Data Management Component for Virtual Factories Systems

The vf-OS project aims to develop a middleware platform for the virtual factory of the future. The vf-OS is composed of several modules providing interoperability mechanisms for systems to exchange real-time data. Moreover, it enables the managing of data flows, transforming data, providing open API’s to ease integration process. The proposed Data Management Component (DMC) intends to cover the issues related to data handling, pre-processing, extracting, and data flows management for Virtual Factories. It integrates four subcomponents: a data infrastructure middleware element that handles the data communications; a data storage mechanism able to work with high loads and triples; a semantic and mapping function to establish model information integration; and an analytical module composed by machine learning and prediction mechanisms to enable knowledge extraction from the vast amount of data generated by the associated virtual factory system.