WP1: The Ethics Assessment work package lasts throughout the duration of the project and covers a continuous monitoring of potential ethical issues within the project. Respective deliverables have been filed within the first reporting period based on checks at the beginning of the project about three required ethics issues criteria. The continuously monitoring of these checks throughout the project and updating them accordingly was carried out in RP2.
WP2: A final revision of the user requirements took place. Monitoring the progress of the technical developments in the different use-cases was carried out. The initial deployment plan of the iQonic system was finalised, use case scenarios adapted and respective design of system operational environments took place while s/w and h/w components delivery estimation was finalised, and the RQ quality status was refined.
WP3: The requirements of optoelectric functionalities in different micro-optics assemblies and use cases has been analyzed. The assembly and disassembly processes were finalized and defined. The design and development of the process chain design model defining also the data exchange and the interfaces between h/w and s/w components is under final preparations. Moreover, a visual inspection infrastructure is developed to annotate possible defects from the components during the assembly process chain. The design of smart tagging to use, store and retrieve component, assembly, and assembly station specific data automatically is carried out.
WP4: The components "Sensor Network", "Electronic Nose", "Adaptive Optics scanning Microscope", "flexible handling Tool", and "KBS" have been implemented in their lab environments and tested, connection to the middleware was established.
WP5: A "Defect severity and decision support DSS or optimum response to defect" was establied and first introduced to the PRIMA use case. Techniques for product reuse and requalification were applied to the PRIMA and the BRIGHTERWAVE use cases mainly. The Cyber-Physical System (CPS) for product reuse and requalification was applied to the PRIMA use case, while an end-of life management and decision support for reverse supply chain RSC was established in general for the photonics manufacturing process chain.
WP6: An early malfunction detection and prediction inference engine was implemented on PRIMA and ALPES use case data-logs, deriving single station near real-time defect assessment models mainly for the ALPES use case, while the event modelling for fast forward cost functions and validation of KPIs was applied to the PRIMA use case. The respective results were interfaced with MES and other higher level management systems.
WP7: Integration of software – hardware platforms was conducted, in particular for the ficonTEC bonder platform to be used in several use cases. Planning for the technology validation and solution validation through demonstration in relevant environment was done.
WP8: The iQonic technologies were validated vs. the use case. 68% of "factorial" KPI's were fully or partially achieved, and 81% of technical KPI's were fully or partially achieved. Based on that lessons learned as well as a roadmap have been derived.
WP9: The development of the Plan for the Exploitation and Dissemination of Results was continued, several instruments, activities, events, and thematic workshops have been attended, activities for exploitation have been conducted and discussion about a Joint Venture establishment started. Within innovation management potential emerging markets for the iQonic photonics manufacturing architecture have been identified. Knowledge management, the Data Management Plan & IPR Protection were followed-up.
WP10: Project management was done by means of various online WP-thematic meetings as well as general assembly meetings online and in presence, with the challenge of handling the Covid pandemic issues troughout most of the duration of the project.
