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EU funding (€3,992,631): Factory Automation Edge Computing Operating System Reference Implementation Hor 26 Sept 2016 EU Research and Innovation programme "Horizon"
Overview
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Factory Automation Edge Computing Operating System Reference Implementation
Despite the proclaimed benefits (i.e. scalability, reliability, cost-effectiveness) of Future Internet (FI) technologies (i.e. edge & cloud computing, IoT/CPS) for factory automation, their adoption from manufacturers remains low for various reasons, including technology issues (e.g., poor situation awareness, limited deployments, no standards-based reference implementations) and the lack of a smooth migration path from legacy systems. FAR-EDGE is a joint effort of leading experts in manufacturing, industrial automation and FI technologies towards the smooth and wider adoption of virtualized factory automation solutions based on FI technologies. It will research a novel factory automation platform based on edge computing architectures and IoT/CPS technologies. FAR-EDGE will provide a reference implementation of emerging standards-based solutions for industrial automation (RAMI 4.0, Industrial Internet Consortium reference architecture), along with simulation services for validating automation architectures and production scheduling scenarios. FAR-EDGE will lower the barriers for manufacturers to move towards Industrie 4.0, as a means of facilitating mass-customization and reshoring. Emphasis will be paid in the study of migration options from legacy centralized architectures, to emerging FAR-EDGE based ones. FAR-EDGE will be validated in real-life plants (VOLVO, WHIRLPOOL) in the scope of user-driven scenarios (business-cases) for mass-customization and reshoring, where tangible improvements relating to reliability, productivity increase, quality cost, reduction in adaptation effort/costs will be measured and evaluated. Also, a wide range of migration scenarios will be evaluated in the scope of a CPS manufacturing testbed. FAR-EDGE will also establish a unique ecosystem for FI factory automation solutions, which will bring together the FoF and FI communities (e.g., EFFRA, Industrie 4.0, AIOTI, ARTEMIS JU) and will ensure sustainability of FAR-EDGE results.
Funded Companies:
| Company name | Funding amount |
| Beko Italy Manufacturing Srl | €290,000 |
| Engineering - Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A. | €593,750 |
| Lulea Tekniska Universitet | €390,625 |
| Politecnico Di Milano | €343,750 |
| Research AND Education Laboratory IN Information Technologies | €323,125 |
| Scuola Universitaria Professionale Della Svizzera Italiana | €0.00 |
| Sensap Microsystems Anonimi Etairia Ilektronikon Systimaton Kai Efarmogon Logismikou | €271,875 |
| Siemens AG | €585,143 |
| Technologie - Initiative Smartfactory KL e. V. | €243,563 |
| The Open Group Ltd. | €328,976 |
| Unparallel Innovation Lda. | €308,325 |
| Volvo Lastvagnar AB | €313,500 |
Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/723094
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