Outcomes, Insights and Best Practices from IIC Testbeds: Smart Factory Machine Learning for Predictive Maintenance Tesbed
and the second is in the manufacturing
facilities of the CNC machine tool
manufacturer—Aingura’s parent company,
Etxe-Tar. The machines here are able to
produce 1,000 crankshafts per day. Before
going to the end customer, the machine
must undergo a pre-series of work pieces
where the technology is deployed and tested
while the machine is producing crankshafts.
The cycle time and output is near real-time
production but in a controlled environment.
The third deployment of the testbed is in a
well-known automotive OEM’s production
facility.
with one of Xilinx’s latest technologies.
Technologies from iVeia and other vendors
of technology make up the testbed’s
hardware system.
To choose partners, testbed leads Aingura
and Xilinx combined their experience and
perspectives to understand the needs for
deploying the new technology, whether
those needs were in hardware, software,
connectivity or different platforms in the
cloud. The testbed team is built on the needs
of its architecture and continually improves
as needs become clear. Utilizing the IIC
ecosystem to find partners able to solve new
problems is crucial for building the
architecture within the testbed.
Several deliverables are planned for the
Smart Factory Machine Learning Testbed.
The most significant ones involve the new
algorithms developed by the testbed. The
testbed aims to give feedback to different
technical sessions and IIC documents based
on the testbed’s various deployments. It also
hopes to be able to guarantee the
performance of the predictive maintenance
technologies and determine what is needed
to deploy these technologies into real
industrial environments.
IIC I NTERACTIONS
The IIC Industrial Internet Reference
Architecture (IIRA) is referred to for nearly all
aspects of the testbed and helps in
understanding which partners may be useful
to build the complete architecture of the
testbed. In addition to following the
guidelines set by the IIRA, the testbed aims
to give feedback to the document, most
likely in terms of improving deployment.
T ESTBED P LANNING
With two cybersecurity companies involved
in the testbed, the IIC Industrial Internet
Security Framework (IISF) also comes into
play. The two companies combine their
points of view in conjunction with the IISF to
work toward effective security practices in
testbed implementation. These efforts are
crucial in terms of maintaining connectivity
and avoiding losing data, and the testbed
team especially considers those risks
stressed by the IIC Security Working Group.
The testbed hopes to give feedback to the
The IIC ecosystem played a major role in
building the testbed and providing the
needed resources. Every partner within the
testbed specializes in a different real need
used in testbed deployment, whether it is
cybersecurity, connectivity or cloud
integrations. The testbed started with a
product from Xilinx used to incorporate the
computing capabilities necessary for
deployment in the real industrial
environment, and now the testbed works
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