General Overview
of the metaFacturing Project
Data and Metadata for Advanced Digitalization
of
Manufacturing Industrial Lines.
Data and Metadata for Advanced Digitalization
of
Manufacturing Industrial Lines.
MetaFacturing focuses on a digitized toolchain for metal part production which will lead to a
more
resilient production process with respect to the raw materials used (e.g., recycled materials),
reduces operator effort and cost, and reduces scrap due to out-of-specification parts. The
vision is
to create a widely applicable Digital Twin based process setup and control framework, fulfilling
the
requirements of industrial scale parts manufacturers (with a specific focus on metal parts)
whose
central hurdle is the effective use of available part and process data to improve the
time-to-market
and product quality.
This framework will strongly leverage on a range of state-of-the-art
technologies in the field of model-based data fusion, efficient process simulation, and data
standardisation, and continuous Life Cycle Assessment in order to efficiently develop solutions
which are tailored for deployment in industry.
MetaFacturing project brings together 6 market
leaders (FRONIUS, NEMAK, FILL, VITRONIC, BENTELER and LTH) which will closely cooperate in order
to
reach a new level of leadership in sustainable manufacturing while maintaining their respective
market dominance.
The envisaged approach will exploit all available data in the process, starting from
material data, in-process measurements, end-of-line quality control and sampling based
product validation. The Digital Twin based approach will enable the holistic consideration
of this data in order to provide automatic feedback for the process control, as well as
providing novel (meta-)data on the materials used which will be valuable to train the
engineers working with these materials.