SIMPLE - Smart InforMation PLatform and Ecosystem for Manufacturing

最终用户在不同生产系统中简单、一致和可靠地集成关键信息的能力目前是工业生产率提高的主要障碍。部署有效的数字化能力的一个根本挑战是制造组织的运营技术（OT）和信息技术（IT）层内部和之间的系统集成。这种整合目前受到缺乏可识别的框架，设计方法和工程工具（技术多样性和分散性）或与采用专有和单一商业解决方案相关的成本，复杂性和长期战略锁定的阻碍。SIMPLE项目采用创新的软件技术来解决这一需求，证明了由此产生的解决方案，在一个实际的和广泛适用的工业形式。80%的商业价值通常驻留在20%的数据，可以从该财团的最终用户的生产系统收集。SIMPLE平台将通过促进核心数据集的收集，更好地监控和优化其制造业务。SIMPLE解决方案还将提供一个开放和可扩展的平台，以刺激以数据为中心的应用生态系统的部署，促进英国制造业组织更广泛的数字化能力的发展。SIMPLE平台将特别有利于制造业中小企业，因为它们缺乏有效利用当前分散的技术格局的技能，或者缺乏投资大型集成工程解决方案的技能。SIMPLE平台将专注于提供强大和可扩展的数据模型，并在整个生产系统生命周期以及工程和生产管理的所有领域加强这些模型的使用。该平台将实现为软件组件、Web服务和设计框架的组合（建议、规则和指导方针）以及软件和硬件技术的技术部署路线图。SIMPLE项目联盟中的组织混合保证了实现解决方案的快速部署和验证的强烈激励（在项目最终用户生产环境中），并参与并实现SIMPLE产品在其他工业领域的商业化，特别是农业技术和建筑领域，其中已经发现了商业机会。

The ability of end users to simply, consistently and reliably integrate key information across diverse production systems is currently a major barrier to productivity gains in industry. A fundamental challenge in deploying effective digital capabilities is the integration of systems within and across the operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) layers of manufacturing organisations. This integration is currently hindered by either a lack of identifiable frameworks, design methods and engineering tools (technology diversity and fragmentation) or by the cost, complexity and long term strategic lock-in associated with the adoption of proprietary and monolithic commercial solutions. The SIMPLE project applies innovative software technology to address this need, proving the resultant solution in a practical and widely applicable industrial form.80% of the business value typically resides in 20% of the data that can be collected from the consortium's end users' production systems. The SIMPLE platform will allow better monitoring and optimisation of their manufacturing operations by facilitating the collection of this core data set. The SIMPLE solution will also provide an open and scalable platform to stimulate the deployment of data centric application ecosystems, facilitating the development of wider digital capabilities in UK manufacturing organisations. The SIMPLE platform will benefit manufacturing SMEs in particular, as they lack either the skills to effectively take advantage of the currently fragmented technological landscape, or to invest in large integrated engineering solutions.The SIMPLE platform will focus on providing robust and scalable data models and reinforce the use of those models throughout the production system lifecycle and across all domains of engineering and production management. The platform will materialise as a combination of software components, web services, a design framework (recommendations, rules and guidelines) as well as a technology deployment road map for software and hardware technologies.The blend of organisations in the SIMPLE project's consortium guarantees that there will be a very strong incentive to achieve rapid deployment and validation of the solution (in the project end-user production environment), and to engage with and achieve commercialisation of the SIMPLE product across other domains of industry, agritech and construction in particular, in which commercial opportunities have already been identified.