For an equal access to on-demand manufacturing services today there is MEDUSA
Manufacturing as a Service Decision Support Platform
The MEDUSA framework offers a decision support platform for outsourcing production, integrating AI, data, and visualization tools, utilizing a low-code web interface for efficient production chain setup. Our algorithms improve sustainable production by matching customers with optimal providers, estimating production parameters using Digital Twins, ensuring energy efficiency, simplifying terminology, and tracking sustainability impacts.
Equality in access services to productive capacities for all European enterprises
Project name:
MEDUSA – Manufacturing as a service
Duration:
42 months
2024 October – 2028 March
Assistive Technology
Spindox, Luleå tekniska universitet, nxtControl GmbH, TTTech Industrial Automation AG, CNR – STIIMA, UST, Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte, Irish Manufacturing Research, TTS Technology Transfer System, Flexbridge, Würth Elektronik GmbH & Co. KG Circuit Board Technology, INDUSTRIO B. V., Security Smart Systems, Reepack, bee produced GmbH, Clesgo GmbH, BLUMORPHO
Our solution
The MEDUSA framework is a unique solution in today’s marketplaces, combining IT and OT technologies. Its design is divided into two parts: IT (information) and OT (automation). These parts are supported by a layered network that spans from local devices to the cloud, distributing data processing tasks and data. The goal is to handle time-sensitive tasks on local devices, while complex computing tasks are sent to the cloud.
A decision support platform for outsourcing manufacturing integrates historical and real-time data from providers, AI-based algorithms, and visualization tools. It allows users to visually create production chains, define outsourcing requirements, and input necessary data for outsourced components. The platform uses low-code development, focusing on user engagement and data processing. Front-end development uses technologies like React for visualization, while back-end components include connecting to a decentralized data layer and integrating standard connectors for communication with industry-specific marketplaces.
Vantaggi guadagnati
- MEDUSA framework will facilitate the access to manufacturing capabilities by integrating MaaS B2B marketplaces across industries and providing AI-driven services to support outsourcing, remanufacturing decisions, plant reconfiguration, production monitoring, and sustainable, circular, and transparent manufacturing, in line with EC guidelines for trustworthy AI.
- MEDUSA integrates Semantic Web technologies and multi-ontology knowledge graph for seamless information sharing, modeling production assets and security provisions, generating adaptation plans, and recognizing security threats.
- The Edge-Cloud Computing approach will support the entire MEDUSA framework ecosystem, providing computing, storage, and networking services for various components and production assets. The Edge Platform in MEDUSA is an effective key-value-based multi-tenancy implementation, incorporating security mechanisms, access controls, governance structures, and collaborative data-sharing processes specific to manufacturing from the edge.
