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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2018

A Fog Computing Based Cyber-Physical System for the Automation of Pipe-Related Tasks in the Industry 4.0 Shipyard.

Tiago M Fernández-Caramés, Paula Fraga-Lamas, Manuel Suárez-Albela, Manuel A Díaz-Bouza

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Tiago M Fernández-CaramésUnidade Mixta de Investigación Navantia-UDC, Universidade da Coruña, Edificio Talleres Tecnológicos, Mendizábal s/n, 15403 Ferrol, Spain. tiago.fernandez@udc.es.ORCID 0000-0003-2179-5917
Paula Fraga-LamasUnidade Mixta de Investigación Navantia-UDC, Universidade da Coruña, Edificio Talleres Tecnológicos, Mendizábal s/n, 15403 Ferrol, Spain. paula.fraga@udc.es.ORCID 0000-0002-4991-6808
Manuel Suárez-AlbelaUnidade Mixta de Investigación Navantia-UDC, Universidade da Coruña, Edificio Talleres Tecnológicos, Mendizábal s/n, 15403 Ferrol, Spain. m.albela@udc.es.ORCID 0000-0001-9891-4553
Manuel A Díaz-BouzaNavantia S. A., Astillero Ría de Ferrol, Taxonera, s/n, 15403 Ferrol, Spain. mdiaz@navantia.es.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pipes are one of the key elements in the construction of ships, which usually contain between 15,000 and 40,000 of them. This huge number, as well as the variety of processes that may be performed on a pipe, require rigorous identification, quality assessment and traceability. Traditionally, such tasks have been carried out by using manual procedures and following documentation on paper, which slows down the production processes and reduces the output of a pipe workshop. This article presents a system that allows for identifying and tracking the pipes of a ship through their construction cycle. For such a purpose, a fog computing architecture is proposed to extend cloud computing to the edge of the shipyard network. The system has been developed jointly by Navantia, one of the largest shipbuilders in the world, and the University of A Coruña (Spain), through a project that makes use of some of the latest Industry 4.0 technologies. Specifically, a Cyber-Physical System (CPS) is described, which uses active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags to track pipes and detect relevant events. Furthermore, the CPS has been integrated and tested in conjunction with Siemens’ Manufacturing Execution System (MES) (Simatic IT). The experiments performed on the CPS show that, in the selected real-world scenarios, fog gateways respond faster than the tested cloud server, being such gateways are also able to process successfully more samples under high-load situations. In addition, under regular loads, fog gateways react between five and 481 times faster than the alternative cloud approach.

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cyber-physical systemfog computingidentificationIIoTIndustry 4.0IoTlocalizationRFIDShipyardsupply chain managementtracking

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PMID29914207
PMCPMC6021812

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