MIDIH Industrial Commitee: Open Platform, DIH Innovation Management and Cross Border Industrial Experiments

1. MIDIH Industrial Committee
25th September 2019, Cernobbio-Italy

2. AGENDA

3. MIDIH
Industrial Committee
Questionnaire
Interviewees:
Chris Decubber – EFFRA
Pierluigi Petrali – Whirlpool
Ifigenia Metaxa – Atlantis Engineering
Begoña Laibarra – SQS S.A.
María José Nuñez Ariño – AIDIMME

4. TOPICS
Open Platform architecture, development, integration and testing
Cross-Border Industrial Experiments
Network of Competence Centers and pan-EU DIHs in CPS/IOT
DIH Innovation Management and Sustainability Model

5. PLATFORM
A collection of Standards, Specifications, Implementation of software modules or services to provide functions to realize,
partly or totally, a cyber-physical system.
• Functionalities: Visualization, Analytics, Simulation, product lifecycle management for improved performances (i.e.
product maintainability, evolution, adaptability, etc.)
• Data management: Data flow, data protection
• Performances: Fast time-to-market, response time, latency, Easy interfaces to connect through.
• Business features: No cost or very cheap for accessing.
PL1. What is for you an Open Platform and what are its main characteristics in the Industrial CPS/IOT domain?

6. PLATFORM
Too many on the market, coming from EU projects.
• FIWARE,
• FAR-EDGE
• eFactory platform (https://www.efactory-project.eu/) integrating services from 4 FoF project platforms (NIMBLE,
DIGICOR, vf-os and COMPOSITION).
• EOSC-hub DIH https://www.eosc-hub.eu/digital-innovation-hub
PL3. Which Open Platforms of your knowledge do you suggest MIDIH to take into account?
• Combine flexibility and openness with robustness and reliability.
• Usage of Protocols (interoperability) in production machinery/robots for data collection in collaborative environments
(different production plants/shopfloors).
PL2. What are the main challenges an Open Platform should address?

7. ECOSYSTEM
• Functionalities: One-stop-shop, honest broker
• Aim: accelerate innovation bringing technologies Industry 4.0 closer to the companies in a safe and reliable way
• Service offer: Technology testing, Access to market/financial advice, networking opportunities, MDFs (Manufacturing
Demonstration Facilities)
• Target market: SMEs, start-ups, mid-caps. As a matter of facts, usually LE have specific channels (either internals or
externals) to access technology, intelligence and market opportunities. In this context, the role of LE in DIH network
and roles should be carefully redesigned.
• DIH catalogue: A DIH must be recognised in the DIH Catalogue for dissemination of knowledge and good practices.
E1. What is for you a DIH in our Industry 4.0 domain and what are its main distinguishing character with
respect for instance to the DIH Catalogue?

8. ECOSYSTEM
• Clear partner search with strengths and peculiarities.
• Inter-Factories connectivity for data sharing.
E2. Which "Ecosystem Building" services should the platform support?

9. ECOSYSTEM
• Industrial IoT for own company´s analytics and in collaborative production.
E3. Which "Business and Access to Market" services should the platform support?
• Knowledge access: Access to research project public result
• Technology access: Digested technology catalogue. Strength and Weakness of each technology solution should be
popped up and used to facilitate selection.
• Methods/models access: Conformance Testing procedures must be required. From my point of view, mandatory.
E4. Which "Technology and test-before-invest" services should the platform support?

10. ECOSYSTEM
• Scalable one.
• Non size-limited. Some of the assessment models present on the market are not fitting large companies.
• Technological aspects
• Organizational aspects. Some of them address only the technological aspects and not the organizational issue.
• Digital skills in IT-OT
E5. Which "Maturity assessment and Skills Development" services should the platform support?
• Open data repository to facilitate experiments
• Data compliant testing integration.
• Interoperability procedures for data exchange.
• Data protection and security (data ownership)
E6. Which "Data Management and Data Sharing" services should the platform support?

11. ECOSYSTEM
• EOSC-Hub DIH
E7. Which DIH platforms of your knowledge do you suggest MIDIH to take into account?
• Data security in production environment.
• Language barrier
• Basic skill education
E8. What are the main challenges in actively engaging and involving SMEs?

12. ECOSYSTEM
• CANVAS.
• Not yet sure.
E9. Which business and innovation models of your knowledge do you suggest MIDIH to take into
account?

13. PILOTS
• More digitally advanced sectors: Automitive, Electronics, Aeropsace
• Less digitally advanced sectors: Food, Consumer Good, Building, Forest-Wood-Furniture
• Needs: What need the more of experimentation is the integration of the three domains (SF, SP, SSC) that will enable
the Enterprise 4.0 versus Industry 4.0
PS1. Which industrial sectors and domains need more cross-border experimentation in the Industry 4.0
domain?
• Business performance: KPI based on performance/cost
• People: Improve worker´s competences and skills, mainly at shopfloor, Increase valuable human-machine interaction.
PS2. Which technical-business-social KPIs do you recommend to carefully define and measure in the
experiments domains of Smart Factory, Smart Product, Smart Supply Chain?

14. PILOTS
• National industrial clusters, in particular those in Vanguard regions.
• Industrial communities AIDIMME is an industrial community in Spain in Wood-Furniture sector. Similar institutions are
for other industries.
• IT companies (i.e. leaded by ITI in Spain.)
PS3. Which external industrial communities do you suggest for MIDIH to contact in order to share Best
Practices and Lessons Learned?

15. THANK
YOU!