Periodic Reporting for period 2 - openMOS (Open dynamic Manufacturing Operating System for Smart Plug-and-Produce Automation Components)
Période du rapport: 2017-04-01 au 2019-01-31
THE CHALLENGES preventing the wider introduction of plug-and-produce systems by industry and SMEs are:
1. CONNECTIVITY: Lost in translation
2. TRANSPARENCY: The information bottleneck
3. INTELLIGENCE: Trust vs control
4. AGILITY: From new product introduction until end of life
5. RESILIENCE: The changeability-variability balance
6. ECONOMY: Separation between hardware and software is restricting flexible automation
7. TRANSFORMATION: Resistance to change, diversity and high initial entry barrier
To address the identified challenges, the openMOS project addresses the following key objectives.
1. Embed automation devices and components with plug-and-produce capabilities
2. Open service-based communication Platform for secure and real time capable vertical and horizontal connectivity
3. Integrating agent-based manufacturing operating system with manufacturing service bus
4. Self-adjustment and dynamic scheduling strategies to reduce energy usage based on learned behaviour models
5. Rapid integration and self-tuning strategies for changeover time reduction
6. Industrialization and demonstration
7. Standardization, dissemination and exploitation
- User Requirements Specification (USR) for plug-and-produce systems
- Preliminary definition of Key Process Indicators (KPI) for flexible automation
- Definition of validation processes and parameters
- Continuous standardisation activities for industrial exposure and technological transfer
WP2 – Embedded Smart Plug-and-Produce Device Adapter
- PCB design and technical specification of plug-and-produce device controller
- Architecture design and first implementation of a plug-and-produce device adapter
- Plug-and-produce sensor nodes for product tracking and air quality measurements
WP3 – Open Plug-and-Produce Manufacturing Service Bus
- First version of the reference architecture for modular plug-and-produce systems
- Assessment of open standards for service bus technology
- Implementation and testing of the manufacturing service bus
- Preliminary description of the common semantic model
- RFiD system for dynamic product tracking
WP4 – Rapid Changeover and Energy Optimisation System
- Open agent-based manufacturing operation system platform
- Assessment of current database technology for model learning in high throughput systems
- Methods for energy consumption monitoring and model learning
WP5 – TRL 5-8 Plug-and-Produce Devices and Machine Demonstrators
- Implementation of a device adapter for legacy industrial systems, such as: industrial robots, PLCs and AGVs
- Technical specifications for new plug-and-produce industrial devices and machines, such as: servo axis, transport module, feeding devices and electronic assembly machines
WP6 – TRL 5-6 Cell Level Early Demonstration and Testing
- Early demonstration of openMOS technology, such as:
o Plug-and-produce device adapters;
o Integration of legacy systems;
o Service discovery and registration;
o Horizontal and vertical communication through the manufacturing service bus;
o Skill-based execution of product recipes;
o Agent instantiation of virtualised resources;
WP7 – TRL 6-7 Industrial Pilot Demonstrators
- Identification and preparation of target validation scenarios
WP8 – Dissemination
- Technical workshops (OPC UA and AutomationML)
- Conference contributions and publications
- Dissemination material, such as: website, flyer, newsletter, logo and design
- IPR protection and management
WP9 – Project Management
- Coordination
- Periodic meetings
- Financial management
- Project intranet
See https://www.openmos.eu/work-packages/ for more details on the objectives of each WP.
- Design and development of a layered skill-based reference architecture for flexible, adaptive and self-optimising production systems
- Development of an open agent-based architecture for plug-and-produce manufacturing resources and components
- Definition of a methodology to support the step required to integrate legacy devices inside new flexible systems
- Plug-in concept for sensor integration on devices
- Specification for smart devices that perform analysis, communications, data storage and control interfacing
- Global manufacturing framework supported by cloud technology, from local embedded devices to upper managerial decision making tools and vice versa
- Use of plug-and-produce methods and cyber physical device agents for faster integration and real control behaviour