Overview

The term “digitalisation” represents the fundamental change currently taking place in the production and manufacturing industries. As real-world and virtual reality continue to merge, modern information and communication technologies have become combined with traditional industrial processes, thereby redefining numerous areas of production. The Cyber-Physical (CP) Factory reflects this new paradigm by offering a modular Smart Factory system.

This 3-day workshop gives an overview of the CP-System integrated with Industry 4.0 features, i.e. decentralised intelligence, high connectivity, flexibility and modularity. In this module, participants can expect the following:

• Demonstration of the characteristic of CP-System

• Modular design concept of the CP-System

• Ethernet-based network backbone enabling Internet-of-Things implementation

• Machine-to-machine communication with industrial ethernet network and OPC-UA

• Optimise production control with Manufacturing Execution System (MES) for order management, production planning, OEE, and resource management

• Configuring flexible processes with the use of MES and radio frequency identification technologies to improve the process information of a product in the manufacturing line

• Carrying out systems modelling, controller design and analysis

• Process simulation and optimisation with digital simulation software

• Basic illustration of cloud application

• Worker assistance with augmented reality