Completed

Multi-disciplinary knowledge integration for digital manufacturing (Digiman)

Tallinn University of Technology ·Estonia

€139k

Grant awarded

Research and Education

Programme

27 October 2021

Signed

About this project

With the development of Internet-based technologies forming a global communication network, more and more advanced applications are being developed on that network. For manufacturing industries, product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions start to give a possibility to monitor the knowledge on a product from its conceptualization through manufacturing phase followed by product use/application till utilization of the product. Having control of the entire lifecycle is important for understanding holistically the role of a product and customers or users expectations for a manufacturer to stay competitive. Being able to manage the product life cycle efficiently and timely requires development and employing of digital manufacturing strategy on all phases of the product life cycle. The DIGIMAN project brings together 9 different disciplines including chemistry, material science, product development, manufacturing, business and administration, energy production, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), product development and robotics. These are joined and viewed through the digital manufacturing, where each discipline is considered in terms of digital models and tools not only solving discipline specific problems, but integrating those digital models and tools for supporting creation of holistic value chains. Thus, a user in such value chain can have access to multidisciplinary knowledge. The project created a course consisting of 9 modules, to introduce these 9 disciplines.

Bilateral cooperation results

TalTech Virumaa College handled the main bulk of administrative & project management side, e.g. the structure and the form quality of the course and module topics. The role of NTNU was to guide the content vision and assure the quality of the content of the modules. ProfMOF had the role of bringing in practical knowledge and user cases on the digitalization of chemistry. Since chemistry topic was the most important topic for Virumaa College, the information from ProfMOF was of great value. ProfMOF provided both the software knowledge, some practical background knowledge and exercises for the chemistry module. The impact of the project accounts in several areas: - Possibility for various stakeholders (participating organizations, students, private companies) to benefit from the course and/or it’s separate modules: either by teaching or learning in a immersive, practical way across the entire “student journey”. - Creation (and discovery for some participants) of new way; a potential new standard of generating course guides. Resulting in more immersive course introduction and walkthrough (aka guide through). Thus resulting in more clear understanding of the course, its content and expectations for both the students and the teachers. - Discovery of new disciplines, materials and knowledge for participants and organizations - Cross-disciplinary skill improvement for project team and participants - International experience and contacts for participants and organisations (project team) - Practice of English language and international communications for participants (project team included) The project cooperation will continue likely. The main visionary of the course wishes to leave open the possibility to develop the course or its modules further, or to add another module to it. For that, we have created the concept of “the keepers of DIGIMAN”. Those are people, who take care of the project efforts after the official project period has ended.

Project partners

Norwegian University of Science and Technology Donor project partner· Norway
ProfMOF AS Donor project partner· Norway

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