Our project: joining forces to promote learning and to build sustainable teams
For our common future - and continuing friendships
KPI-NTNU Collaboration within Industry 4.0 Education
Project under the Eurasia program of Siu/Diku (now HK-dir). The current projects, and work on this wiki is based on cooperation with colleagues and friends at the KPI in Kyiv. This collaboration started around 2010, while building a common foundation for education within sustainable manufacturing.
HK-dir - our sponsor in Norway - challenged all the projects of the Eurasia program to present a 120 second (max) video about each project.
Project video on NTNU Panopto video-platform (link)
The final workshop in the project was in December, 2022. 13 female staff and students could travel to NTNU in Gjøvik, during wartime. With hope for a better future!
https://fmm.kpi.ua/en/ntuu-kpi-collaboration-within-industry-4-0-education-2/
Link to information page for the the joint summer-school held online during the COVID-19 pandemic, in September 2020: https://kpi.ua/en/2020-09-17-no (link)
See this wiki-page for details of the project and cooperation with colleagues in Kyiv, Ukraine (to be contd....)
Share if possible!
...And protect what needs to be protected. That's the way to go for efficient data and information exchange in an open, digital economy....
Links to MOOC on "Circular Manufacturing" from Summer School (2019).
Finance support: INMAN project
This is an open online video lecture-series, made by students and staff at NTNU together with Waseda University, Tokyo (Japan) and IIT Hyderabad (India)
The starting page with overview of lectures in the modules of the summer school may be found on NTNU Panopto-platform via link:
https://ntnu.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Sessions/List.aspx?folderID=78bbac2d-4363-413c-b682-ada600ab044e
The main link to the MOOC is shared via the webpage below. The MOOC also includes contributions from the project (NTNU-KPI Collaboration within Industry 4.0 Education) and HK-dir.
Web-page: http://circularmanufacturing.net/mooc-on-circular-manufacturing/
NTNU Panopto video platform (open access)
Examples from Module 2 from Summer School 2019 (INTPART + )
Manufacturing Systems Design includes e.g.:
Prof. Takata, on Reuse and Maintenance….
https://ntnu.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?pid=ffe1ed4d-f821-4220-9b44-adc700cf248c
Ass. Prof. Østbø (_stb), on Enterprise Architecture….
https://ntnu.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?pid=ffe1ed4d-f821-4220-9b44-adc700cf248c&id=053afd97-4792-43b1-ad0f-adb100b967ed&advance=true
Stories and Context (Learning Factory examples)
Thesis work with a company/external enterprise
Research and development in the manufacturing industry - and many other industries and enterprises includes cooperating with universities like NTNU at several levels, for short term internships, small projects and thesis work- from bachelor level, via master thesis to a possible academic or "enterprise" funded PhD - partly financed by the company. Usually PhD's are supported by internal university funding (academic)- or through external project financing, typically research grants.
A good example of a recent PhD-project for the company Jotne in Norway - on Digital twins, as published on the web for UiO in Oslo:
https://www.mn.uio.no/censss/english/news/young_talents.html
Doing a doctoral degree with a company
Remi Lanza recently finished his doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from NTNU while working for Jotne.
-I contacted my Master´s thesis advisor because I wished to do a doctoral degree in simulation or software development. He told me Jotne was looking for a candidate so I contacted them, Lanza says.
He met with Jotne and then applied for the doctoral degree position at the company.
-For the thesis I researched how standards such as ISO 10303 can make sharing, storing, integrating and comparing data from different types of structural analyses and tests easier, in for example the aerospace industry, says Lanza.
He recommends applying for doctoral thesis work with companies who offer such positions, and as in his case, is supported by an industry PhD funding scheme.
-This way you are employed while you do your PhD, the research you do for the degree is relevant for the industry you are in and the company you are working for, and you get to meet and work with people who will be your colleagues after the degree is done, Lanza says.
See original for context and background: https://www.mn.uio.no/censss/english/news/young_talents.html
Master thesis work based on a student-project.
It's usually best to work with your supervisor to find the right focus and scope of a project suitable for a master thesis. We encourage partners and enterprises /companies of all sizes to consider asking themselves or us to frame a research question or suitable industrial problem/challenge as themes for a possible student project. With or without local supervision, or external research partners- like SINTEF. Quite a few projects with external stake-holders are architected with student-work in mind, and complex projects may include both PhDs and master- and bachelor level students. Examples are many- but to share a good example of an above-average complex student-led project and how that resulted in a particular master thesis (or 2, and more...) the following references in NTNU Open may be worth while to share:
Implementing Lean Systems Engineering in the DNV Fuel Fighter project
(Master thesis, 2012)
This thesis is a practical application of Systems Engineering in a full-scale project. The author has participated as a member of NTNU's Eco-marathon team, who has spent the last two semesters designing and manufacturing ...Lean Systems Engineering (LSE): Hands-on Experiences in Applying LSE to a Student Eco-Car Build Project
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
The Systems Engineering (SE) field is moving rapidly into commercial industries. Also, SE has more recently been combined with Lean to make it more suitable for highly competitive applications. This paper seeks to explore ...
See NTNU web-pages for updates on the DNV Fuel fighter and other student-projects <link> to be added... (and other page, Stories and Context#:~:text=Student%2Dprojects%20(extra%2Dcurricular)%20at%20NTNU)
Contribute to Open Standards!
