Apps

Description:

The Open Innovation Platform (OIP) integrates materials, products, and processes to enhance the efficiency of the manufacturing processes. To this end, product specifications, all information related to material properties and materials modelling, as well as information collected from manufacturing processes and product quality criteria, must be accessible and ensured along the product lifecycle from the initial design and conceptualisation.

The OIP core serves as a bridge between different applications, services, or databases, enabling them to communicate and function together. It offers the ability to simplify and streamline the communication, integration, and scalability of complex systems, enhancing the overall efficiency and agility of business operations. It leverages a modular open-source approach allowing the user to choose the best components to be deployed in the manufacturing context and the usage of standards to facilitate data exchange among several applications.

The OIP Core is part of the Open Innovation Platform and ensures that different enterprise applications, such as Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Digital Thread and others, can seamlessly share data and interact with each other. It enables the deployment and operation of several types of services.

It is based on a service-oriented architecture and focuses on the implementation of SaaS methodology integrating manifold software solutions and data-services. It enables data acquisition from a variety of resources (smart sensors, other legacy systems, etc.); pre-processing of data for an efficient dispatching to other PIONEER components and deployment services; data analysis using algorithms running on top of OIP Core modules.

OIP Core is based on open source FIWARE and Apache components and guarantees security using the standard protocol OAuth 2.0 (based on Keycloak), leveraging this way the support of a big community for enhancements and problem resolution.

A variety of additional services complement and enhance the solution provided. These services can improve efficiency, security, and overall functionality, depending on the deployment model used.

• managed Services: they involve outsourcing the management and maintenance of IT infrastructure. This includes tasks like monitoring, troubleshooting, and software updates
• monitoring and Performance Management: these services enable real-time monitoring of IT infrastructure, software applications, and cloud services to ensure they are operating efficiently and meet performance standards
• backup and Disaster Recovery: it ensures that data is backed up regularly and can be restored in the event of a system failure, data loss, or disaster
• security Services: they protect the software, infrastructure, and data from cyber threats and unauthorized access
• training: it ensures the customer will receive the appropriate information to fully understand and take advantage of the solution

Use Case:

The OIP core has three main deployment models:

• on premise - the solution is installed and runs on the organization's own hardware and servers within its premises. By leveraging a single docker compose installation file, services are downloaded to the local machine. Since data are stored on-site, companies can implement their own security protocols and policies to meet internal standards.
• cloud - the solution is hosted and maintained outside the organisation; it accessed over the internet. In this SaaS approach, all aspects of infrastructure, maintenance, and security are managed by the solution provider (ENG). In this model, data iare stored off-site.
• hybrid - this is a combination of on-premise and cloud approaches. The organization uses a mix of both on-premise infrastructure for certain functions and cloud infrastructure for others. In this way, sensitive data are kept on-premise while leveraging the cloud for less sensitive tasks or applications.

Dependencies:

• Docker Engine
• Minimum 8GB RAM
• Docker Compose >= 2.27.1
• OpenSSL >=3.4.0

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