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FORSTERK-Forsterkningsmidler

Supplementary funding for COGNITWIN project - Impact from Hybrid Twins for the Norwegian Process Industry

Awarded: NOK 0.99 mill.

The COGNITWIN project is funded by the European Union?s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 870130. The main aim of the project is to develop a fully digitalized concept of self?learning and a proactive next generation of Digital Twins such as Hybrid Twins and Cognitive Twins for process industries, which can: * Recognize, forecast, and communicate less optimal process behaviour well before these occur and * Self-adjust to keep the process continuously close to or at optimum. The COGNITWIN Forsterk project focuses on disseminating results from the EU project to Norwegian stakeholders. Among other events this has been done in popular scientific articles and on social media: 1. Digitalisering gir bedre produksjonsprosess hos Elkem Bremanger, Eirik Iveland, TEKNOLOGI nr.1, 2022. Link. 2. Hybrid tvilling skal bidra til å redusere begroing på konvektive varmevekslere, Eirik Iveland, AMNYTT nr.7, 2021. Link. 3. COGNITWIN webside med bl.a populærvitenskapelige presentasjoner (video), link. 4. LinkedIn presentasjon, link.

This supplementary project ('EU FORSTERK') has aimed to increase awareness of EU funded projects among Norwegian industries. For Forsterk COGNITWIN the target group has been process and processing industry where cognitive hybrid digital twins is expected to catalyse process sustainability and competitiveness. The project has carried out several public events (4), webinars (25), workshops (2), with the attendance of in average 60 persons in each event. Participants have given great feed-back on how the events and presented technology can help own project with the development of their processes towards a climate neutral future. During the project period, 2 EU proposals were submitted to the HEU programs in 2021; one application (COGNIMAN, 110 MNOK) was approved by the EU commission. Furthermore a EVU competence project on digitalisation has been started with participants from Jotun, Eramet, Elkem, Boliden and Hydro. An IPN (TappingMat/Momek) has been funded to continue the Elkem pilot in COGNITWIN.

While the concept of digitalisation and Industry 4.0 is making rapid inroads into the European manufacturing sector, there are several aspects that can still be incorporated and strengthen competitiveness and sustainability of Industrial process operations. One such aspect to the digitalisation vision is the "cognitive element", where the process plants can learn from historical data and adapt to changes in the process while also being able to predict unwanted events in the operation before they happen. Through this project, COGNITWIN (Cognitive digital Twin), we aim to add the cognitive element to the existing process control systems and thus enabling their capability to self-organise and offer solutions to unpredicted behaviours. Sgnificant tools for such cognitive behaviour are : 1) quality data from apppropriate sensors to provide correct information of process state (rawmaterial, Intermediates and Product qualities) 2) Digital twin, i.e. physical and data-driven models connected to smart graphical user interfaces 3) ML and AI algoritms that interact with the digital twins and act as decision support for the operators These three tools will, step by step, be developed against the ultimate competitive and sustainable autonomous and predictive operation of industrial processes.

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FORSTERK-Forsterkningsmidler

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