Vicenç Segales, Engineering Director of Codorniu, details in this interview the challenges and developments of the Ignite project to integrate 4.0 solutions
What has the Ignite project consisted of?
The IGNITE project (Intelligent Machinery Monitoring and Encompassing) seeks to research, design and develop an efficient, flexible, standard and secure information architecture for the integration of industry 4.0 solutions.
These must allow the interconnection of the different components of the value chain (machines and sensors), the monitoring and control systems (PLCs / SCADAs), the management systems (MES / PLM) and the human team, as a basis. interoperable, flexible and efficiently scalable for the implementation of advanced solutions in Industry 4.0 hosted in the cloud and very focused on serving as a support for the implementation of Artificial Intelligence solutions applied to industrial processes.
How does Codorniu contribute to the project?
The most important contributions by Codorniu are being the definition of industrial requirements for both the need for technological solutions for process improvement and technological infrastructures, and the testing of data collection and transmission through the pilot platform in real conditions. of plant as well as the validation of the treatment of the data obtained and the analysis of the possibilities of exploitation.
What is the main progress of the project?
The digital transformation of the industrial company is a very complex and very dynamic process. The main advance is the development of a platform that allows the integration of both existing applications and new applications that will come in the medium term, in a format of maximum interoperability, flexibility, reliability and scalability.
And the main challenge, what has it been?
The correct definition of the scope and needs and the analysis of current technologies have been the basis, but the two challenges have been the provisional analysis of the technological and operational needs in the future, and the design of experiments that would allow a validation. in real working conditions.
Last but not least, the analysis of cybersecurity is also one of the key points.
