The main MOTIVATION for the openMOS project is greater agility for the European manufacturing industry. While automated systems are looking to achieve the requirements of high productivity and quality, their sensitivity to change is increasingly becoming a bottleneck to a substantial reduction in batch sizes and more frequent production changes. The VISION of the project is to allow the full economic sustainability of production systems, based on modular and intelligent plug-and-produce equipment.
- To achieve this, the project focuses on three main elements of innovation:
- incorporate plug-and-produce functionality into automation devices, robots and machines
- Enable vertical and horizontal connectivity between plug-and-produce automation components with superior control and business functions
- creation of an extensible and adaptable Manufacturing Operation System (MOS), which allows the easy introduction of new products, work orders and modifications to production equipment, and allows an easy implementation of optimization strategies and management of production change.
Targeted INNOVATION is an openly accessible plug-and-produce system platform, which allows all participants in the automation system value chain to come together to develop together and leverage solutions. Therefore, the project proposes the integration of well-established plug-and-produce system concepts from many years of research in this area, into industry-relevant technology platforms that have emerged in recent years. Since the majority of component/device/machine manufacturers and system integrators are SMEs, plug-and-produce can only be achieved by placing specific requirements for SMEs on the front line: close solutions and for SMEs. The R&D approach is guided by proposed industrial scenarios and implementations in pilot cases, which are conducted to systematically verify and validate the readiness of target results in three key industrial sectors: consumer goods, automotive and electronics.
