SCoPE - Smart Components within Smart Production Processes and Environments Proposal within the frame of the BRAGECRIM initiative Approval period 8/2016-7/2018

• Applicant: Professor Dr.-Ing. Reiner Anderl
• Subject Area: Production Systems, Operations Management, Quality Management and Factory Planning ; Engineering Design, Machine Elements, Product Development
• Term: from 2014 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 262397873

Main objective of the SCoPE project is to turn individual physical components into information carriers, to promote them as active agents in cyber-physical production environments. Information carrying components contain data about their physical properties, purpose and manufacturing history and are able to process this data in smart production processes. These smart components can control the manufacturing procedures applied to them and can navigate through a smart production environment. Smart components are aggregated to smart assemblies and smart products. For the application of smart components in smart production processes and environments two promising use cases are targeted: the traceability of individual components in smart production scenarios and the processing of collected component data for optimal pairings of smart components in complex assemblies. The introduction of smart components as information carriers in cyber-physical production systems may lead to a paradigm shift in engineering. The application of modern internet technologies for data exchange and communication between smart components changes the way how products are manufactured and the interaction of humans with these smart products. Overall increases in productivity, improved utilization of resources and means of production, and improvement of interoperability in a flexible production are expected from the deployment of a network of smart components.Objectives of the 1st phase of the SCoPE project were the development of an integrated component data model to specify the required data structures for the application of smart components in smart production environments and the definition of smart production processes for smart components. The 1st phase focusses on methods and procedures for individual components as single parts and their manufacturing processes. In the 2nd phase the extension from smart components to smart assemblies and the transition from smart manufacturing to smart assembly processes are targeted. To gather a comprehensive scientific understanding, two different perspectives have to be examined. The Department of Computer Integrated Design (DiK) of Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany will contribute the data-centric perspective with competences for capturing and structuring the multiplicity of available component data in the integrated component data model. The process-centric perspective will be provided by the expertise of the Laboratory for Computer Integrated Design and Manufacturing (SCPM) of Methodist University of Piracicaba, Brazil for examining interactions of smart components with smart production environments and humans, and for developing smart production processes. Hence, the SCoPE project represents an excellent opportunity within the BRAGECRIM initiative to combine the competencies of SCPM and DiK, and to continue the successful, long-term collaboration to propagate the vision of Industrie 4.0 in Brazil and Germany.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• International Connection: Brazil
• Cooperation Partner: Professor Dr.-Ing. Klaus Schützer