Role of each partner in the project
IZERTIS, S.A. (http://www.izertis.com) is a large company founded in 1987 whose headquarters are located in Asturias (Spain) that focuses its activity on facilitating digital transformation in organisations through technology, consulting services and outsourcing solutions. Its R&D department has wide experience and expertise in designing and implementing solutions based on Key Enabling Technologies such as extended reality & machine vision, IoT, advanced analytics, big data, process simulation, cybersecurity, additive manufacturing, collaborative platforms, and automation.
Within this project, IZERTIS will perform as project coordinator and leader of WP1. Also, IZERTIS will participate in WP3, by providing its expertise in IoT in the industrial manufacturing sector, in WP5, for which it will have the support of TECNALIA, that will participate in the project as a subcontracted entity, and in WP7.
MachineSight is a young but experienced SME, since it has been created in October 2018 by 4 founders with more than 100 years of cumulated expertise in mechatronics, and especially in the design and the realisation of tailored machines for the industry. Concretely, MachineSight is an integrator, assuming the analysis, design, realisation, setup and commissioning of tailored machines, with a focus on intelligent automation, robotics and vision.
MachineSight has focused its activities on smart robotics and defect detection by vision systems, with an industrial mindset. MachineSight has several references in AI for vision systems, using commercial vision libraries as Cognex ViDi and MvTech Halcon.
The MachineSight’s desire is to collaborate on the project to achieve an industrially applicable solution. Especially, MachineSight will work at two different levels:
- As a vision expert, to determine the optimum solution(s) to highlight the defects. Currently, vision systems are expensive and quite difficult to develop. Our aim is clearly to identify a solution, as mature as emergent, which can be placed as an IoT sensor in the industry to control the production, at affordable costs for SME.
- As an integrator, with a lab to site mindset. In this context, MachineSight will lead WP7, by designing and developing a complete demonstrator to validate the deliverables of the project. Based on a cobot and on a vision system, the platform will be developed to make real and shape the defect detection system.
MachineSight will also support also the other partners in carrying out their tasks.
Sirris is the R&D center for the technological industry in Belgium. Sirris is a membership organisation with almost 2,500 industrial members (95% are SMEs) from sectors as varied as metals and plastics, product manufacturing, electromechanics, mechatronics and ICT. The mission of Sirris is to support the member companies to increase their competitive position on the international market through technological innovation. Sirris also carries out applied research and development in close cooperation with industry and academic world. Sirris has 160 staff members, mostly engineers and R&D scientists. More specifically within the scope of this project, two Sirris departments will be involved: 1) The Sirris Product Development Hub that assists companies in product development thanks to highlevel internal resources (design, machining, additive manufacturing, replication, metrology) and 2) The Sirris ICT team is at the cutting edge in terms of applied research but also in terms of support to Belgian companies in the following disciplines: smart products, digital transformation, software engineering, mechatronics and data science.
The contribution of Sirris will be multifaceted: definition of process parameters affecting the parts quality, support in the identification of the inspection equipment, identification of sensors, definition of the software architecture and computing location, data collection and IoT/cyberphysical systems. The Wallonia use case is going to exploit the resources of the Product Development Hub (injection moulding and micro moulding, 3D printing, micro machining…) to improve the process and quality of the data sources. This use case will be mainly linked to the injection of plastic parts with micro details but will can be extended to other types of parts. Sirris will be leader of WP3 and WP4 and will participate in WP2 and WP7 as well.
Beia Consult International (www.beiaro.eu), a SIEMENS partner, is a R&D performing SME, founded in 1991, and one of the leading providers of ICT solutions and services in Romania for cloud communications and IoT telemetry. The company’s references include over 5,000 turnkey projects for advanced IT and communications solutions. BEIA is active in the following domains: service innovation, hardware, sensors, actuators, information technologies, data storage and processing (back end), interfaces, software (front end), integration, communication technologies, learning & training, standardisation, communication/dissemination/marketing, business development, project management. Geographically, BEIA covers the whole country of Romania, and as fields of activities, BEIA offer professional communication solutions, such as data networks, telemonitoring and radiotelemetry, as well as consultancy and implementation of ICT solutions. BEIA has experience in the development of IoT/Wireless Sensor Networks, designed to establish specific secure communications channels or to monitor different system specific parameters, and in the testing and development of several intelligent automation and control systems for various environments. Within this project, BEIA will lead the WP2, WP6 and WP8. Also, BEIA will participate in WP3, by providing its expertise in communication and use of IoT in the industrial manufacturing sector, in WP4 and in WP7.
PETAL SA company, headquartered in Husi, Romania, is an SME which was founded in 1949 and has an experience of more than 30 years in oil equipment processing, valves, industrial valves and over 40 years of experience in the processing of metallurgical equipment. Within the project, the PETAL company will be implemented one of the project use cases and therefore will be involved in WP2, WP3, WP4, WP6 and WP7.