced User Interfaces and Training Component
Consortium
Consortium
| Industrial | Academic and Institutes | SW companies |
|---|---|---|
| VOLVO TECHNOLOGY AB (VOLVO) |
UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS (LMS) |
SAP AG (SAP) |
| CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT SCPA (CRF) |
Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie (KIT) |
PDTEC AG (PDTec) |
| INNOVAZIONE AUTOMOTIVE E METALMECCANICA SCRL (IAM) |
FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION (Tecnalia) |
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| EDAG GMBH & CO. KGAA (EDAG) |
CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLA AB CTHA Sweden (Chalmers) |
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| N.BAZIGOS ABEE (N. BAZIGOS SA) |
