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Future factories in the Cloud
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Manager: Hans Hansson
Duration: Jan 2016 - Dec 2020
Researchers:28
Publications: 142
Partners:
Chalmers University of Technology
University of York
Uppsala University
Research groups:
Complex Real-Time Embedded Systems
Data Communication
Dependable Software Engineering
Real-Time Systems Design

We envision future factories being designed by compositions of smart connected components, with a large part of the intelligence residing in the Cloud. This will enable increased flexibility and evolvability of manufacturing, as well as pave the way for new business models where production facilities can be accessible as cloud services.

Moving a large part of the production complexity to the Cloud has benefits in cost, energy efficiency, sharing of resources, increased flexibility, adaptability and evolvability, and provide in general a strong basis for innovation. There are however associated challenges, including providing efficient and predictable (safe and secure) computation and communication, and coping with the huge amounts of data needed to provide the envisioned intelligence. These challenges are particularly demanding in safety-relevant systems, such as transportation and manufacturing.

FiC will provide generic solutions for Future factories in the Cloud in the form of an integrated set of techniques and generic tools for future smart products and production systems, including architectural templates for cloud based production; algorithms and tools for safe and secure communication and computation, specifically handling big-data; and techniques for efficient and predictable sharing of computation and communication resources. The research will be based on real usage scenarios and results demonstrated and evaluated in industrial contexts.

Latest Publications:
Jun 2022 STRETCH: Virtual Shared-Nothing Parallelism for Scalable and Elastic Stream Processing
Aug 2021 Methodological Principles for Reproducible Performance Evaluation in Cloud Computing
Apr 2021 Supporting Automated Verification of Reconfigurable Systems with Product Lines and Model Checking
Apr 2021 Facilitating the Compliance of Process Models with Critical System Engineering Standards Using Natural Language Processing
Mar 2021 Drone-based Risk Management of Autonomous Systems Using Contracts and Blockchain
Latest and upcoming events:
Mar 2020 Special Session on "ADVANCES IN TIME-SENSITIVE COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES" at the Euromicro PDP 2020
Apr 2019 IoT Security for Low-power device
Oct 2018 Assurance Aware Contract-Based Design for Safety-Critical Systems
Latest News:
Dec 2018 Two Post-Doctoral researcher positions on topics related to Safety and security Assurance of Cyber Physical Systems
Sep 2016 Framtidens Forskning writes about FiC
Dec 2015 MDH researchers develop cloud solution for industry