QU4LITY | Digital Reality in Zero Defect Manufacturing

Summary

QU4LITY will demonstrate, in a realistic, measurable, and replicable way an open, certifiable and highly standardised, SME-friendly and transformative shared data-driven ZDM product and service model for Factory 4.0 through 5 strategic ZDM plug & control lighthouse equipment pilots and 9 production lighthouse facility pilots.

QU4LITY will also demonstrate how European industry can build unique and highly tailored ZDM strategies and competitive advantages:

  • significantly increase operational efficiency, scrap reduction,
  • prescriptive quality management
  • energy efficiency
  • defect propagation avoidance 
  • improved smart product customer experience
  • new digital business models; e.g. outcome-based and product servitisation

Qu4lity will do this through an orchestrated open platform ecosystem, ZDM atomized components and digital enablers across all phases of product and process lifecycle. The main goal is to build an autonomous quality model to meet the Industry 4.0 ZDM challenges.

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The standardisation  made by QU4LITY were intended to assure proper development and support the growth of quality management and ZDM standards in particular, as well as other related clusters. This assignment is a component of work package 2's Autonomous Quality in ZDM: Vision and Specifications, which is tasked with examining the demands of stakeholders, the underlying platforms and technologies, as well as any necessary standards and interoperability requirements. The dissemination and standardisation contributions in WP9, which provide in-depth information on the current standardisation activities of the Standard Development and Standard Setting organisations, clusters, associations, and other relevant stakeholders, are completely aligned with the standardisation strategy and work in Task 2.4.  As the T2.4 leader, FHG made a significant contribution to the drafting of this Deliverable and was in charge of coordinating efforts pertaining to standards compliance, developing the T2.4 overall strategy, and coordinating and analysing the project's interoperability specification. Along with Task T9.2 experts, 

Task T2.4 coordinated this operation and exchanged the most recent findings from the standards research. Ultimately, Task 2.4 provided the following contributions to standardisation activities:
1. a set of ZDM specific requirements to verify standards compliance interoperability framework for industrial applications; as well as interoperability goals
2. standards compliance requirements on a ZDM Framework based on standards research regarding RAMI4.0 layers and classification of standards;
 

By the project's completion, QU4LITY pilots have complied with a total of 37 standards.

More information & hyperlinks
Web resources: https://qu4lity-project.eu/
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/825030
Start date: 01-01-2019
End date: 31-07-2022
Total budget - Public funding: 15 998 180,00 Euro - 15 998 180,00 Euro
Twitter: @EuQu4lity
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QU4LITY will demonstrate, in a realistic, measurable, and replicable way an open, certifiable and highly standardised, SME-friendly and transformative shared data-driven ZDM product and service model for Factory 4.0 through 5 strategic ZDM plug & control lighthouse equipment pilots and 9 production lighthouse facility pilots. QU4LITY will also demonstrate how European industry can build unique and highly tailored ZDM strategies and competitive advantages (significantly increase operational efficiency, scrap reduction, prescriptive quality management, energy efficiency, defect propagation avoidance and improved smart product customer experience, and foster new digital business models; e.g. outcome-based and product servitisation) through an orchestrated open platforms ecosystem, ZDM atomized components and digital enablers (Industry 4.0 digital connectivity & edge computing package, plug & control autonomous manufacturing equipment, real-time data spaces for process monitoring & adaptation, simulation data spaces for digital process twin continuity, AI-powered analytic data spaces for cognitive digital control twin composable services, augmented worker interventions, European quality data marketplace) across all phases of product and process lifecycle (engineering, planning, operation and production) building upon the QU4LITY autonomous quality model to meet the Industry 4.0 ZDM challenges (cost and time effective brownfield ZDM deployment, flexible ZDM strategy design & adaptation, agile operation of zero defect processes & products, zero break down sustainable manufacturing process operation and human centred manufacturing).

