Submitted by COCOP on 2019, October 1 - 17:55
By Jose Ignacio Barbero from TECNALIA (www.tecnalia.com)
To limit global warming to below 2°C and to close as possible to 1.5 °C, the world must reach net-zero CO2-emissions by 2050 [1].
Submitted by COCOP on 2019, September 2 - 09:39
By Peter Craamer from MSI (www.msigrupo.com)
Research & Development is very expensive. Many millions of Euros are invested every year in R&D at European, National and Regional level. Through many programs research centres, universities and companies receive money to invest in resources which produce knowledge to be able to improve products / services so that companies can evolve with the final goal to improve the society we all live in.
Submitted by COCOP on 2019, July 2 - 12:59
By Norbert Link and Norbert Holzknecht from BFI (www.bfi.de)
Surrogate models are a technology to extract knowledge made by sophisticated software models and to accelerate the achievement of results made by such models.
Submitted by COCOP on 2019, June 3 - 16:25
By Asier Arteaga from SIDENOR (https://www.sidenor.com/es/
The steel is a mature material, it is produced in several forms and compositions optimized for products ranging from very thin flat sheets to big casted steel pieces. Each of the products has its own requirements and difficulties. There are requirements about chemical composition, mechanical properties, internal quality and surface quality among others. Concretely, surface quality refers to the absence of cracks in the surface.
Submitted by COCOP on 2019, May 2 - 12:52
By Petri Kannisto from Tampere University (https://www.tuni.fi; http://kannisto.org/)
In the COCOP project, the aim is to enable the plant-wide optimisation of facilities that operate multiple unit processes. Such optimisation realises with software that apply mathematical methods to online process data.
Submitted by COCOP on 2019, April 1 - 12:44
Submitted by COCOP on 2019, February 22 - 18:39
By Carlos Leyva from IDENER (www.idener.es)
During the last years, the Industry 4.0 concept has become more and more relevant in several industries as the manufacturing one.
Submitted by COCOP on 2018, November 23 - 14:15
Submitted by COCOP on 2018, October 1 - 09:23
By Jørgen K H Knudsen from 2-control ApS (www.2-control.dk) and Teresa Gutiérrez from TECNALIA (www.tecnalia.com)
A modern plant often consists of several sub-plants, which are operated and controlled from separate controls rooms as described in [1]. It is an important task to coordinate the operation of these sub-plants in order to obtain an optimal solution at the wide-plant level.
Submitted by COCOP on 2018, September 4 - 14:04
By Jani Jansson from Outotec (https://www.linkedin.com/company/outotec/)
Quite often in the research and development work, the business potential of the idea is estimated before starting the work with full speed, but the business perspective is lost somewhere among the joy of creating something new and exciting.
Submitted by COCOP on 2018, July 27 - 12:38
By Fernando Boto and Zigor Lizuain from TECNALIA (www.tecnalia.com)
In the industrial environment there are processes that must work uninterruptedly and whose operating conditions are complex; in these cases, advanced supervision, control and fault detection systems are required to guarantee correct operation.
Submitted by COCOP on 2018, July 9 - 11:05
Submitted by COCOP on 2018, June 6 - 17:43
By Jouni Savolainen (@jsavolainen74, https://www.linkedin.com/in/jouni-savolainen-135840/)
One major development in the COCOP project is the implementation workflow. Or, in other words: what needs to be done when the COCOP concept is taken into use at a plant? To put it shortly, COCOP implementation is a process automation delivery project. With a twist or two.
Submitted by COCOP on 2018, May 15 - 09:34
Submitted by COCOP on 2018, April 4 - 08:53
By Alexander Ebel (www.bfi.de)
Interdisciplinary projects such as COCOP require a continuous exchange of knowledge between project developers during the development phase. Information about data exchange protocols is particularly important, since these are frequently changed during development. At the same time, these protocols are used by several developers to implement parts of the solution.
Submitted by COCOP on 2018, March 1 - 09:14
Submitted by COCOP on 2018, February 5 - 15:36
By Petri Kannisto and David Hästbacka from Tampere University of Technology (http://www.tut.fi)
In the modern world, industrial enterprises must constantly improve their efficiency for multiple reasons.
