After three years of working on the FASD (Adjusted Manufacturing Simulation For Zero Defects) project, it has come to an end. The project was focused on developing specific sensors for measuring material and product properties (car body sealing systems) during the manufacturing process, gathering data and development of simulation models for subsequent prediction in real time of the product properties and process variables.
The development of the sensors and their integration with existing ones, in combination with the process behavior models will allow the results of the model to be updated continuously and therefore, during the monitoring of the production chain, real-time decisions can be made about the variation of the process parameters and the adjustment of the final characteristics of the product, avoiding or minimizing deviations, ensuring that the main indicators remain within the permissible tolerance ranges and allowing the production line supervisors to reconfigure them in an agile manner for the manufacture of batches with different design specifications.
The FASD project is aligned with the Industry 4 concept and is based on some of the digital enablers proposed by it, such as digital twins and simulation, big data, cyber-physical systems and cloud computing, among others.
This project was funded by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism of the Government of Spain with FEDER (European Fund for Regional Development) funds. Now we must start exploiting the results obtained.
