VFF-MTP - Virtual Factory Framework – MTP

MTP Theme:

Key Technologies

The EU-VFF promotes major time and cost savings while increasing performance in the design, management, evaluation and reconfiguration of new or existing facilities, supporting the capability to simulate dynamic complex behaviour over the whole life cycle of the Factory.
This approach identifies four key RTD Pillars:

I     Reference Model for factory planning. The concrete outcome is a Reference Model of Factory Planning having as foundation element a Factory Data Model, that takes into account the needs of a holistic and scalable modelling of real time management of manufacturing data and of collaborative engineering networks.

II    VF Manager core. It is meant to handle the common space of abstract objects representing the Factory. This representation is based on the common factory data model defined in Pillar I.

III    Functional Modules. The decoupled Functional Modules implement the various tools and services for the factory design, reconfiguration, management, … these modules operate independently on the same Common Space of Factory Abstract Object, defined in Pillar II.

IV     Integration of Knowledge at different layers as engine for the Pillar III modules. The primary objective is to use contextual knowledge to model a wider range of complex systems and support greater comprehension of the modelled phenomenon.