Welcome to theFITMAN Specific Enabler Webinar on

Collaborative Asset Management16th June 2015

Mauro Isaja mauro.isaja@eng.it

Introduction

• The FITMAN Collaborative Asset Management SE (FITMAN-CAM) is a web-based, integrated platform for managing Tangible / Intangible Assets in service-oriented Manufacturing Ecosystems

• Targeted at Digital and Virtual Factories

• Based on open standards (OWL2, LinkedUSDL)

• Delivered as a web portal

• Supports platform federation

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Benefits [1/3]

• The term “asset” represents any item of economic value owned by an Enterprise.

• Assets are basically divided into two broad categories: resources and capabilities.– Resources are tangible items, like machinery,

hardware, transportation vehicles, buildings, people (employees), etc.

– Capabilities are of a more intangible nature: corporate knowledge (e.g., definitions of business or technical processes), individual competences, business relationships, etc.

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Benefits [2/3]

• Both Tangible and Intangible Assets are used to achieve the goals of the Enterprise.

• In a Virtual Factory scenario, Assets are leveraged in a collaborative way to realize the common objectives: they are exposed and traded as Services within the Ecosystem.

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Benefits [3/3]

• FITMAN-CAM is a dedicated platform for the collaborative management of Asset-as-a-Service (AaaS) entities in the Virtual Factory.

• It is targeted to the business user, who is not required to have IT expertise, nor an in-depth knowledge of ontology-related concepts and tools

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Feature highlights [1/3]

• Define a reference Ontology using OWL2 constructs: classes, individuals, properties

• Describe Tangible and Intangible Assets by means of the reference Ontology

• Store T/I Asset descriptions in an online repository as virtualized Assets

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Feature highlights [2/3]

• Create Assets as a Service (AaaS) items by linking a virtualized Asset to a service offering (i.e., availability, pricing, terms & conditions), as defined by Universal Service Description Language (LinkedUSDL) descriptor

• Create complex AaaS bundles by composition of simple ones

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Feature highlights [3/3]

• Publish AaaS offerings to an Service Store, which is part of a larger Service Marketplace spanning the entire Manufacturing Ecosystem

• Search for AaaS offerings in the local Service Marketplace of your Manufacturing Ecosystem, and in the external Marketplaces belonging to federated Ecosystems

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Technology highlights [1/3]

• Entirely web-based: no software to be installed locally by users

• A single FITMAN-CAM instance may support very large, distributed, decentralized organizations: multiple corporate user credentials databases (e.g., LDAP, Active Directory) integrate seamlessly with authentication and profiling subsystem

• Multiple FITMAN-CAM instances can be federated to create an Ecosystem cluster

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Technology highlights [2/3]

• Low-level features based on standard open source components: Liferay Portal, Sesame, MySQL

• Leverages open source FI-WARE Generic Enablers: Marketplace and Repository reference implementations by SAP

• Core functionality and integration developed ad-hoc by Engineering SpA: Ontology Manager, Asset Manager, Service Manager

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Technology highlights [3/3]

• Exposes several layers of APIs for integration with external applications: low-level for querying Ontology and T/I Assets (SPARQL), mid-level for interacting with AaaS, high-level for interfacing the Marketplace

• Runs on any Java-enabled system

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Architectural overview

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• As a Virtual Machine image– KVM version: deploy on any 64bit Linux system -

ftp://repo.nimbus-ware.com/fitman-cam-qcow2.zip

– VirtualBox version: deploy on any Linux, Windows, MacOS system - ftp://repo.nimbus-ware.com/fitman-cam-vdi.zip

• As source code– SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/p/fitman-

fi/code/ci/master/tree/SE/ENG/FITMAN-CAM/

• As a service (SaaS) – Single, shared instance as an experimentation

playground (coming soon)

Terms and conditions

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• Within the scope of the FI-PPP Programme

– Free use of the software for members till the end of the Programme

– FITMAN provides free support to members till the end of the Programme

• Out of FI-PPP Programme scope

– All software assets are free and Open Source (Apache 2.0 license applies globally)

FITMAN-CAM Demo

Q & A

Mauro Isaja mauro.isaja@eng.it

Thank you!

Mauro Isaja mauro.isaja@eng.it