Submitted by COCOP on 2018, January 3 - 14:12
By Tiina Pajula from VTT (www.vtt.fi)
According to the International Energy Agency, the iron and steel industry are one of the biggest sources of CO2 emissions globally (IEA Clean Coal Centre, 2012). Copper smelter sites are big SO2 emission sources. Both manufacturing industries addressed in the COOCP project have potential to reduce their total CO2 and SO2 emissions by optimising their sub-processes.
Submitted by COCOP on 2017, December 8 - 16:26
By Carlos Leyva from IDENER (www.idener.es)
A System Requirement Specification report (SRS) is a document that describes the system to be developed. It includes the set of requirements (functional, non-functional, …) that the system needs to fulfil in order to consider its execution complete.
Submitted by COCOP on 2017, November 2 - 20:09
By Michael Kohlgrueber and Antonius Schroeder from Technische Universität Dortmund (http://www.sfs.tu-dortmund.de/cms/en/sfs_workingareas/index.html)
Social innovation focuses on changing social practices to overcome societal challenges, meeting social demands, and exploiting inherent opportunities in better ways than done before. It represents an understanding of innovation that goes beyond pure technological and/or business innovation.
Submitted by COCOP on 2017, October 2 - 09:37
By Jose Ignacio Barbero from TECNALIA (www.tecnalia.com)
“Industry 4.0” is about the fourth industrial revolution introducing the smart factory, where cyber-physical systems (CPS) monitor the manufacturing processes and make decentralized decisions. The term originates from a project in the high-tech strategy of the German government, which promotes the computerization of manufacturing.
Submitted by COCOP on 2017, August 31 - 14:56
By N. Link and N. Holzknecht (www.bfi.de or on LinkedIn and ResearchGate)
The continuous improvement of production processes takes a major part of the daily work for those responsible for quality and production in process industry. Here, Data Mining (DM) technologies, as a part of Data Analytics (DA), have shown their usability and suitability in many published applications. Furthermore, many powerful DM tools are available, both commercial and open source applications.
Submitted by COCOP on 2017, August 1 - 17:59
By Jørgen K H Knudsen from 2-control ApS (https:// www.linkedin.com/in/jørgen-k-h-knudsen-8b903b2b/)
One of the most successful techniques during the last decade for optimisation of process units has been Model Predictive Control, MPC. As the name implies, MPC uses a mathematical model of the process to predict the future states of a process as a function of inputs to the process.
Submitted by COCOP on 2017, July 10 - 09:26
By Peter Craamer from MSI group (www.msigrupo.com)
In 1900, just 15% of the world’s population lived in cities. Now that proportion is over 50%, and in 2050 it is expected to be more than 65% which is a lot of people. The world’s urban population is expected to surpass six billion by 2045. As a result, cities will face numerous challenges in meeting the needs of their growing urban populations, especially when considering clean water distribution and waste water treatment. Technology can help with this.
Submitted by COCOP on 2017, June 5 - 17:23
By Roger Ivaska and Peter Lingman (www.optimation.se/en)
In the design and maintenance of plant-wide control and advisory systems, measuring system performance is fundamental.
Submitted by COCOP on 2017, May 22 - 18:04
By Jani Jansson and Mikko Korpi from Outotec (https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/241781/)
The mining industry is well known to be challenged with declining productivity and ore grades, aging workforce and tightening regulations. It is also considered to be a decade or two behind some of the other heavy processing industries like oil and chemical industry for example.
Submitted by COCOP on 2017, May 2 - 12:50
By Felix Bayón from SIDENOR (https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/651735/)
The Spanish Special Bar Quality steel sector, confronts a situation of loss of competitiveness compared to other countries and that motivated by three main reasons: a state energy policy that is unfavorable in view of the intensive character in power consumption of the Sector, a very restrictive environmental regulation and a cost of raw material and human resources in disadvantage.
Submitted by COCOP on 2017, March 6 - 12:07
By Matti Vilkko (@MVilkko, https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattivilkko/)
The vision of the COCOP project:
“Complex process industry plants are optimally run by the operators with the guidance of a coordinating, real-time optimisation system” is based on strong mathematical background.
Submitted by COCOP on 2017, January 31 - 12:24
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