Volume 5October 2015 NEWSLETTER

Inside this IssueWelcome 1FASTory simulator and OilLubrication System Simulator

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XX Summer School “FrancescoTurco”

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Current Events 4

Contact 4

Science in the Streets 3

APMS 4

The eScop, “Embedded systems forService-based control of OpenManufac tur ing and P rocessAutomation”, develops a core of theManufacturing Execution System(MES) that overcomes currentproblems of system integration fromshop-floor control to factorymanagement levels by merging thepower of knowledge representation,service orientation and embeddedsystems.

DurationMarch 2013 – February 2016

Total Costs5,82 M€

Participating CountriesCzech Republic, Finland,Italy and Poland

Participating Organisations10

Project Details:

Welcome

eScop project has proceeded to its final half ayear, thus we will inform the project news in thisautumn edition of our newsletter. During thesummer and autumn the Consortium mainlyfocused on development of simulators, MESfunctions design and key performanceindicators. The project has reached its fifthmilestone, when the FASTory demonstrator wasready to run with the eScop architecture.

eScop project has also been active indisseminating the results. INDIN'15 conferencebrought researchers and experts from aroundthe globe to Cambridge, UK, in order to discussadvances of industrial informatics. eScopproject organized a special session at theconference entitled "Open, Knowledge-DrivenManufacturing Execution Systems". There weresix papers presented in the session. The scopeof the papers has revealed from differentangles the eScop architecture integratingfactory floor devices, which functionalityencapsulated as a service, into knowledge-driven and orchestrated processes.

eScop project was also presented in the firstArtemis Technology Conference, in Turin, Italy inOctober 2015. Project researcher Sergii Iarovyipresented eScop project with the title“Integration for manufacturing - eScopApproach”. The event focused on deeptechnological presentations, both on projectachievements and state-of-the-art technology.

In October, the project partners came togetherin the 6th consortium meeting in Rimini, Italy.One full day and two half days were spent onthe premises of SCM, discussing current itemsin the project. Technical workshops focused oncore system development, MES function designand implementation. In addition to thetechnical themes the consortium alsoaddressed sustainability and future potential of

the project results. The participants went deeperinto the business possibilities of eScop solutionin a business model workshop and discussedagreements on intellectual property rights.

Regarding the newsletter, we would especiallylike to draw your attention to the section abouteScop simulators on page 2. Two simulators arefreely available at the eScop website for you touse. In this edition we also share several storiesabout dissemination. As usual, current eventsand contact details can be found on the lastpage.

The goal of the newsletter is to inform you on themajor project activities and to highlight theproject achievements. You can also follow theproject via the web sitewww.escop-project.euand via our Facebook pageshttps://www.facebook.com/EscopProject.

Figure 1. The eScop book has been published

Figure 2. Consortium meeting participants in Rimini

Welcome to the fifth edition of the eScop Newsletter!

Tampere University of Technology hasbeen developing two simulators for thepurposes of the eScop project.Simulators can be used as developmentand testing environment for componentsbeing developed in the project aseducational material.

The FASTory simulator is a simulator for areal assembly line (FASTory) that is usedto assemble electronic devices. TheFASTory research laboratory is located inTampere University of Technology, and itis used to demonstrate the assembly ofmobile phones by drawing mobilephone’s main parts (case, screen andkeyboard) with different colours anddifferent shapes. The line includes themain components of a production line;robots, transportation system, tools, end-effectors, raw material, working stations,loading and unloading stations and abuffer station. The FASTory simulator isreplica for the real assembly line.

As with any simulator, theFASTory simulator is made to make lifeeasier for the users of the real line.Hence there are no physical problemsthat could occur such as power shutdown

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or mechanical issues,which continuously affectthe real assembly lines.The FASTory simulator isbuilt by the research teamworking in the eScop-project in TampereUniversity of Technology.The simulator can be usedby other partners in theeScop project to test theirtools on the line, and use itas workbench for thedevelopment process. Itcan also be used foreducational purposes byuniversity students ratherthan using the realassembly line. Asdevelopers sometimes makeerrors during their experiments, harmingthe facility can be avoided by using thesimulator. The FASTory simulator isintended to be simple to use. It can beopened using web browsers formonitoring the line. For invokingoperations, a RESTful client is used. Itcan be a stand alone web application orit can be a part of the OKD-MEScomponents. The simulator has beenused as a server, installed on a TUTserver for project partners to use. Inaddition it has been used locally bydevelopers installing it on their own localmachines. FASTory simulator enablesinvolvement of remote teams indevelopment of the MES functionality.

