Public documentation about the Demo-Smart-Factory at Concordia University.
This demo factory is part of the Gina Cody School research center for Advanced Manufacturing and is operated by the Electrochemical Green Engineering Group
Various manufacturing technologies are assembled in this demo factory. Data exchange is taking place using a publish-subscribe paradigm and is implemented with an Apache Kafka server.
Data collection uses the MTConnect standard to represent manufacturing data.
- Streaming MTConnect data to Kafka is performed using the python-mtc2kafka library.
- MTConnect agents are implemented using the MTConnect C++ Agent
- MTConnect adapters are implemented using the GECO library
All the infrastructure follows the principle of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Deployment is done using docker and docker-compose on various virtual machines. Docker swarm is used as orchestrator.
Members of the project have access through our dedicated JupyterHub server.