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Manufacturing Collaboration by leveraging MIP and PLM Capabilities |
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The European Commision is collaborating with several industry partners to realize their vision for the ‘Factories of the Future’. Research in context of that vision is focusing on maintaining manufacturing information and providing technology to realize better cooperation of participators within the manufacturing process. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is typically an information strategy, providing a platform to repeatable manage all processes concerning product and manufacturing process data enabling enterprises to transform their business strategy. This enterprise wide access to product information and processes is covering subject matter areas starting from Ideation and continues over Design and Research down to Manufacturing and finally Service. A combination of the ‘Factories of the Future’ vision and the PLM strategy will greatly extend anticipated benefits. |
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| April 2014 | |||
Intermediate Review meeting demonstrating Use-Case 1 |
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The FoFdation project partners gathered on the 13th of February at Ecolé Centrale (ECN) in Nantes, France for an intermediate review meeting. Project partners along with the Project Officer Mr. Rolf Riemenschneider and four external reviewers Thomas Baer (Daimler), Christoph Hanisch (Festo), Christos Emmanouilidis (CETI/R.C.) and Dominique Laffret (Missler) attended. The review meeting focused on two main topics: first of all the overall project status and the project progress and secondly focused on demonstrating some of the project results being applied in a use-case demonstration scenario. This first Airbus Use-Case scenario revolved around of two project results: the Smart Machine Controller (SMC) and Smart Manufacturing Optimiser (SMO). |
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| February 2014 | |||
Demonstrating the next generation of Smart Machine Controllers |
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During the last three and half years, the FoFdation project consortium has investigated on how the next generation machine tool controller will “close the gap” between the designer, the manufacturing engineer and the shop floor. The consortium agreed on the opinion that STEP-NC would also have had an important role in that. |
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| January 2014 | |||
Manufacturing Collaboration with Suppliers throughout the extended Enterprise |
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On the way to the factory of the future (FoFdation) one of the first and obvious tasks is to integrate the shopfloor with the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) backbone, which in the end should aim to unify the physical and the virtual worlds in manufacturing. Furthermore another level of diversity needs to be overcome along the value chain. For many years manufacturing companies have been adopting various strategies to optimize their value chain and specific lean production methodologies were introduced to reduce internal complexity and to help outsourcing specific manufacturing tasks to selected suppliers and their factories. These are specialized on certain areas and can fulfill the requirements on quality, speed, price and flexibility. |
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| December 2013 | |||
5th General Assembly Meeting |
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The FoFdation project partners gathered on 5th and 6th of December in Paris to review progress after 42 months of project life time and the planning of the last 6 months of the project. |
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Smart Enterprise Content Management through a Dashboard information system for Performance prediction & indicators: A First Prototype |
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Smart Enterprise Content Management (SECM) is a new concept based on prototype software proposed in the FoFdation project which addresses sustainability issues through the visualization and processing of production data. A sustainability Dashboard along with various adapters is proposed to this end. The Dashboard allows the visualization of sustainability indicators thus supporting decision making at the management level, while the adapters are used to integrate other project’s development outcomes such as Smart Manufacturing Execution System or to interconnect seamlessly with external systems, such as ERP and PLM. |
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| September 2013 | |||
Information Must Flow - ARTIS at EMO 2013 |
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Process monitoring systems for metal-cutting operations safeguard workflow stability in many production environments. ARTIS is continuously active in research associations working on the optimization of information flows in production processes. |
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| July 2013 | |||
The Smart Machine Controller: is it the next generation controller? |
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In today’s industry we do not have a unique and clear definition of what a Smart Machine Controller (SMC) is or should be. In other industrial fields, the consumer market mainly, a smart “device” is a component that generally presents more advanced computing capability and connectivity than a contemporary basic device. A recent survey confirms for instance that the trend for machine tool industry instead is unifying different machine functions on a single controller and lowering overall total installed costs. |
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| June 2013 | |||
Digital Agenda: European Commission to give €77 million boost for high-tech manufacturing sector and SMEs |
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The European Commission is launching a new € 77 million innovation initiative for the manufacturing sector, designed to help high-tech small & medium size enterprises (SMEs) exploit the potential of ICTs to grow their businesses. |
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| May 2013 | |||
The development of a dashboard monitoring productivity and sustainability |
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A step towards controlling a Manufacturing System is to monitor it. Thus, the consortium of the FoFdation project have decided to implement a Dashboard system to aid the management decision in the framework of a sustainable production. |