The Oil Lubrication System Simulator isa simulator for an Circulating OilLubrication System, which is used tolubricate heavy machinery available inprocess industries like the pulp andpaper industry. The simulator allows theuser to simulate the maintenance and

monitoring features for alubrication system. The OilLubrication System Simulatorwas developed as part of theeScop project by researchers inFAST-Laboratory at TampereUniversity of Technology,with contributions fromFluidhouse Oy. The simulatorcan be used by partners inthe eScop project to testtheir tools and use it asworkbench for thedevelopment process. Thesimulator can also be used foreducational purposes.The simulator was built to

simulate the behaviour of FluidCircFigure 4. FASTory simulator interface

systems, which is a Circulating OilLubrication Systems developed byFluidhouse Oy. Fluidhouse offersadvanced hydraulic and oil lubricationsolutions and services. The FluidCircsystem mainly consists of threecomponents:1) Lubrication Units which contain thelubrication oil in a tank, supply them tothe machines and filter the returning oilfrom machines2) Measuring Stations which group thelist of flow meters to the machine at aparticular section and3) Flow Meters which measure the flow oflubrication oil to the machine.

Like the real system, thesimulator allows the user to configureand create the system according toindividual requirements. Once created,the user can monitor several systemfactors such as oil quality, consumption,etc. It is possible to speed forwardsimulation during the monitoring, andalso to add or remove flow meters toobserve the changes to the system. Thesimulator also provides RESTful clientbased RTU’s with events and services,which can be used for implementingother higher level monitoring systems.The simulator is available as open source.

Both simulators are available online athttp://www.escop-project.eu/tools/

Figure 3. FASTory line and FASTory simula-tor structures

Figure 1. FASTory simulator interface

Figure 6. Oil Lubrication Simulator architecture

Figure 5. Oil Lubrication Simulator monitoring screen

XX Summer School “Francesco Turco” in Naples, Italy

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The 2015 edition of the XXSummerschool Francesco Turco washeld between 16th to 18th September2015 in the beautiful scenery of theSanta Chiara Monumental Complex inNaples, Italy. It has taken place with thetitle “Operational ExcellenceExperience”.

Politecnico di Milano, as eScop member,presented a paper, entitled ”Approachfor the use of ontologies for KPIcalculation in the manufacturingdomain”. The concept presented in thepaper was to present the ontologicalbasis of an industry 4.0 manufacturingsystem as a decision support technology.In particular, the example of decisionthat could be supported by the use ofontologies of the manufacturing domainis the calculation of production-relatedKPIs, for which ontologies are moresuitable than the relational databases.

The presented work was a follow-up of a

previous research work focused onontologies for the manufacturingdomain, that had investigated therole of ontologies and the bestlanguages in which they should berepresented in order to reach theirfull potential in the manufacturingdomain. The work provided aninsight of the possible use ofontologies as information supportto decision making in the control

and management of productionsystems. This is done with the useof queries to retrieve information

stored in the ontology knowledge base asa support to decision making and to thecomputation of numerical KPIs (KeyPerformance Indicators) related withproduction with an ontology-basedapproach to the automated computationof KPIs considering the different levels ofgranularity and aggregation of themanufacturing system.

The idea of the KPI calculation of thepaper springs from the fact thatontologies not only offer a way to storedata but also a way to structure them,with the characteristics that it is aware ofthe data structure it is offering. In fact,ontologies are not the only alternative tostore knowledge, e.g. the well-known andspread databases could also have thesame role. However, the objectorientation and the inheritance typical ofthe ontologies allow them to offer morethan databases. In fact, databasesrepresent data; while ontologiesrepresent objects and the relationshipsamong them. This means that ontologies

do not rely on availability of informationbecause the relationships betweenconcepts are already predefined.Moreover, decision makers inmanufacturing companies may not beaware of the structure of the knowledgestored in the knowledge base: indatabases, to query it you must becompletely aware of it, in ontologies youdo not need it because the ontology itselfis aware of the knowledge structure andmay be able to navigate the differentgranularity levels of a plant withoutrequiring decision maker’s knowledge(examples of different granularity levelsare: plant, department, line,workstation…).

