LINKEDDESIGN Linked Knowledge in Manufacturing, Engineering and Design for Next-Generation Production

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Manufacturing is the driving force of Europe’s economy, contributing over €6,553 billion in GDP and providing more than 30 million jobs. A strong manufacturing sector is vital to European economic growth and stability but this sector is facing increasingly difficult challenges.

The economic crisis has decreased industry output by around 20%, while global competition is growing dramatically. Furthermore, new trends and paradigms like an increasing demand for sustainable manufacturing and mass customization are increasing. ICT is the key enabler for coping with these changes to push engineering and manufacturing excellence as driver for European success. LinkedDesign is intended to boost today’s engineers by providing an integrated, holistic view on data, persons and processes across the full product lifecycle as vital resource for the outstanding competitive design of novel products and manufacturing processes.

To achieve this goal the project will develop the Linked Engineering and mAnufacturing Platform (LEAP) as an integrated information system for manufacturing design that federates all relevant product lifecycle information, independent of its format, location, originator, and time of creation.

The LinkedDesign project aims for user-centric lifecycle information management. LEAP will therefore provide specific knowledge exploitation solutions such as design decision support systems and collaborative reporting. LEAP will provide a context-driven access to federated information and knowledge and foster cross-discipline collaborations between users by novel approaches for collaborative engineering. LinkedDesign will provide tight feedback connections to existing engineering tools (e.g., CAx Systems) in order to push back formalised knowledge to enable the automated design of elementary product components.

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Web resources:	http://www.linkeddesign.eu https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/284613
Start date:	01-09-2011
End date:	31-08-2015
Total budget - Public funding:	12 561 115,00 Euro - 8 061 848,00 Euro

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What is clearly missing in the current ICT landscape for manufacturing is an integrated, holistic view on data across the full product lifecycle. Especially the design and engineering of products and manufacturing processes is decoupled from the actual process execution. As experiences of the past show, a tight integration of all tools used throughout a product lifetime is not feasible.LinkkME addresses these shortcomings by providing an integrated, holistic view on data, persons and processes across the product lifecycle as a vital resource for the outstanding competitive design of novel products and manufacturing processes. To achieve this goal the project will develop the Linked Engineering and mAnufacturing Platform (LEAP) as an integrated information system for manufacturing design. LEAP federates all product lifecycle information relevant to drive engineering and manufacturing processes, independent of its format, location, originator, and time of creation. Besides the unified access to the integrated information, LEAP will provide specific knowledge exploitation solutions like sentiment analysis and design decision support systems to analyse the integrated information.Within LinkkME we aim for a user-centric lifecycle information management. LEAP will provide a context-driven access to federated information and knowledge and foster cross-discipline collaborations between users by novel approaches for collaborative engineering.Finally, LinkkME will provide tight feedback connections to existing engineering tools (e.g., CAx Systems) in order to push back formalised knowledge to enable the automated design of elementary product components.All concepts and components developed within the LinkkME project will be evaluated using three application prototypes deployed at the application partners' industry sites. Further, the project team will develop four show case demonstrators in the Living Labs associated to the consortium.In terms of impact, partners estimate reductions of up to 50% in time spent for search and knowledge acquisition through the improved (collaborative) information access and reductions of over 20% in time to market through support and automation of product and manufacturing design provided by the engineering platform.