Over the first 18 months of the project, initial achievements in both the technical and scientific parts of the project have been accompished as follows.
FLEX4RES Architecture
The FLEX4RES platform includes key technologies such as the Asset Administration Shell (AAS), Digital twins, and Data space concept (Gaia-X and International Data Spaces). The Digital Twin concept is implemented using the Asset Administration Shells. The goal was to successfully integrate these technologies, ensuring they work well together across different manufacturing environments, by taking into consideration requirements from the use cases and the pre-pilot cases.
Resilience Assessment Toolbox
The Resilience Assessment toolbox aims to provide tools that will assess resilience at different levels — macro, meso and micro levels. Different tools have been designed using different methodologies. Some methodologies that are used are: 1) Penalty of Change, 2) Severity of Failure, 3) Value Stream method , and 4) Bayesian Networks.
Reconfiguration Strategies Toolbox
The reconfiguration strategies toolbox aims to provide a set of reconfiguration tools to support manufacturers quickly adapt to changes by providing plans for reconfiguring production lines, supply chains, or even entire factories. The tools were designed to work seamlessly with the resilience assessment outputs, ensuring that any necessary reconfiguration is both timely and effective.
Pilot Testing and Validation
Finally, pre pilot cases have been designed and integration is in progress to USI, IFT, LMS, PTW and IDE facilities. The goal is to have some first results, by setting up the infrastructure and validating the resilience assessment and reconfiguration strategies tools.
