Responsive Production in Manufacturing: A Modular Architecture

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231 254 140 ; S Forbes, J., Naujok, N., Geissbauer, R., Vedso, J., Schrauf, S.: Industry 4.0: building the digital enterprise. PWC (2016) ; [EN] This paper proposes an architecture aiming at promoting the convergence of the physical and digital worlds, through CPS and IoT technologies, to accommodate more customized and higher quality products following Industry 4.0 concepts. The architecture combines concepts such as cyber-physical systems, decentralization, modularity and scalability aiming at responsive production. Combining these aspects with virtualization, contextualization, modeling and simulation capabilities it will enable self-adaptation, situational awareness and decentralized decision-making to answer dynamic market demands and support the design and reconfiguration of the manufacturing enterprise. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union H2020 project C2 NET (FoF-01-2014) nr 636909. Marques, M.; Agostinho, C.; Zacharewicz, G.; Poler, R.; Jardim-Goncalves, R. (2018). Responsive Production in Manufacturing: A Modular Architecture. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control. 140:231-254. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78437-3_10 European Commission: For a European Industrial Renaissance, Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions (2014) Hartmann, B., King, W.P., Narayanan, S.: Digital manufacturing: the revolution will be virtualized. McKinsey & Company (2015) European Forum for Manufacture: Driving Innovation and Growth in European Manufacturing (2015) European Factories of the Future Research Association (EFFRA): Factories of the Future: Multi-annual Roadmap for the Contractual PPP under the Horizon 2020 (2013) European Commission: Horizon 2020—Work Programme 2016–2017: 17. Cross-cutting Activities (2016) Schlaepfer, R.C., Koch, M., Merkofer, P.: Industry 4.0 challenges and solutions for the digital transformation and use of exponential ...