Increasing demands pose greater challenges to Defence Production and in order to fulfill these aspirations there is need to employ technologies which not only improve productivity and provide greater product flexibility, but also provide visibility and control of the entire Design to Production process and enable real-time decision making based on the data generated from the design office to the shop floor on a unified cyber-physical platform employing machine analytic software/hardware IoT.
The objective of this project is to develop and implement Industry 4.0 protocols for Ordnance Factory Kanpur for improved productivity and process flexibilities. Industry 4.0, commonly referred to as the fourth industrial revolution, is a name given to 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.
The novelty of the project is integration of various interdisciplinary technologies, involving technologies of
- Component and System Design & Dynamics,
- Manufacturing Processes,
- Quality Control,
- Sensors,
- Data Acquisition,
- Signal Processing
- Neural Networks
- Fuzzy Logic
- Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Sustainability (RAMS).
These technologies in novel interdisciplinary ways provide for • Interconnection of machines, devices, sensors, and people via the Internet of Things (IoT) or the Internet of People (IoP) • Information transparency with Big Data for Decision Making • Support Systems for humans and machines for performing tasks in unison • Decentralized and autonomous decision making.