Discover Quebec’s very first off-site, open-air manufacturing testbed: The Intelligent Cyber Value Chain Network

Mission

Address the urgent need of Canadian industry to develop knowledge and research infrastructure, to implement and test advanced manufacturing and business processes to support the digital transformation from traditional methods to smart, connected and sustainable manufacturing.

Provide researchers, particularly in the area of smart, connected, and secure manufacturing and processing, with access to state-of-the-art equipment as well as technical expertise to contribute to the advancement of knowledge and training of highly qualified personnel.

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Institutional members

École de technologie supérieure

Associated laboratories

Polytechnique Montréal

Associated laboratory

Université Laval

Associated laboratory

Université Concordia

Associated laboratory

Université de Sherbrooke

Université du Québec à Montréal

Associated laboratory

Productique Québec

JACOBB

Vision

The strategic vision behind the creation of Céosnet aims for a constellation of intelligent design-prototyping-manufacturing-warehousing Nodes that enable the offshoring/relocation of activities related to Cloud Manufacturing.

This testbed aims to address major gaps in order to promote a distributed digital manufacturing logistics (based on cutting-edge distributed cloud computing — "Hub/Nodes/Edge") and will thus transfer the developed expertise to industry through a technology showcase approach using a "Living Lab" model.

Objectives

Stimulate research and development in the Network's Domain (smart, connected, sustainable, and secure manufacturing and processing) and promote recent and emerging analytical methods to research groups in Quebec and Canada.

Provide and make accessible the tools for sustainable offshoring production necessary for scientific and technological progress in the academic and industrial sectors concerned in Quebec and Canada.

Ensure the training of highly qualified personnel in industrial digital transformation.

Enable and encourage the development of new techniques and methods associated with advanced industrial digital transformation, and to create/animate a community of Users.

Research Program

01

Intelligent product and manufacturing process design

  • Mass customization manufacturing products
  • Self-learning advanced manufacturing
  • Disassembly & product (material) tracking for circular manufacturing

02

Intelligent , agile and adaptive value chain operations planning

  • Real-time and dynamic maintenance and operations planning
  • Collaborative human-robot ecosystem  configuration
  • Human shared reality and user experience optimization
  • Complex value chain network design an planning

03

Data exchange and processing platform design

  • Ultra-low latency communications and network slicing for federated production centers
  • Emergent intelligence for federated cloud
  • Computational efficiency for real time massive data processing
  • Security and interoperability of the communication network

Recent projects

2023-2026 · 500K - 1M $
Intelligent Predictive Maintenance 4.0 for Heavy-Duty Electrical Bus
Soumaya Yacout, Mohamed Cheriet
NSERC, InnovÉÉ, Mitacs, Solutions Serafin
Smart Electrical Transportation
2021-2026 · Moins de 500K $
Enhanced Awareness for Mobile Robots in Manufacturing Assembly
David St-Onge, Lionel Birglen
NSERC, Mitacs
Collaborative Mobile Robots
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