We are "Technology Diplomats", playing the role of the UN for technology. Get involved!
(Gary Martz, Intel, on why it's important to contribute to standards)- ref. Brighttalk below
From LinkedIn and webinar by Brighttalk.com:
What do Wifi, USB, Ethernet, Bluetooth and #5G all have in common? They are standards that resulted from collaboration of companies across the industry (Intel among them), to solve a common problem. While standards aren't new to the #industrial sector--broadly interoperable standards for industrial #automation are. Tune in to. (....) the conversation with Gary Martz ....: https://lnkd.in/g4jkjwZ7
Education: Study Programs
At NTNU, the starting page helps you find an overview of all the possible study programs - each with their special focus may be found at the web-page:
The most active study programs that use and contribute to content on these wiki-pages are MSUMA and META 4.0, now accepting students:
Master in Sustainable Manufacturing "MSUMA"
Application deadline
- Non-EU/non-EEA students: 1 December
- EU/EEA/Swiss students: 1 March
- Norwegian/Nordic students: 15 April
2-year international master program at NTNU in Gjøvik, linked to the Raufoss Industry Park demonstrating world-class manufacturing in Norway.
https://ncemanufacturing.no/om-oss
https://www.ntnu.edu/studies/msuma
With a focus on Sustainable, Digital Manufacturing, the NTNU team also contributes to the new European joint master program "META 4.0". Students study in two or more countries, in a multi-cultural environment in this very attractive program. We aim to provide the best possible education for strong students with an interest in both materials, physics and future, sustainable manufacturing. See below link:
Erasmus Mundus Joint Master "META 4.0", - New from 2023!
https://www.master-meta4-0.eu/
Networks and inspiration
From large consortia and enterprises like the IIC, OMG, Siemens, Apple, RTI and the OPC Foundation to active individuals like Gerben Wierda.... and research labs like NOKIA Bell Labs...
Examples in the following links (and the related pages):
On the emerging and future Industrial Internet of things, holistic views and detailed perspectives. We learn and share as we go - and select a few of the most important or most inspirational texts to start further research and discussions.
https://www.iiconsortium.org/blog/
https://www.rti.com/blog
RTI and Fujitsu are active members of the IIC, and the latter gives a nice intro on relevant work on enterprise architecture in the entry "What an enterprise architecture should look like in a modern factory environment":
https://corporate-blog.global.fujitsu.com/fgb/2022-03-29/02/
NOKIA Bell-Labs:
https://www.bell-labs.com/institute/blog/we-are-going-a-new-era-in-space-exploration-has-begun
Revisiting the moon - and the 75th anniversary of the invention of the transistor both were a part of November/December 2022. So is the war in the Ukraine.... and blogs we follow and share are important to give hope for a better future, and better research. Please help where you can to share knowledge - and build back better - everywhere it's needed, in particular to help our friends in and around Kyiv. Support is needed on all levels- not least moral support!
Back to basics- and the technologies of "connecting people": A good place to start to compare communication solutions/technology for industrial internet of things (from 2016 onwards):
https://www.rti.com/blog/industrial-iot-communication-solutions-which-ones-for-you-comparison
However, the choice(s) for connectivity very much depends on the application, and the project and product- and evolution over time, which is a question of understanding (complex) requirements and possible use-cases, functions and capabilities.....over time....
Nice blog on IT-strategy and Architecture
https://ea.rna.nl/all-that-it-what-is-it-doing-to-us/
Aslo, much of visions of the future of smart manufacturing, including new (and more) sensors and increasingly advanced information systems for better decision-support are fueled by emerging ICT-technology we all use- more or less.
Industry 4.0 is about merging the physical worlds of operational technologies, with the virtual/digital domain of information technology. And in a human-centric point of view, it is the best use of new and old technologies and solutions that work best together - that will work best for us. A realistic approach must be both practical, economic, useful - but also inspirational and with a vision of future opportunities - and risks.
All that IT, is changing us as humans- and our business plans and requirements. The user-centric and human point of view is central to good IT, as elaborated very well in the series of reflections/blogs by Gerben Wierda (on IT-strategy and Architecture).
Of course, all that IT - also needs a lot of hardware and "machines", not just software. Modern mobile phones for example - are full of semiconductors as both high performance integrated circuits and many micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)-based sensors. Our mobile phones are thus also based on physical "machines", electro-mechanics, based on knowledge of physics and chemistry and not only electronics and programming - and materials technology- enabling design work and manufacturing devices in a manufacturing domain of its own (cleanrooms, fabs, semi-conductor fabrication facilities). In Norway, at least- we may find inspiration from research and education in the field of micro-and nano-technology based systems in particular... and our own small network of labs (NorFab).
Research School for Training the Next Generation of Micro- and Nanotechnology Researchers in Norway (TNNN)
(From NTNU Innsida):
Fakultet for ingeniørvitenskap01.07.2022
We are happy to announce that newly established research school in micro- and nanotechnology opens registration for PhD candidates, post doctoral researchers and their supervisors.
Research School for Training the Next Generation of Micro- and Nanotechnology Researchers in Norway (TNNN) is supported by the Research Council of Norway and will establish a vibrant national network of junior scientist working in Micro- and Nanotechnology. It will provide training in transferable skills and facilitate collaboration with industry.
More information and registration: https://www.ntnu.edu/tnnn/tnnn