27 November 2018
At the SmartFactoryKL facility, various cloud solutions are connected to the assembly modules by the corresponding edge devices. For example, for predictive maintenance the quality assurance module uses a different cloud than the assembly module.
The SmartFactoryKL cloud, as the higher level cloud platform, merges the data from the separate manufacturer clouds and checks it before making the targeted distribution. In this way, the SmartFactoryKL cloud draws conclusions from faulty or deviant data and communicates the appropriate maintenance instruction via smart phone or a smart device like data glasses to the worker.
The user-specific services of the future will still be provided only by experts, i.e., the suppliers of individual cloud solutions. This means that a company is required to access multiple clouds containing different data. For practical purposes, this implies a manufacturing cloud platform that can be networked with the various clouds in use.
The Service Provider Cloud is directly linked via 5G technology to the flexible transport system and carries out the actual quality control using the optical recognition data for the workpiece. “We see an emerging trend that clouds, like machines, can be viewed as services that can be modularly combined,” said Prof. Dr. Detlef Zühlke, CEO of SmartFactoryKL.
“Consider the pay-per-use payment system, where the user pays only for the services that have been called up from multiple providers. Another advantage in exploiting cloud platforms is the relative ease of operation. For example, even automation developers who are not IT experts use this concept,” Zühlke stressed.
The SmartFactoryKL technology initiative was established as a non-profit organization in 2005, bringing together for the first time industrial and research partners in an Industrie 4.0 network to implement joint projects for the factories of the future. SmartFactoryKL is a unique, manufacturer-independent demonstrator and research vehicle located at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Kaiserslautern. Promising innovative Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are evaluated and further developed in a realistic industrial production environment on site. Products and solutions as well as universal standards in the areas of Industrie 4.0 have already been developed within the technology initiative.
https://smartfactory.de/
Networked clouds in a production setting
How can data be evaluated and interpreted in its entirety in a cloud when the production plant uses different cloud solutions? A partner consortium behind SmartFactoryKL provides the answer: a higher level cloud platform that aggregates all cloud solutions.
 Photo: SmartFactoryKL/A. SellThe data for the Industrie 4.0 production plant is interpreted in its entirety by a higher level cloud. |
The SmartFactoryKL cloud, as the higher level cloud platform, merges the data from the separate manufacturer clouds and checks it before making the targeted distribution. In this way, the SmartFactoryKL cloud draws conclusions from faulty or deviant data and communicates the appropriate maintenance instruction via smart phone or a smart device like data glasses to the worker.
The user-specific services of the future will still be provided only by experts, i.e., the suppliers of individual cloud solutions. This means that a company is required to access multiple clouds containing different data. For practical purposes, this implies a manufacturing cloud platform that can be networked with the various clouds in use.
The Service Provider Cloud is directly linked via 5G technology to the flexible transport system and carries out the actual quality control using the optical recognition data for the workpiece. “We see an emerging trend that clouds, like machines, can be viewed as services that can be modularly combined,” said Prof. Dr. Detlef Zühlke, CEO of SmartFactoryKL.
“Consider the pay-per-use payment system, where the user pays only for the services that have been called up from multiple providers. Another advantage in exploiting cloud platforms is the relative ease of operation. For example, even automation developers who are not IT experts use this concept,” Zühlke stressed.
The SmartFactoryKL technology initiative was established as a non-profit organization in 2005, bringing together for the first time industrial and research partners in an Industrie 4.0 network to implement joint projects for the factories of the future. SmartFactoryKL is a unique, manufacturer-independent demonstrator and research vehicle located at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Kaiserslautern. Promising innovative Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are evaluated and further developed in a realistic industrial production environment on site. Products and solutions as well as universal standards in the areas of Industrie 4.0 have already been developed within the technology initiative.
https://smartfactory.de/
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