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| April 2013 | |||
The Smart Enterprise Content Management: Progress on research, implementations and demonstration |
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9 people representing 6 beneficiaries of the collaborative FoFdation project met in January 2013 to present and discuss the status of the research and implementations to date on the Smart Enterprise Content Management (SECM). The SECM is a new generation of Content Management Systems which aims to meet sustainability goals through visualization with the help of a dashboard and adapters linking this platform to various entities, such as ERP and PLM. |
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| March 2013 | |||
ARTIS and CRF demonstrate FIAT Use Case in FoFdation project with CTM process monitoring solution |
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Demonstration of the first FoFdation results was planned for March 2013 at CRF, Centro Ricerche FIAT, in Orbassano, Italy. ARTIS’ role was to set up and use the SMO, Smart Manufacturing Optimiser, which is to be used to meet FIAT sustainability goals. |
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| March 2013 | |||
Debriefing of 2nd Review Meeting |
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The 16 beneficiaries of the collaborative FoFdation project recently held their 2nd Progress Review Meeting in Brussels, Belgium, at the premises of the European Commission. Coordinated by Airbus, the project is now in its third year, focusing on addressing today’s major challenges for manufacturing companies, operating under productivity pressures, greater product variability and environmental constraints. |
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| February 2013 | |||
Integration of EDM devices to modern manufacturing environments through a smart process control and automated management systems |
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Modern manufacturing environments have to answer to critical issues regarding productivity, connectivity, precision and flexibility in order to satisfy increasingly dynamic markets and exponential growth in segments related to ICT, electronics, mechanics, aerospace and medical industries. |
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Smart Manufacturing Optimizer: Sixth meeting of Work Package 4 at ETHZ |
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23 people representing 11 beneficiaries of the collaborative FoFdation project (The Foundation for the Smart Factory of the Future) met on 20th and 21st of February 2013 in Zurich at ETHZ (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich) to present and discuss the status of the research and experiments within the Work Package 4. |
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The Smart Manufacturing Execution System in FoFdation: Progress on research, implementations and demonstration |
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A New Manufacturing Information Framework |
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Ubiquitous IT (Manufacturing Information Pipeline, MIP) and the Philosophy of the Extended Enterprise |
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| January 2013 | |||
Testing the Next-Generation CNC machine-tool |
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The Next Step in FoFdation: Setting-up Demonstrators Results of Research and Experiments will be Integrated |
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Realizing the Next-Generation CNC machine-tool |
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Development and assessment of methods for defining, monitoring and controlling KPIs for sustainable production processes |
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| November 2012 | |||
FoFdation project partners Artis and Delcam just finished a three day workshop in Birmingham to run the first set of machining experiments to validate the initial research outcomes of the 4th Work Package |
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| October 2012 | |||
FoFdation consortium partners gather for 4th General Assembly meeting to update on progress and results so far |
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| July 2012 | |||
CIRP Conference on Intelligent Computation in Manufacturing Engineering, |
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WP 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7 Meetings, Isle of Ischia, Italy |
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| December 2011 | |||
FoFdation Project Partners Discuss the Foundation for the Smart Factory of the Future with the European Commission |
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Members of the FoFdation project recently held their third General Assembly meeting in Toulouse, France from 14th–15th December 2011 at the premises of coordinating partner AIRBUS. The FoFdation project is addressing today’s major challenges for manufacturing companies, operating under productivity pressures, greater product variability and environmental constraints. |
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| June 2011 | |||
4th Work Package of the European “FoFdation” Project aims at developing innovative technologies to predict and control lead times and surface quality in milling processes |
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Delcam hosted the inaugural meeting of the 4th work package of the 10 M€ FoFdation project funded by the European Commission in Alicante, Spain. As the coordinating partner of this work package Delcam is combining its experience and expertise in manufacturing with eight other technical partners from six countries across Europe to capture and monitor the dynamic behaviour of milling machines to increase predictability in terms of surface quality and lead times. |
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| November 2010 | |||
Tekniker-IK4 coordinates the design of a universal information system valid for any production system |
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| October 2010 | |||
Tekniker-IK4 contribution to the “factory of the future” EU funded FoFdation project |
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| July 2010 | |||
Working group of the European “FoFdation” Project meet again to discuss machine tool and process parameters which affect lead times and surface quality in milling processes |
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| June 2010 | |||
European “FoFdation” Project aims at the universal information system foundation for sustainable manufacturing in the ‘Factory of the Future’ |
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