IFAS 4.0 

Intelligent Fabric Solutions 4.0

Fundació Eurecat  
Arcadi Castanyer 
Type: Consultancy/Software/Hardware/AI
TRL: 7

The IFAS 4.0 intelligent solution is a digital tool for large diameter circular knitting machines that uses the principles of Industry 4.0 (smart manufacturing). This helpful tool enables you to track quality, productivity and costs related to failures, material consumption and operating inefficiencies.

This solution provides our customers with an intelligent tool for the advanced monitoring of the fabric manufacturing process based on smart photonic sensors to evaluate the machine performance, manufacturing quality and preventive maintenance. It is achieved by doing inspections of the fabric and the mechanical components susceptible to wear. Monitoring can be done both LOCAL and CLOUD, with predictive maintenance models to help plant operators. With a visualization in an interface of the values saved in the monitoring database. So that, IFAS 4.0 includes a part of hardware (sensors and infrastructure) and a part of software.

The decision-making support tool is completed with the monitoring and control parameters of the machine and process, real-time data, data analytics and trends and the application of advanced predictive models (AI-ML).

IFAS 4.0 is designed to easily integrate it in worldwide commercial machines, and it is interoperable with existing devices and external services. It should be noted that IFAS 4.0 is a custom-made solution to fit customer needs. Hence new sensor devices can be developed according to requirements and the entire solution can be deployed in a Cloud IIoT platform.

IPR / Licence

The IFAS 4.0 license will be treated according to the developments and solutions to be carried out.

Price depends on the number of personalized developments and solutions to carry out.

Contact Person

Arcadi Castanyer

Information

This IFAS 4.0 solution is tailored to our customer needs. The project begins in an initial stage of the solution customization and an expert consulting throughout the entire life cycle of the project: the personalization, the development, the implementation and the fine-tuning of the IFAS 4.0 system.

IFAS 4.0 Solution as a Service (SaaS) includes our most relevant knowledge core competences in 3D modelling, mechatronics, electronic schematics, control and monitoring software, graphical control interfaces, communications architecture development, intelligent predictive models, expert knowledge-based Database and prototyping.

Our customers are free to decide whether to deploy the entire solution in a local server or in the cloud, including the deployment in a powerful professional used IIoT platform.

Use

Eurecat has developed this current solution for monitor and supervise manufactured fabric quality, IFAS 4.0, based on next collaborative project PRECATEX - New generation of circular knitting machines. The mentioned project, PRECATEX, includes a part of new sensors developed for the use case of circular knitting machines, and a manufacturing process monitoring platform improved with the new sensors developed.

Extend

IFAS 4.0 solution does not contemplate any link or reference to open-source platforms, community or public documentation.