Status

CLOSED

Call topic

DT-ICT-07-2018-2019

Update Date

27-10-2022
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Comment:

The standardisation  made by QU4LITY were intended to assure proper development and support the growth of quality management and ZDM standards in particular, as well as other related clusters. This assignment is a component of work package 2's Autonomous Quality in ZDM: Vision and Specifications, which is tasked with examining the demands of stakeholders, the underlying platforms and technologies, as well as any necessary standards and interoperability requirements. The dissemination and standardisation contributions in WP9, which provide in-depth information on the current standardisation activities of the Standard Development and Standard Setting organisations, clusters, associations, and other relevant stakeholders, are completely aligned with the standardisation strategy and work in Task 2.4.  As the T2.4 leader, FHG made a significant contribution to the drafting of this Deliverable and was in charge of coordinating efforts pertaining to standards compliance, developing the T2.4 overall strategy, and coordinating and analysing the project's interoperability specification. Along with Task T9.2 experts, 

Task T2.4 coordinated this operation and exchanged the most recent findings from the standards research. Ultimately, Task 2.4 provided the following contributions to standardisation activities:
1. a set of ZDM specific requirements to verify standards compliance interoperability framework for industrial applications; as well as interoperability goals
2. standards compliance requirements on a ZDM Framework based on standards research regarding RAMI4.0 layers and classification of standards;
 

By the project's completion, QU4LITY pilots have complied with a total of 37 standards.

Comment:

QU4LITY project addresses a standardization strategy for zero-defect production. This project resolves missing or overlapping elements in various ZDM standardisation areas. The standards study makes use of the most recent findings from Task T9.2 regarding present-day activities and stakeholders in relation to the identified standardised ecosystem. In order to provide reliable solutions QU4LITY supports compliance with the five relevant cross-cutting standardised domains, QU4LITY conducts pilots on the most appropriate standard usage. All specifications aim at providing helpful recommendations for use for affected pilots:

1. Compliance Specification for Interoperability Standards
2. Compliance Specification for Safety and Security Standards
3. Compliance Specification for Artificial Intelligence Standards
4. Compliance Specification for Quality Standards
5. Compliance Specification for Reference Architecture Standards, Reference
Architecture Standards, Digital Models and Vocabularies

 

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Digital models and Vocabularies

Details: Quality,; guidance for onfiguration management - activity that applies technical and administrative direction over the life cycle of a product and service, its configuration identification and status, and related product and service configuration information.

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Control Service

Details: Quality, requirements for a quality management system

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Digital models and Vocabularies

Details: Qualit modelling and support of quality workflow scenarious

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Digital Twin and Planning Services

Details: Blockchain

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Digital models and Vocabularies

Details: Information model (QIF) and data formed into XML instance files support the entire scope of model based definition manufacturing quality workflow

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Corporate Network/ Production OT Access Network: Deterministic Ethernet (TSN), OPC-UA, IDS/NGSI-LD

Details: MQTT: an extremel lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport protocol

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Digital models and Vocabularies

Details: Vocabulary, Information technology (IT) in general

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Corporate Network/ Production OT Access Network: Deterministic Ethernet (TSN), OPC-UA, IDS/NGSI-LD

Details: AMQP

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Digital models and Vocabularies

Details: Information security management systems; Vocabulary

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Collaboration, Business and Operation Service (CRM, ERP/MES, SCM, DSS)

Details: ISMS: Establishing, implementing, maintaining and continually improving an information security management system within the context of the organization (Information security)

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Distributed Trustworthiness Layer

Details: Cybersecurity (basis standard, inkl. terms and concepts relating to cyber security and cyber risk management)

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Collaboration, Business and Operation Service (CRM, ERP/MES, SCM, DSS)

Details: ISMS: Establishing, implementing, maintaining and continually improving an information security management system within the context of the organization (Information security)

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Distributed Trustworthiness Layer

Details: Security RA

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Distributed Trustworthiness Layer

Details: General concepts and principles of IT security evaluation; general model of evaluation

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Cross-cutting

Details: RA/RM (basic standard) applied for QU4LITY-RA

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Distributed Trustworthiness Layer

Details: IT Security, requirements, evaluation criteria for IT security

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Cross-cutting

Details: Industrial IoT standards and roadmapping

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Edge/Fog

Details: Edge Computing

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Edge/Fog

Details: Edge Computing

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Cross-cutting

Details: IoT RA

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: IoT Hubs

Details: IoT, information exchange, peer-to-peer connectivity and seamless communication both between different IoT systems

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Cross-cutting

Details: IoT, Use cases

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Digital models and Vocabularies

