In and around Productive 4.0

A big achievement in Productive4.0 was made in work package (WP)9 which focuses on product use cases along the entire supply chain in various domains of the European industry. It demonstrates how product life cycle management will benefit from the capabilities of Digital Industry and IIot and technological and conceptual approaches in fields like service-oriented […]

Aiming at a robust and secure communication environment, the activities in work package (WP)2 focused on setting up a distributed data analytics service to handle big data in real-time. The environment for the Digital Industry should be handled via control networks or monitoring networks. This is where TU/e, the Dutch Technical University of Eindhoven and […]

Inspired by the term Industry 4.0, Productive4.0’s goal was to create a user platform across value chains and industries to promote the digital networking of manufacturing companies, production machines and products. At that point, shedding light on the specific meaning of terms like Semantic Web, Semantic Web Stack and ontology should be helpful to better […]

With industry becoming digitalized and smart, established standards have to be updated following the new paradigms, and new ones will emerge. This goes along with the need for a smooth and reliable wireless communication between cyber physical system (CPS) devices where languages have to be defined and aspects like interoperability must be insured. Interacting with […]

Big achievements in Productive4.0 were made in work packages (WP) 4 and 5. They are substantial for the project’s main aim: to create holistic operating systems reducing customer order waiting times, production lead times and improving an overall quality. Avoiding asymmetric information and optimising processes, virtual company systems enable faster and far more flexible product […]

Envisioning a smart futuristic factory, everybody would spontaneously think of business premises with automatic production lines, self operating robots or autonomous vehicles bringing goods to predetermined places. With Productive4.0 this vision is moving towards reality. Even though some of these applications may have been realised already, the challenge is to set them up in a […]

Representing a systems development lifecycle, the classic V-model may have served well in the past, but when it comes to agility in modern digitalisation, it is reaching its limits. Looking for a more suitable basis of model-based systems engineering (MBSE), work package 8 co-leader Vahid Salehi proposes a new approach. The concept in question is […]

European funded projects are not meant to be closed shops. With the overarching goal of strengthening the industry in Europe, innovative approaches, successful results or unexpected challenges must be shared with other projects. Only through knowledge transfer findings can further develop their potentials on the next level and in a different context. This applies even […]