Engineering innovation factory

Project time: 2013 – 2017

Budget: 11 520 000 SEK

Funding: SIP Produktion2030

Purpose and goal

The goal of the project w as to support innovation by providing an environment for collaboration and learning through modeling, simulation and visualization of a production system.
A framew ork for innovation based on a digital factory w as developed. The framew ork consists of an infrastructure for building digital factories, a demonstrator of an implemented digital factory, plus underlying principles for representing and presenting production information. A technical infrastructure exists which can be detailed according to company needs:
http://ifactory.iip.kth.se/eif/

Results and expected effects

Contribution to an IT-system independent methodology:
1) Based on theories of computer science and visual studies the foundation for a new theory concerning representation and presentation of production information from a user perspective.

2) Generic digital factory system architecture – for implementing digital factories.

3) Digital factory of a production system that is concrete and sufficiently complex, where various issues can be exemplified and connected from various know ledge background. This can be used in w orkshops concerning the development of production systems.

Approach and implementation

Relevant issues w ere identified in cooperation w ith the industrial companies, and a digital factory for a concept vehicle w as implemented to reflect the issues and principles.
For coordination, w e have used theories of Boundary object which in our case consists of: Graphical models embodying the concepts that are common to a production system, Information models that describe the concepts embodied in the system’s data model, Demonstrator of a factory that is concrete and moderately complex, where various issues can be exemplified and interconnected.

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