47th meetup - Industry 4.0

Industry 4.0 is a name for the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies. It includes cyber-physical systems, the Internet of things, cloud computing and cognitive computing. And it is mostly data-driven! An excellent topic for our meetup! We do have some major companies and startups active in the field!

Presentations

1/ Marry Workflow and Big Data at TenForce (Bastiaan Deblieck, TenForce)
TenForce built a software product that is essentially a workflow system. Over the last 15 years we also built a nice reputation through our projects with semantic technology, linked open data, metadata, big data, …
In our presentation we will share our vision and activities to make our workflow system smarter; and we will show you what we learned from some of the research projects we have been working on.

• Industry 4.0, the TenForce solution and our research with KUL (Jetro Wils)
• Big Data Europe, learnings and results from a large scale EC research project (Jonathan Langens)
• SPECIAL, how to enforce GDPR in big data solutions (Uroš Milosevic)

2/ Prescriptive maintenance on filters (Youri Soons, Sitech)
It is not uncommon for a chemical plant to produce a revenue of up to 1 million euros per day. Imaginably, unplanned downtime of critical assets is prevented as much as possible by designing a tailor-made maintenance strategy. In a prescriptive approach, not only the upcoming failure is predicted, but actions are prescribed as well to prevent or mitigate the consequences. A combination of sensor- and process data has been successively used by Sitech to develop models for over 600 pieces of equipment running live in an online platform. I'm working on a decision support tool for filters at a chemical plant. The highly variable service life of these filters ranging from 1 to 10 days hinders them to be operated in an efficient way. After years of fruitful attempts to develop a physical (white box) model, my task is now to take a data-driven approach and accurately predict the Remaining Useful Life (RUL). I am still working on this project so I'm actively soliciting input during this interactive presentation.

Agenda

19h30 - doors
20h00 - Industry 4.0 (Bastiaan Deblieck, TenForce)
20h45 - break
21h00 - Prescriptive maintenance on filters (Youri Soons, Sitech)
21h45 - Networking