Researchers from the Alcoy campus of the UPV participate in this European project, funded by the Horizon 2020 program.
The Universitat Politècnica de València hosted last week, from Monday 21 to Friday 25 January, 60 researchers from 30 entities of the H2020 project “Zero Defects Manufacturing Platform” (ZDMP) celebrating the project kick-off meeting.
Launched on January 1, 2019, and with a duration of 4 years, ZDMP has as its main objective to develop an open source platform, aimed at Small and Medium Enterprises for the achievement of Zero Defects in the manufacturing of products in Industry 4.0.
The platform will make available to companies applications (Apps) for this purpose, which will be developed by software implementers using development kits and advanced artificial intelligence components.
ZDMP combines state-of-the-art technological approaches based on commercial quality standards, open source software and results from previous H2020 projects with an innovative integration concept based on successful technologies. The ultimate goal is to establish a sustainable commercial and technological approach that, at the end of the project, will enable the creation of a spin-of company “ZDMP Limited” that represents the exploitation potential of the majority of the partners and that, through a crowdsourcing approach, will commercialize the results of ZDMP.
The European consortium of the ZDMP project is made up of 30 entities from countries such as Spain, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Finland, the Czech Republic and Romania. Among them are technological SMEs specialized in software development (ICE, ASCORA, SOFTECO), SMEs whose main activity is the development of manufacturing technology related to zero defects (PROFACTOR, CETECK, VSYS), technology corporations (Software AG, Scale Focus), 11 use cases with companies in the automotive, machine tool, construction and electronics sectors (FORD, MANTINREA, MASS, HSD, FIDIA, FORMPLAST, CONSUGAL, PTMILLS, FLEXFELINA, CEI, CONTINENTAL, ALFATEST, SANDVIK, GRAMAFAN ), universities and research centers (UPV, UNINOVA, TUT, ITI, IKERLAN) and other specialists (DIN, ROOTER, UOS-ITI). ZDMP integrates among its partners research project coordinators who will provide their developed technologies such as “Cloud Collaborative Manufacturing Networks” (C2NET), “Cloud-based Rapid Elastic MAnufacturing” (CREMA) and “Virtual factory Operating System” (vf-OS ).
From the Alcoy Campus of the UPV, the Production Management and Engineering Research Center (CIGIP), directed by Professor Raúl Poler, is the one that participates in the ZMDP project. Raúl Poler was the scientific coordinator of the C2NET project that ended last year and is the technical coordinator of the vf-OS project that will end in September 2019. CIGIP will be responsible for the development of machine learning algorithms for the optimization of manufacturing for quality assurance.
The ZDMP project is funded with 16.2 million euros by the Horizon 2020 program, specifically in the area of Factories of the Future: Digitalization and transformation of European industry and services (H2020 DT-ICT-07-2018-2019) with financing agreement number 825631.
