More than 4.000 exhibitors, over 1.900 trade show premieres, almost 70.000 on-site attendees from around the whole world, including famous politicians such as the chancellor of Germany or Indonesian president, caused that the spirit of excitement and optimism permeate the halls at HANNOVER MESSE.

One of the biggest topics of HANNOVER MESSE 2023 were among others Industry 4.0, Smart Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Energy Management, and CO2 neutral production. Therefore, the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) was keen to present the PHYSICS H2020 Project, and smart manufacturing use cases:

1. Deployment of substitute service in the Cloud
2. High Confidence Quality Control

See use cases description Blogpost: Industrial Use Cases of FaaS: The basics you need to know

Since the presentation was carried out at SmartFactory-KL booth which was visited by an estimated 4.000 visitors within 5 days of the fair, it was the great opportunity to introduce the project to a wide audience interested in innovation solutions for production and show that smart manufacturing sector can significantly benefit from the use of the Function as a Service (FaaS) paradigm. Moreover, the DFKI showed the advantage of using the PHYSICS platform, which can offer a manufacturer-independent solution for the FaaS and thus simplify the development and scalability of the plant in the future. In addition to the live presentation, the PHYSICS logo was displayed throughout the fair at the SmartFactory-KL stand and passively promoted the project.

Although the first FaaS services were already implemented a couple years ago, a topic that aroused particular interest was the use of computer power on-demand and its potential to reduce running and maintenance costs of a factory. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that thanks to PHYSICS platform, which can offer redundancy of services provided by physical modules, it is possible to decrease the unplanned downtimes, and increase the reliability and stability of the production line. Overall, the concept of the PHYSICS platform using FaaS paradigm was received with interest by both industrial and research visitors.

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PHYSICS project has just terminated its first Impact Intensification period, in which efforts were further pursued to increase the external involvement in the project activities. This doesn’t mean that the project remains idle in other periods; but in September specifically, partners collectively reach out to stakeholders to build an online connected community, leveraging expertise in social media strategy and existing partner networks. In order to boost this first round, three hackathons have been scheduled, with a pool of selected participants to test the Physics platform and give feedbacks.

The first hackathon will take place from the 23 until the 25 of November. The first day will be a small session to launch the activity and assign mentors. Participants are mostly students, which have a general overview about the scope and tasks to be developed, as well as links to all the necessary information

There will be two challenges: one called Runtime Challenge, which main objective is to provide ideas about how to orchestrate workflows during runtime. The other it’s the Security Challenge, where a group of Cybersecurity experts will evaluate platform vulnerabilities and provide easy ways to solve them. The rest of the time, participants will interact with their assigned mentors off-line. Once the deadline expires, they will provide the code and a small pitch introducing their solution.

Then, jury will evaluate all proposals: each of the members of the jury will assign points for each of the evaluation criteria to pick the winner.

This first experience will be followed by two more sessions in early 2023.

But that’s not all is cooking for PHYSICS; the consortium has organized a clustering webinar with CHARITY project, which will take place on the 29th of November, to introduce and demonstrate the design environment.

A workshop about the three-project pilots is scheduled for early 2023, to present and share more hands-on results. As of October 2022, we are proud of the obtained results, with PHYSICS Reusable Artefact Marketplace up and running, 26 registered users and 15 artefacts already integrated.

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