Abstract
In the past two decades, a large amount of attention has been devoted to the introduction of smart manufacturing concepts and technologies into industrial practice. In Europe, these efforts have been supported by European research and innovation programs, bringing together research and application parties. In this paper, we provide an overview of a series of four content-wise connected projects on the European scale that are aimed at advancing smart manufacturing, with a focus on connecting processes on smart factory shop floors to manufacturing equipment on the one hand and enterprise-level business processes on the other hand. These projects cover several tens of application cases across Europe. We present our experiences in the form of a single, informal longitudinal case study, highlighting both the major advances and the current limitations of developments. To organize these experiences, we place them in the context of the well-known RAMI4.0 reference framework for Industry 4.0 (covering the ISA-95 standard). Then, we analyze the experiences, both the positive ones and those including problems, and draw our learnings from these. In doing so, we do not present novel technological developments in this paper—these are presented in the papers we refer to—but concentrate on the main issues we have observed to guide future developments in research efforts and industrial innovation in the smart industry domain.
Highlights
This paper presents the main experiences and learnings from two decades of research and innovation efforts in smart manufacturing, centered on four international research projects in Europe: CrossWork, HORSE, OEDIPUS and SHOP4CF
As we prefer to present our learnings organized by topic rather than by time, we have chosen the second approach: we treat the work in this paper as a single, qualitative case study, covering two decades of work
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Summary
This paper presents the main experiences and learnings from two decades of research and innovation efforts in smart manufacturing, centered on four international research projects in Europe: CrossWork, HORSE, OEDIPUS and SHOP4CF. We aim at highlighting the aspects of the projects that make them successful, and discuss issues and gaps that need to be addressed in future developments to make true smart manufacturing and smart factories a complete success. We discuss the RAMI4.0 framework for smart industry, which we use to organize our experiences and learnings across the projects that this paper covers in a well-structured way. RAMI4.0 framework, organized in main topicsindustry that we that these learnings are to new research initiatives in smart consider essential innovation to address in smart manufacturing developments. Conclude the paper with a summary of main observations and a brief look forward
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