About eSONIA project
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Project: |
eSONIA - Embedded Service Oriented Monitoring, Diagnostics and Control: towards the Asset-aware and Self-Recovery Factory |
| Funding: | ARTEMIS, ARTEMIS-2009-1 |
| Contact: | Prof. Jose Martinez Lastra |
| Time schedule: | 1.3.2010 - 28.2.2013 |
In Europe, manufacturing represents approximately 22% of GDP, and it is estimated that 75% of GDP and 70% of employment is related to manufacturing. The direct cost of maintenance is equivalent to 4% to 8% of the total sales turnover. Depending on the industry, maintenance costs can represent between 15% (food-related industries) and 60% (iron and steel, pulp and paper and other heavy industries) of production cost. However today’s factories plant states are isolated and cannot be fully understood since there is no infrastructure for holistic and continuous measurement and visualization of relevant information. This lack of insight prevents efficient decision taking in real-time (e.g. recovery from undesired situations).
The objective of the eSONIA project is to realize the asset-aware and self-recovery plant through:
- pervasive heterogeneous (wirelines and wireless) IPv6-based embedded devices
- bringing on-board specialized services
- glued through a middleware capitalizing the service oriented approach
All that will be used for the first time in industry to support continuous monitoring/diagnostics/prognostics/control of assets, regardless of their physical location.
The delivered information will be elaborated and visualized in 3D-geolocation mode to infer:
- efficient automatic maintenance schedules
- improved operator dispatch and repair performance
- efficient runtime planning of product/supplies routes (for continuous track & trace systems), automatic triggering of re-sequencing and line-balancing processes in response to unscheduled maintenance actions or equipments’ failure.
The expected outcomes of eSONIA are: greater predictability of plant behaviour and visibility, reduced safety risks, enhanced security and cost efficiency.
Partners:
TUT, Department of Production Engineering
Hermia Ltd
Acciona S.A.
Brno University of Technology
Comau SPA
Centro Ricerche Fiat
Fluidhouse Oy
Tecnalia (ESI & Fatronik)
Ibermatica
Integrasys
Politecnico di Milano
Prodatec Oy
STMicroelectronics
UNIS a.s.