National Start date: 01/07/2019
International Start date: 01/09/2017

National End date: 30/09/2020
International End date: 30/09/2020

Project Description

Main Objective – Spear project intends to design and develop of a software solution that supports the management and scheduling of production lines and processes taking into account the existing criteria and requirements (namely the production objectives) minimizing the energy costs. The solution will allow the minimization of electricity costs, without jeopardizing production objectives. It will also provide good scheduling solutions for production lines in adverse situations (internal or external the industrial installation failures), minimizing their negative impacts.

Goals

SPEAR created an extendable platform for energy and efficiency optimizations of production systems with the following features:

-Usable as a local or cloud based application

-Adapts the energy usage of the production system to the current energy supply

-Upgrades classic production system to cyber physical production systems to allow measurement of signals

-Integrates physical models to calculate the energy demand instead of using cost-intensive sensors to measure it

-Uses FMI standard (Functional Mockup Interface) as basis for energy modelling and simulation

-Provides a simulation of the production system to predict current and future energy usage and costs of components over time

-Simulates the energy usage on a distributed infrastructure consisting of low-cost hardware and/or desktop computers with different operating systems

-Simulation of energy behavior runs in parallel with existing mechanical simulation tools

-Permanently updates the simulation system with the cyber physical measurements

-The software connecting the simulation and the real production system’s signals is provided as Open Source

-Distribution of energy simulation, coupling with mechanical simulation and with real production systems is based on ROS™ (Robot Operating System)

-Provides an extendable library of optimization methods

-Optimization methods can be extended independently of the optimization platform

Partners

Funding

Total international: 8 027 000,00 €

Total national: 485 883,60 €