The MTA SZTAKI Smart Factory: Platform for Research and Project-oriented Skill Development in Higher Education

Nowadays, the potential of learning factories as test beds and research plants is gaining recognition, and several facilities are extended or built up already with these complementing purposes in mind---among them the Smart Factory at the Fraunhofer Project Center at MTA SZTAKI currently completing a major stage of development. The paper presents the structure and key design principles of the plant, and explains how the composition and functionalities of the equipment implement focal principles of the Industry 4.0 and Cyber-Physical Systems concepts. Furthermore, it is shown how the Smart Factory provides students with challenges and resources for project-oriented development of their skills, and where these opportunities fit into technical higher education by hosting both individual student projects and courses with a specific structure of progress

Integrált robotikai kiszolgáló alrendszer fejlesztése és megvalósítása

A kutatóintézetünk kiber-fizikai minta-gyártórendszerénvégzett folyamatos fejlesztés legújabb eredménye egy lineáris szánrendszerrel bővített, nyílt forráskódú (open-source) projektből származó asztali robot (desktop robot). Az öttengelyes, párhuzamos megfogójú robot 3D nyomtatott elemekből álló váza a rendszer konkrét igényeinek megfelelően került áttervezésre. A cikk bemutatja a robot tervezésének és integrációjának folyamatát

Moduláris szerelési paletta oktatási célú kollaboratív robotos munkaállomáshoz: Modular assembly pallet for educational workstation with collaborative robot

Relying on the resources of a collaborative demonstration system developed at the SZTAKI Industry 4.0 laboratory in Győr, students participating in a Learning Factory course perform complex operations in layout and process planning. The article introduces the system, its capabilities and limitations. Furthermore, possibilities of robotised assembly of the selected ball valve type are described, along with the the design of assembly supports and their modularization. Kivonat A SZTAKI győri Ipar 4.0 laboratóriumában kialakított kollaboratív mintarendszer erőforrásaira támaszkodva egy Learning Factory tanfolyam keretein belül különféle egyetemek BsC. hallgatói layout- és folyamattervezési feladaton keresztül oldanak meg komplex műveleteket. A cikk bemutatja a kialakított rendszert, lehetőségeit és korlátait. Részletesen ismerteti a kitűzött feladatban használt gömbcsap robotos szerelésének lehetőségeit, a szerelhetőséget biztosító ülékek kialakítását, azok modularizációját

Manufacturing Execution System Integration through the Standardization of a Common Service Model for Cyber-Physical Production Systems

Digital transformation and artificial intelligence are creating an opportunity for innovation across all levels of industry and are transforming the world of work by enabling factories to embrace cutting edge Information Technologies (ITs) into their manufacturing processes. Manufacturing Execution Systems (MESs) are abandoning their traditional role of legacy executing middle-ware for embracing the much wider vision of functional interoperability enablers among autonomous, distributed, and collaborative Cyber-Physical Production System (CPPS). In this paper, we propose a basic methodology for universally modeling, digitalizing, and integrating services offered by a variety of isolated workcells into a single, standardized, and augmented production system. The result is a reliable, reconfigurable, and interoperable manufacturing architecture, which privileges Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (OPC UA) and its rich possibilities for information modeling at a higher level of the common service interoperability, along with Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) lightweight protocols at lower levels of data exchange. The proposed MES architecture has been demonstrated and validated in several use-cases at a research manufacturing laboratory of excellence for industrial testbeds