by Paul Krishnan | Mar 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
Transitioning towards a more responsive and modular factory is challenging. First of all, It requires very reconfigurable machinery on the shop floor resorting to plug-and-produce technology. Secondly, plants need to implement very efficient and reactive quality...
by Paul Krishnan | Feb 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
1. What is Plug-and-Produce in Manufacturing? In manufacturing, Plug-and-Produce is defined as “the capability of a production system to automatically identify a new or modified component and to integrate it correctly into the running production process without...
by Paul Krishnan | Feb 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
1. What is a Common Information Model In manufacturing, a Common Information Model (CIM) is a model based on industrial standards enabling data understanding between different production lines. 1. The first level of understanding is horizontal: between devices and...
by Paul Krishnan | Jan 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
Article from Kunal Suri, Researcher at CEA 1. What are Digital Twins? Digital twins are currently making the headlines in various industrial domains. Infrastructure, natural resources, healthcare, energy, aerospace and defence, just to...
by Paul Krishnan | Jan 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
With a consortium of 30 complementary partners, a 4-year duration, and an ambitious goal of making the production lines of European factories more flexible, the DIMOFAC project might be difficult to grasp in just one sentence. But what about one picture? Zoom on the...
by Paul Krishnan | Apr 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
The project, supported by the European Commission and launched in October 2019, will be taking advantage of emerging manufacturing technologies to create, implement and disseminate modular production methods that will help European factories to reconfigure their...
