Periodic Reporting for period 2 - Change2Twin (Create and Harvest Offerings to support Manufacturing SMEs to become Digital Twin Champions)
Periodo di rendicontazione: 2021-06-01 al 2022-11-30
Change2Twin (C2T) is an H2020 I4MS project which helps manufacturing SMEs in their digitalization efforts to deploy digital twins. Digital twins are one of the big game-changers in manufacturing and allow companies to significantly increase their global competitiveness. A digital twin is a digital replica of an artefact, process or service that is so accurate that it can be used as a basis for taking decisions. The digital replica is often connected with the physical world by streams of data. Therefore, C2T offers manufacturing SMEs a tailor-made solution reaching from analysis of their potential, Individual Mentoring Plan to ready-to-use recipe for digital twin deployment. Digital Innovation Hubs, and from the end of 2022 also European Digital Innovation Hubs, are important partners in this process and facilitate the uptake of the latest digital twin technologies across the European Union.
Objective
The main ambition of Change2Twin is to ensure that 100% of manufacturing companies in Europe have access to 100% of technologies needed to deploy a digital twin.
C2T is adopting the best practices developed so far in I4MS:
• Helping manufacturing SMEs in their digitalization efforts.
• Focusing on local support provided by DIHs.
• Keeping cascade grants as accessible as possible.
Specifically, we focus on three sub-objectives:
• Developing and providing a truly end-to-end service to the manufacturing SMEs where the end user receives from its local, trusted party (DIH) a thorough analysis of the digitalization potential and a cross-border, ready-to-use recipe for implementation involving both components' providers and an integrator.
• Providing an architecture-agnostic technology marketplace with dedicated knowledge models supporting the DIH preparing the recipe for a complete solution in selecting the best components and most suitable providers for the SME.
• Finding the minimal interoperable model facilitating modularity, composability and interchangeability of components used, regardless of the individual architectures or frameworks.
C2T will/has delivered:
• 4 Pilots proving the concept and 2 Open Calls for application experiments with a selection and support programme.
• A new benchmarked service model facilitating DIHs in providing support to manufacturing companies.
• A Pan-European marketplace populated with the state-of-the-art service providers that create coverage for end-to-end digital twinning solutions.
Objective
The main ambition of Change2Twin is to ensure that 100% of manufacturing companies in Europe have access to 100% of technologies needed to deploy a digital twin.
C2T is adopting the best practices developed so far in I4MS:
• Helping manufacturing SMEs in their digitalization efforts.
• Focusing on local support provided by DIHs.
• Keeping cascade grants as accessible as possible.
Specifically, we focus on three sub-objectives:
• Developing and providing a truly end-to-end service to the manufacturing SMEs where the end user receives from its local, trusted party (DIH) a thorough analysis of the digitalization potential and a cross-border, ready-to-use recipe for implementation involving both components' providers and an integrator.
• Providing an architecture-agnostic technology marketplace with dedicated knowledge models supporting the DIH preparing the recipe for a complete solution in selecting the best components and most suitable providers for the SME.
• Finding the minimal interoperable model facilitating modularity, composability and interchangeability of components used, regardless of the individual architectures or frameworks.
C2T will/has delivered:
• 4 Pilots proving the concept and 2 Open Calls for application experiments with a selection and support programme.
• A new benchmarked service model facilitating DIHs in providing support to manufacturing companies.
• A Pan-European marketplace populated with the state-of-the-art service providers that create coverage for end-to-end digital twinning solutions.
Related to Enabling technologies for digital twins results are:
• Compilation of the standards that are relevant to the digital twin and active attendance at standardization events.
• Contribution to the EUOS report "Landscape of Digital Twin Standards”.
• TV-streamed webinar to an audience of about 300 “Create your digital twin in days, not months”. Focus on the use of standards in digital twins.
• Position paper "Digital Twin Enabling Technology Catalogue" published through the website.
• Organization of a mini-symposium at the ECCOMAS conference (5th-9th June 2022, Oslo).
• Presentations on “Barriers to Digital Twin adoption and enabling technologies” at Change2Twin Certification Workshop.
• Analysis of the maturity of the enabling technologies on the marketplace.
• Continued development on the taxonomy for digital twins.
The most significant results related to the Marketplace are:
• Advancing the Marketplace and addressing different users' requirements.
• CloudBroker platform deployed.
• Onboarding process definitions was finalised, curation guide for evaluating incoming offers to facilitate the onboarding process.
• Facilitating easy to navigate Marketplace through the website for different kind of users.
• Basic and advanced Search capabilities were introduced to the Marketplace.
• Crawler prototype was provided which allows to import offerings from external marketplaces.
• Technical solution for deployable services was implemented.
The most significant results of WP3 Pilot Experiments are:
• All 4 pilots have completed their implementation of their Digital Twins and main lessons learnt shared.
• Two Assessment tools made.
• Contribution to many dissemination activities.
The most significant results on financial support to third parties are:
• Open Call management team appointed.
• The first Open Call for Assessment Experiments were launched on schedule. 22 applications were above threshold and finally 19 Assessment Experiments were started and successfully completed.
• The first Deployment Voucher open call was launched, and 11 experiments selected for funding. As of M30, the experiments are close to completion.
• The second open call for Assessment Experiments launched and 15 assessment experiments selected for funding. The experiment execution will start in January 2023 (M32 of Change2Twin).
• Second Deployment Voucher open call prepared and launched on January 16, 2023 (Month 32). Up to 16 Deployment Experiments are expected to be funded.