Details: IoT, Semantic interoperability

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: IoT Hubs

Details: IoT, interoperability framework

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Digital models and Vocabularies

Details: IoT, Vocabulary

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Data-driven Modelling and Learning Service

Details: AI, Framework for AI systems using ML

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Digital models and Vocabularies

Details: Big data vocabulary

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Cross-cutting

Details: AI, Use cases

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Data-driven Modelling and Learning Service

Details: AI, foundational, concepts and terminology

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Cloud

Details: Cloud computing, Fundamentalsn for Cloud services and devices: data flow, data categories and data use;

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Cloud

Details: Cloud Computing, Concepts

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Digital models and Vocabularies

Details: Cloud Compuitng, Terminology

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Cloud

Details: Cloud computing general overview and vocabulary

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: IoT Automation Services

Details: Production system engineering; process quality and optimisation designer; distributed industrial-process measurement and control systems

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Factory Network/ Field and Proximity Network: Analog Inputs, Real-Time Ethernet, Digital IOs, Camera Link, P&P

Details: Feldbus/Device level (EtheCAT, PROFINET): Generic concept of fieldbuse

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Digital Twin and Planning Services

Details: General principles of the Digital Factory framework

Comment:

Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Corporate Network/ Production OT Access Network: Deterministic Ethernet (TSN), OPC-UA, IDS/NGSI-LD

Details: OPC UA: an industrial M2M communication protocol for Interoperability; Information modelling
 

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Digital Twin and Planning Services

Details: RAMI4.0 - Digital twin, process optimization run-time

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Distributed Trustworthiness Layer

Details: Cyber Security in Industrial Environments

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Network

Details: Network: Wireless local area networks

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Network

Details: Connectivity requirements: Specifications (models) for low-data-rate wireless connectivity with fixed, portable, and moving devices with no battery or very limited battery consumption requirements

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Network

Details: Communication: Protocols, procedures, and managed objects for the transport of timing over local area networks

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Digital models and Vocabularies

Details: Data Models: proposes an overarching integrated conceptual model that describes interactions between the physical world, the user, and digital information, the context for AR-assisted learning and other parameters of the environment

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Factory Network/ Field and Proximity Network: Analog Inputs, Real-Time Ethernet, Digital IOs, Camera Link, P&P

Details: MT Connect: used to access real-time data from shop floor manufacturing equipment such as machine tools

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Corporate Network/Plant IT Service Network: 5G, Wireless, Wired Etherne

Details: Interoperability & Common APIs: straightforward integration of a machine tool into higher level IT systems

Comment: Details: IoT Thing description, definition of protocol bindings

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: …

Details: Applied to address performance analysisi and porcess optimisazion (i.e. allows to capture data that is required to do performance analysis of production facilities)

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Digital models and Vocabularies

Details: Interoperable information model, vocabulary, and encoding mechanisms for representing statements about the usage of content and services.

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Assets & Smart Products

Details: LCM: Enabling digital physical asset lifecycle management spanning plants, platforms and facilities; functional and interoperability requirements for Critical Infrastructure Management on a cross-sector basis

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Digital Twin and Planning Services

Details: IIRA

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Corporate Network/ Production OT Access Network: Deterministic Ethernet (TSN), OPC-UA, IDS/NGSI-LD

Details: REST API: application of standards and specification for HTTP/REST APIs

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Factory Network/ Field and Proximity Network: Analog Inputs, Real-Time Ethernet, Digital IOs, Camera Link, P&P

Details: API, Interoperability: global camera interface standard using the Gigabit Ethernet communication protocol to allow fast image transfer using low cost standard cables over very long lengths.

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Digital models and Vocabularies

Details: Vocabulary, Interoperability, used to define the schema and enable a publisher to describe datasets and data services in a catalog using a standard model and vocabulary that facilitates the consumption and aggregation of metadata from multiple catalogs.

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Factory Network/ Field and Proximity Network: Analog Inputs, Real-Time Ethernet, Digital IOs, Camera Link, P&P

Details: Specification that standardizes the connection between cameras and frame grabbers and defines a complete interface (provisions for data transfer, camera timing, serial communications, and real time signaling to the camera)

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Cloud

Details: Use of open souce plattform for messaging and data streaming.

Comment: Associated to QU4LITY Reference Architecture: Control Service

Details: OS: Robot Operating System