I-Corps: A Platform for Matching Manufacturing Service Companies with Design Enterprises

I-Corps：制造服务企业与设计企业的对接平台

• 批准号: 1700721
• 负责人: Binil Starly
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-12-01 至 2018-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1700721&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Platform; Matching; Manufacturing; Service

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is to efficiently match, using intelligent multi-agent software, original equipment designers to manufacturers who have the necessary capabilities to fulfill those needed services. On one side, the solution directly empowers small and medium scale manufacturers to advertise unused machine capacity that can be rented out to clients who require small lot production of components. The platform may also provide them the ability to focus their business development efforts to obtaining short term and long term contracts through the broker system. On the other end of the solution, the platform directly impacts system integrators by providing them with a near real-time state of suppliers' performance and technical metrics. The solution architecture also allows enterprise customers to update their supplier databases in near real-time states without manual recurrent processing of supply chain information. The solution intends to make supplier sourcing, vetting and selection to be more efficient. Ultimately, the system intends to cut the time between product conception to production and delivery.This I-Corps project is based on the functions and operations of a manufacturing service selection platform. Real-time streaming data from machines on a factory floor populates a virtual digital twin representation of the physical machine and its corresponding factory model in cyberspace. Utilizing a multi-agent simulation software algorithm, we match design and manufacturing features of a given product to manufacturers who have the capacity and capabilities to meet those requirements. The results of the simulation provide an intelligent decision making tool for original equipment designers to source suppliers who are best suited to meet both business and technical requirements. This digital connectivity of machine assets across job/contract shop factories provides unprecedented visibility into machine capabilities and capacities within the supply chain for real-time decision making in supplier sourcing and selection.

I-Corps项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是，使用智能多代理软件，将原始设备设计师与具有必要能力的制造商进行有效匹配，以满足所需的服务。一方面，该解决方案直接授权中小型制造商宣传未使用的机器产能，这些产能可以出租给需要小批量生产组件的客户。该平台还可以为他们提供通过代理系统将业务开发工作重点放在获得短期和长期合同上的能力。在解决方案的另一端，该平台通过向系统集成商提供供应商性能和技术指标的近乎实时状态，直接影响系统集成商。该解决方案架构还允许企业客户以接近实时的状态更新其供应商数据库，而无需手动反复处理供应链信息。该解决方案旨在使供应商的采购、审查和选择更加有效。最终，该系统旨在缩短从产品概念到生产和交付之间的时间。本I-Corps项目基于制造服务选择平台的功能和操作。来自工厂车间机器的实时流数据在网络空间中填充了物理机器及其相应工厂模型的虚拟数字孪生表示。利用多智能体仿真软件算法，我们将给定产品的设计和制造特征与具有满足这些要求的能力和能力的制造商进行匹配。仿真结果为原始设备设计人员寻找最适合满足业务和技术要求的供应商提供了智能决策工具。这种跨作业/合同车间工厂的机器资产的数字连接为供应链中的机器功能和能力提供了前所未有的可见性，从而可以在供应商采购和选择中进行实时决策。