Data Management Component for Virtual Factories Systems
Authors/Creators
- 1. CTS, UNINOVA, DEE, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal
- 2. IK4-Ikerlan Technology Research Centre, Arrasate-Mondragón, Spain
- 3. Information Catalyst SL, Valencia, Spain
Description
The vf-OS project aims to develop a middleware platform for the virtual factory of the future. The vf-OS is composed of several modules providing interoperability mechanisms for systems to exchange real-time data. Moreover, it enables the managing of data flows, transforming data, providing open API’s to ease integration process. The proposed Data Management Component
(DMC) intends to cover the issues related to data handling, pre-processing, extracting, and data flows management for Virtual Factories. It integrates four subcomponents: a data infrastructure middleware element that handles the data
communications; a data storage mechanism able to work with high loads and triples; a semantic and mapping function to establish model information integration; and an analytical module composed by machine learning and prediction
mechanisms to enable knowledge extraction from the vast amount of data generated by the associated virtual factory system.