What are the APPS?
APPS (Advanced Production Planning and Scheduling) is a combination of software services grouped per package, and hardware infrastructure for the optimization of waste, energy and resources, something that in the modern tech terminology is referred to as Lean-Agile Production, where technologies such as 3D-printing and in general Additive Manufacturing are introduced to create novel materials more efficiently (less energy), with a lower cost, better properties, and less waste.
| DOMAIN | Solution (APPS) | Developing Partner | In 1 sentence |
| Cognitive HRI | Pose Detection & Tracking | Gestalt | Improve shopfloor worker ergonomics through monitoring-based intervention recommendations |
| Cognitive HRI | FaMS (Fatigue Monitoring System) + IM (Intervention Manager) | SUPSI | Detects worker discomfort or dangers in collaborating with a robot |
| Logistics Automation | Agent Optimization | National Center of Robotics (Slovakia) | Module computing the optimal number of robotic agents (various types, e.g., AGV, forklift, humans) needed to satisfy material flow in the production. |
| Logistics Automation | Person Detection & Tracking | AIMEN | Tracking operators in a shared space with robots to help human-robot interactions |
| Logistics Automation | Person Movement Decomposition | AIMEN | Virtual representation of workers pose to dynamically modify robot behaviours during task executions |
| Logistics Automation | Heatmap of Human Occupancy | Frauenhofer | Mapping human traffic in a factory to optimize routes and becoming robotic ‘eyes’ on the buffer zones. |
| Resource Optimization | ProOpt (Process Optimization) | Top Data Science | Predicts process quality and efficiency optimization while minimizing operation costs |
| Resource Optimization | BPO (Business Process Optimization) | Cyprus University of Technology | Pre-implementation scenario verification for factory process changes |
| Resource Optimization | Superset Dashboard | European Dynamics | Open source visualisation dashboard for factory data |
| Production Reconfiguration | APM (Advanced Plant Model) | INESC-TEC | Factory 3D Designer and task execution manager for OSPS compliant robots. |
| Production Reconfiguration | MPMS (Manu Process Mgnt System) | European Dynamics | Executes and assigns tasks in the production process |