Presentation of Overview of FLEXINET Research Project (EU FP7 Factories of the Future) at the Smarter Manufacturing Sustainable Futures Workshop for collaboration between EU research projects investigating aspects of IT support to Manufacturing.

1. Intelligent Systems Configuration Services for
Flexible Dynamic Global Production Networks
The FLEXINET project no. 608627 is funded under the Seventh
Framework Programme FP7-2013-NMP-ICT-FOF (RTD)
Duration: 1st July 2013 – 30th June 2016
For
further
informa.on
contact
the
project
coordinator,
Prof
Bob
Young.
Email:
R.I.Young@lboro.ac.uk
FLEXINET project 608627

2. FLEXINET project 608627

3. ! To understand how best to configure and re-configure
a global production network, in the
context of ever changing product-service
requirements.
! To provide services that support the design
and provision of flexible interoperable
networks of production systems that can
rapidly and accurately be re-configured.
FLEXINET project 608627
FLEXINET Aims

4. The FLEXINET Concept
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5. FLEXINET – Configuring a global (product-service) production
network – ‘early’ business decision support

6. FLEXINET emphasis on ‘early’ business decision support
FLEXINET: especially targeted at an
improved and rapid understanding
of new business development
opportunities
There
are
many
poten-al
global
produc-on
network
solu-ons
Produc-on
Network
knowledge
supports
early
product/
service
viability
decisions
Network
knowledge
supports
network
configura-on

7. The FLEXINET approach – FLEXINET Software Services
FLEXINET
Services
Strategic
Business
Model
Evaluator
Produc;on
Network
Configurator
Product-­‐Service
Co-­‐evolu;on
Management
analyse proposed changes in the
context of the existing network
inter-relationships in a simulation
based “what-if” analysis of cost
and risk
support network configuration
based on Social, Technological,
Economic, Environmental and
Political factors
ensure that new product-service-production
network elements
remain compliant in terms of
combined PLM/SLM requirements

8. A world of Production Systems, Service Systems, external factors,
risks, markets and business opportunities
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Legal
factors
Risk
factors
Social
factors
Poli-cal
factors
Economic
factors
Technological
factors

9. Identify potential Product-Service Production System
Configurations
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10. Evaluate potential Product-Service Systems Configurations
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ERAS:
Business
cost
and
risk
evalua;on
PNES:
Tac;cal
business
model
configura;on
PSCoMS:
Product-­‐Service
Co-­‐evolu;on
We provide software services to support the evaluation of these
configurations at the Strategic, Tactical and Product-Service Co-
Evolution levels

11. Underlying the Services are Formal Ontologies
Capture
Knowledge
about
your
“world”
of
interest
•
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knowledge
harmonisa-on
•
clearly
defined
vocabularies
•
computer
interpretable
-­‐>
consistency
checks
•
use
KB
to
answer
ques-ons
Enterprise
ontologies
must
be
built
from
a
common
base
for
ease
of
construc;on,
effec;ve
interoperability
and
flexible
re-­‐use

12. Ontology Layers
Level
0
Level
1
Level
2
Natural
Systems
Level
3
Level
5
CORE
(ULO)
Systems
Designed
Systems
Manufacturing
Business
Systems
Healthcare
Systems
Banking
Systems
Product-­‐Service
Marke-ng
Lifecycle
Systems
Finance
Produce
Dispose/
End
of
life
Enterprise
Specific
(Highfleet)
FLEXINET
is
concerned
with
modeling
the
elements
of
global
produc;on
network
systems
FLEXINET
will
use
these
models
to
support
‘what-­‐if”
queries
on
the
configura;on
of
these
elements
into
global
produc;on
systems
Design
Operate

13. Lower level layers are specialisations of higher level layers
class Level 1 - System
Level
2
Designed
Systems
Level
3
Manufacturing
Business
Systems
class Level 3 - Manufacturing Business Systems
Participator
Role
Manufacturer
Participator
Product
Role
Manufactured
Product
Basic
Organisation
System
Manufacturing
Organisation
Level
1
Systems
Basic
System
Level
5
Enterprise
Specific
-­‐
Custom
Drinks
Level 0 - Core::
TimeSpan
Basic
Information
Basic
Material
Basic
Energy
Role
Input
Role
Output
Role
Resource
Role
Constraint
Basic Role
class Level 4 - Product Service Production Systems
Role
Manufacturer
Participator
Producer
Role
Participator
Production
Engineer
Basic
System
Production
Method
class Level 5- Enterprise Specific
Role
Manufactured Product
Participator
Product
CD_Container
Role
Task
Feasibility Study
CD_Feasibility
Study
Role
Component
Function
CD_Content
Role
Component
Function
CD_Ingredients
Basic
Information
Location
CD_Country
class Level 2 - Designed Systems
Basic
Information
Visualisation
Report
Participator
Role
Customer
Participator
Role
Supplier
Participator
Role
Product
Function
Role
Product
Request
Basic
Information
Location
Basic
External Factors
Information
Legislation/Legal
Factors
Function
Role
Component
Basic
System
Organisation
Basic
Material
Equipment
Role
Participator
Basic
System
Level 2 -
Natural
Systems::
Person
Role
Task
Feasibility
Study
Role
Task
Role
Function
Basic
Information
External
Factors
Basic
Information
Metric
Distance
Basic
Information
Metric

14. A UML Class model of Level 1

15. Level 1 formal definition – based on Common Logic

16. FLEXINET Applications mapped to Service Packages
Strategic
business
model
evaluator
Strategic
risk
assessment
applica-on
Ini-al
risk
analysis
and
documenta-on
Early
warning
no-fica-on
applica-on
P/S
ideas
management
product-­‐
service
compliance
STRATEGIC
(ERAS)
Product
Service
Co-­‐Evolu;on
(PSCoMS)
TACTICAL
(PNES)
Collabora-ve
design
review
Business
model
impact
analysis
Opera;onal
risk
assessment
applica;on
Reference
model
fragments
for
GPN
Technology
Effect
Analyser
Business
Model
Accelerator
Opera;onal
Business
Model
Configurator
Business
model
Configurator
Knowledge
Maintenance
User
Experience
Evalua-on

17. INDESIT Scenario – New Product-Service
Idea
Genera-on
Process
Design
Process

18. KSB Scenario – Product Innovation through new technology
Iden-fy
poten-al
new
applica-on
areas
for
the
technology
Develop
details
of
GPN
design
scenarios
Analyse
GPN
scenarios
to
support
management
proposi-ons

19. CustomDrinks Scenario – Made-to-order drinks 19
of
XX

20. FLEXINET: expected impact for end users
! Improved response to customer requirements.
! Radical improvements in the evaluation of the
critical parameters involved in network
configuration.
! Reduced cost of introducing new product/service
variants.
! Improved scheduling and decision making within
the production network.
! Improved robustness of the supply network in its
ability to work to forecast.
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