Monitoring & follow-up of Assessment and Deployment Experiments:
• Organizing kick-off for the selected experiments.
• Assignment of mentors to the selected experiments.
• Successful follow up by mentors of Voucher experiments.
• Checking and approving the deliverables of experiments.
• Final Review and lessons learned for first wave of Assessment Experiments
• As of M30 the first wave Deployment experiments are in their final stage, however, some will not complete until M35.
The most significant results for sustainability, communication, and dissemination:
• Updated Plan for the Exploitation and Dissemination.
• Marketplace promotion, towards technology providers and DIHs.
• Surveys for DIHs and SMEs following end of the Assessment process.
• Extended the Change2Twin DIHs Network to 54 DIHs.
• Services dedicated to the DIH Network.
• Collaborations with other EU projects and networks.
• C2T website regularly updated.
• Preparatory activities for video testimonials with selected beneficiaries of the 1st two open calls.
• Awareness raising campaign on LinkedIn.
• Cooperation with three Change2Twin Ambassadors.
• Participation and dissemination at the physical events after COV-19.
• Change2Twin YouTube channel populated with critical mass of shareable quality content.
• Compilation of the standards that are relevant to the digital twin and active attendance at standardization events.
• Contribution to the EUOS report "Landscape of Digital Twin Standards”.
• TV-streamed webinar to an audience of about 300 “Create your digital twin in days, not months”. Focus on the use of standards in digital twins.
• Position paper "Digital Twin Enabling Technology Catalogue" published through the website.
• Organization of a mini-symposium at the ECCOMAS conference (5th-9th June 2022, Oslo).
• Presentations on “Barriers to Digital Twin adoption and enabling technologies” at Change2Twin Certification Workshop.
• Analysis of the maturity of the enabling technologies on the marketplace.
• Continued development on the taxonomy for digital twins.
The most significant results related to the Marketplace are:
• Advancing the Marketplace and addressing different users' requirements.
• CloudBroker platform deployed.
• Onboarding process definitions was finalised, curation guide for evaluating incoming offers to facilitate the onboarding process.
• Facilitating easy to navigate Marketplace through the website for different kind of users.
• Basic and advanced Search capabilities were introduced to the Marketplace.
• Crawler prototype was provided which allows to import offerings from external marketplaces.
• Technical solution for deployable services was implemented.
The most significant results of WP3 Pilot Experiments are:
• All 4 pilots have completed their implementation of their Digital Twins and main lessons learnt shared.
• Two Assessment tools made.
• Contribution to many dissemination activities.
The most significant results on financial support to third parties are:
• Open Call management team appointed.
• The first Open Call for Assessment Experiments were launched on schedule. 22 applications were above threshold and finally 19 Assessment Experiments were started and successfully completed.
• The first Deployment Voucher open call was launched, and 11 experiments selected for funding. As of M30, the experiments are close to completion.
• The second open call for Assessment Experiments launched and 15 assessment experiments selected for funding. The experiment execution will start in January 2023 (M32 of Change2Twin).
• Second Deployment Voucher open call prepared and launched on January 16, 2023 (Month 32). Up to 16 Deployment Experiments are expected to be funded.
Monitoring & follow-up of Assessment and Deployment Experiments:
• Organizing kick-off for the selected experiments.
• Assignment of mentors to the selected experiments.
• Successful follow up by mentors of Voucher experiments.
• Checking and approving the deliverables of experiments.
• Final Review and lessons learned for first wave of Assessment Experiments
• As of M30 the first wave Deployment experiments are in their final stage, however, some will not complete until M35.
The most significant results for sustainability, communication, and dissemination:
• Updated Plan for the Exploitation and Dissemination.
• Marketplace promotion, towards technology providers and DIHs.
• Surveys for DIHs and SMEs following end of the Assessment process.
• Extended the Change2Twin DIHs Network to 54 DIHs.
• Services dedicated to the DIH Network.
• Collaborations with other EU projects and networks.
• C2T website regularly updated.
• Preparatory activities for video testimonials with selected beneficiaries of the 1st two open calls.
• Awareness raising campaign on LinkedIn.
• Cooperation with three Change2Twin Ambassadors.
• Participation and dissemination at the physical events after COV-19.
• Change2Twin YouTube channel populated with critical mass of shareable quality content.
The approach for activating DIHs is different in C2T from other I4MS projects. A total of 54 (38+16) DIHs participated in the Certification Workshops that allows them to offer services for developing digital twin recipes for SMEs that apply for the 10K€ assessment vouchers call. Registered users in the C2T Community are 619 and the number of webinars/training followers on social media is 793. There has also been a much higher number of dissemination activities than planned.
With respect to technical innovations beyond state-of-the-art, there is interesting work in the now completed WP3 Pilot Experiments. One of the novel approaches developed in C2T is to create digital twins of the additive manufacturing process. Other developments in the pilot experiments include the use of photogrammetry for test data correlation on manufactured prosthetics, modelling of pallet displacement under transport using finite element modelling (FEM) and enhancing process traceability capabilities using RFID technology.
With respect to technical innovations beyond state-of-the-art, there is interesting work in the now completed WP3 Pilot Experiments. One of the novel approaches developed in C2T is to create digital twins of the additive manufacturing process. Other developments in the pilot experiments include the use of photogrammetry for test data correlation on manufactured prosthetics, modelling of pallet displacement under transport using finite element modelling (FEM) and enhancing process traceability capabilities using RFID technology.