Project

The project will explore how context awareness can be used to assure both self-adaptation of production systems, with integrated control & maintenance, and quality (reliability, availability, security) of SW services (QoS) implementing self-adapting solutions. Self-Learning will focus on specific needs of discrete manufacturing industry. The project will be driven by industrial application scenarios -- Business Cases, including both production equipment manufacturers and users (, addressing different aspects of self-learning (integrated) control & maintenance of complex assembly & manufacturing lines, in order to assure industrially relevant development of self-learning production systems

Objectives

The main objectives of the project is to provide a holistic approach to use context awareness to both:

  • allow for self-adaptation of production systems, integrating control & maintenance of production plants, and
  • assure highest reliability, availability and security (QoS) of distributed network infrastructure needed for such self-learning production systems aiming to merge the world of maintenance with the world of control.


Following the proposed approach, the project intends to:

  • elaborate self-learning solutions for adaptation of integrated control & maintenance, including set of prototypes of high level SW services for real-time self-learning adapter aiming to dynamically adapt
    • control parameters (both feed-forward and feedback loop parts), and/or
    • maintenance of production systems (both planning and execution), as well as
    • parameter identifier (identifying/monitoring of manufacturing/assembly processes and/or tools/parts parameters/characteristics),
  • develop a dynamic context model and a prototype of the real-time self-learning context extractor needed for self-adaptation of production systems (adaptation of SW services for parameter identifier, control and maintenance based on current context) and for QoS assurance,
  • develop a methodology for introduction of the integrated control & maintenance approach, addressing specifically organisational issues within EE using lean principles, and
  • provide a SOA infrastructure for implementation of services for the proposed self-learning production systems.
7th Framework

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