Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 3, 2024 (Globe Newswire) —
Trace Labs, the lead developer of OriginTrail, has joined the European Union's initiative to promote resilient and adaptive manufacturing ecosystems through the DMaaST project. Collaborating with partners in Slovenia, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Turkey, Serbia, Belgium, Lithuania, France, Denmark, and Switzerland, the initiative leverages OriginTrail's Decentralized Knowledge Graph (DKG) and Knowledge Assets (KA). Encapsulate all relevant information. It's about products, processes, equipment, and human expertise. This comprehensive approach facilitates accurate mapping of data flows and knowledge interconnections and lays the foundation for comprehensive information mapping within manufacturing ecosystems using OriginTrail DKG. Consequently, this ensures reliable, real-time data integration across organizations.
January's accident has brought renewed attention to challenges in the aviation and manufacturing industries. Boeing 737 MAX 9 door plug blown off During an Alaska Airlines flight. This incident could have been prevented if the company had established reliable communication across the organization. Such communication strengthens the value chain's responsiveness to external unforeseen events and improves operability and production planning capabilities.
Effective, transparent and reliable data exchange is paramount to promoting sustainability, resilience and energy efficiency in manufacturing. However, in recent years, various challenges have surfaced in this field.
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Supply chain disruption: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted vulnerabilities in global supply chains, leading to disruptions in the flow of materials and components. Issues such as raw material shortages, transportation bottlenecks, and labor shortages continue to impact manufacturing operations around the world.
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Cybersecurity risks: As manufacturing processes become increasingly digitalized through technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0, cybersecurity threats have become a major concern. Manufacturing facilities are increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks that can disrupt operations, steal sensitive data, and compromise product quality and safety.
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Data silo: Manufacturing organizations often operate fragmented data systems, with data siled across departments and functions. This fragmentation inhibits seamless data interoperability and prevents comprehensive insights that can drive operational efficiency and innovation.
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Lack of standards: The lack of standardized data formats and protocols complicates data exchange and integration efforts within and between manufacturing companies. Without widely accepted standards, interoperability becomes a major challenge, impeding the flow of data between different systems and parties.
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Data privacy concerns: As data collection and sharing practices in the manufacturing industry proliferate, ensuring data privacy and protection is paramount. Manufacturers must balance the need for data-driven decision-making while navigating a complex regulatory environment and protecting sensitive information from unauthorized access and misuse.
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Ownership and control: Determining ownership and managing manufacturing data can be contentious, especially in collaborative environments and supply chain networks. Disputes over data ownership, usage rights, and intellectual property can arise, complicating data sharing agreements and hampering collaborative efforts.
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Legacy system integration: Many manufacturing facilities still rely on legacy systems that were not designed with interoperability in mind. Integrating these outdated systems with modern data platforms and technologies presents significant challenges that require extensive customization, retrofitting, and investment in interoperability solutions.
DMaaST aims to make the manufacturing ecosystem more resilient and adaptable by adopting a smart manufacturing platform consisting of four layers. The data layer uses ontologies and the OriginTrail distributed knowledge graph to establish the foundation for real-time data integration across the organization. Following this, a two-level cognitive digital twin is deployed to model both the production line and value chain stages of the manufacturing service. It incorporates human expertise, data-driven algorithms, and physical modeling. Algorithms in multi-objective distributed decision support systems leverage this data to drive optimal production decisions. Results are communicated through a user-friendly interface and timely scoreboard to assess circularity, sustainability, and product traceability. Over his four years, DMaaST ensures scalability and innovation by replicating and improving manufacturing processes and providing insights for technological advances in the aerospace and electronics sectors.
Trace Labs leads the Data Working Group, which develops and validates technologies aimed at promoting data understanding, interoperability, and secure integration across organizations. The integration of OriginTrail DKG for electronics and aviation creates a new powerful knowledge base with artificial intelligence capabilities. DKG establishes a decentralized database that is accessible to all participants in the manufacturing value chain, including manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, retailers, regulators, research institutions, etc. This strengthens the manufacturing ecosystem's ability to autonomously withstand and adapt to external events.
OriginTrail DKG is widely used to promote trust and transparency in knowledge exchange for companies across a variety of industries. Now evolving to facilitate global knowledge connectivity, Distributed Search Augmentation Generation (dRAG) Framework Achieve more accurate and comprehensive AI. Given the challenge of validating results generated by AI, OriginTrail DKG, with knowledge assets as the primary resource, is a crucial innovation in this context. Provides a robust framework for ensuring ownership, discoverability, and verifiability of information used in AI systems for manufacturing.
Project information available here: DMaaST Project
CONTACT: Martina Poberaj Communications Manager Trace Labs - OriginTrail core developers office at origin-trail.com