COGNIMAN

COGNIMAN will provide the means to facilitate flexible, resilient, reconfigurable, safe, sustainable, and efficient smart manufacturing by integrating simulation, models, digital twins, sensors, Artificial Intelligence (Machine Learning), data processing and analytics, robotics, and autonomous systems in a human-centric modular toolbox that can be easily adapted to new, varying manufacturing processes and environments with the ultimate objective of boosting the European technology and manufacturing sectors competitiveness towards industrial leadership in global markets, as well as to reduce the environmental footprint of manufacturing activities.

COGNIMAN project will develop and validate a concept of “Digital Cognitive Industry for Smart Manufacturing” that will shift the future design of manufacturing processes for improved flexibility and adaptivity by tackling significant challenges of dynamic operations, efficiency, and effectivity for clean, safe, and cost-effective production, thus strengthen European manufacturing capacity. Today, manufacturing is based on models, without the full visibility on the operational processes and intensive effort for controlling the quality of production. Several manufacturing plants that are inconsistent and difficult to automate like e.g. glass fibre production, precision machine and additive manufacturing are consisting of multiple fragmented systems and approaches (including manual operations), which act as a barrier to the development and exploitation of truly smart behaviour, i.e. function of a process that can self-optimize performance based on reliable sensing, lifelong learning Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and collaborative robotics.