Transforming Programme WP10 - C – Interoperable production systems

The green digital transition affects the manufacturing industry at all levels, from markets and business models, as well as equipment and workers on the shop floor. Despite changes in purpose and tools, the digitalization of manufacturing will be able to enable continuous real digital synchronization and will therefore change production paradigms. Digitalization, as a paradigm, aims to respond to certain challenges facing the wood processing industry, such as: many product references, highlighting ever greater product customization, greater complexity in the production of ever smaller series, very demanding quality controls, both in raw materials and finished products, defect-free products and continuous improvement in flexibility, productivity, precision, safety and sustainability. This requires a combination of technologies and solutions in areas such as flexible automation, modeling and simulation (digital twin), business systems integration, IoT, computer vision, location systems and energy management systems.

In this context, DigiIndustry aims to:

(i) Automate a series of processes in order to make the production of chipboard more efficient and effective;

(ii) Automatic, flexible, adaptive and intelligent warehouse management, with the challenge of lifting loads of more than 8 tons to a height of 30 meters at a rate of 18 batches per hour inbound and 25 batches per hour outbound;

(iii) Energy decarbonization, through the development of an intelligent system for the dynamic adjustment of electricity consumption, namely by presenting criteria for optimizing the scheduling and sequencing of production."