The presented paper shows an industrialexample of this KPI calculation approachtaking as reference a manufacturing andassembly plant department. During thepresentation at the Summerschool, alsothe development in one of the use casesof the KPI-calculation eScop MES functionhas been presented: the SCM case, forwhich the first outcomes of this ongoingdevelopment have been presented, as anadditional dissemination element foreScop outcomes.

Science in the streets in Pilsen, Czech RepublicScience on the Streets is held each yearat the beginning of the September (8 - 12

.9.2015) in Pilsen.This event isorganized by thePilsen city withcooperation of thePilsen region andit is mainlyfocused on thepromotion andpopularization of

t e c h n i c a ls c i e n c e

among the general public.The event is held on the main Pilsen

square. The University of West Bohemiais a traditional exhibitor withseveral faculties and manydepartments. The exhibitionpresented advanced robots,smart electronics, electricvehicles and other interestingexhibits from different fields likechemistry, physics, mathematics,etc. Current results of the eScopproject were presented at thebooth of the Department ofCybernetics, Faculty of AppliedSciences, University of WestBohemia (UWB). The UWB team islooking forward to the next year when the

final results of the eScop project will bepresented.

Figure 9. Interested audience from all age groups

Figure 7. Elisa Negri from POLIMI presenting

Figure 8. Explaining eScop

Knowledge-Driven SystemsFrom Enterprise Solutions to Embedded Devices

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The International Conference “Advancesin Production Management Systems”2015 has been held in Tokyo, Japan from5th to 9th September 2015. Theconference is organized by the WorkingGroup 5.7 in the IFIP community(International Federation of InformationProcessing). The title of the conferencewas: “Innovative production managementtowards sustainable growth: Service,Manufacturing, and Resilient value-chain”, with a special session entitled“Ontology-aided industrial engineering”.This session was chaired by Prof.Stanisław Strzelczak of the WarsawUniversity of Technology, who is an activemember of the eScop consortium. Thesession has been thought as a goodopportunity to present eScop outcomes toa large and high-level internationalaudience at the cutting-edge research inthe production and engineeringmanagement fields.The members of the eScop consortiumhave taken the opportunity to send theircontributions to present the differenteScop outcomes: in particular, POLIMI,WUT and TUT have sent some papers andmade presentations on the topic ofontologies in the industrial engineering.

Regarding POLIMI, the contribution dealt

eScop is made possible by funding from the ARTEMIS Joint Undertaking.

Coordinated byTampere University of Technology

Project Leader: Prof. Jose L. Martinez Lastra, jose.lastra@tut.fiProject Manager: Johanna Rytkönen, johanna.k.rytkonen@tut.fi

Technical Coordinator: Dr. Andrei Lobov, andrei.lobov@tut.fi

www.escop-project.eu

APMS 2015, Tokyo

October 2015ICT 2015 Event —Networking sessionIndustrial Internet as a Facilitator forKnowledge-Driven Manufacturing, Octo-ber 20-22, Lisbon, PortugalThe eScop Consortium is hosting a net-working session, utilizing the techniquecalled Six Thinking Hats.https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/events/cf/ict2015/item-display.cfm?id=15823

November 201512th European Workshop on AdvancedControl and Diagnosis, November 19-20,Pilsen, Czech RepublicThe UWB organizes the 12th EuropeanWorkshop on Advanced Control and Di-agnosis (ACD2015, Pilsen, CZ). The dis-cussion about results of eScop projectand utilization of knowledge during con-trol will be opened as a part of the postersession.http://acd2015.zcu.cz/

with the illustration of a productionsystems ontology that models thediscrete manufacturing, processproduction and the logistics domains.This ontology is used to allow semanticinteroperability within a controlarchitecture based on semantically-enriched Web Services with the aim tofacilitate the responsiveness and agilityof the manufacturing companies, helpingthem to be more competitive thanks tothe higher flexibility and re-configurabilityof their production systems. The title ofthe contribution was ”Ontology forService-Based Control of ProductionSystems” and presented the MSO(Manufacturing Systems Ontology) as anevolution of the P-PSO (Politecnico diMilano – Production Systems Ontology),by underlining the differences betweenthem and the structure of the former:divided into Physical, Technological,Control and Visualization Aspects. It alsoshowed the role of the presentedontology in the eScop architecture, andthe benefits in terms of productionsystem flexibility and even agility, byallowing a more rapid reconfigurationand an easier integration of productionsystem elements at shop-floor controllevel, thanks to the inclusion of semanticcontent into the control level of the

devices and applications through the useof the MSO ontology, that allowsinteroperability among devices fromdifferent vendors.