Industry 4.0 Edge Computing Demonstration Projects for Manufacturing Technology Education

Marilyn Barger; Richard Gilbert

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Conference: 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Location: Baltimore , Maryland
Publication Date: June 25, 2023
Start Date: June 25, 2023
End Date: June 28, 2023
Conference Session: Engineering Technology Division (ETD) Technical Session 4
Tagged Division: Engineering Technology Division (ETD)
Page Count: 7
DOI: 10.18260/1-2--43685
Permanent URL: https://peer.asee.org/43685
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Marilyn Barger P.E. FLATE (Florida Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence)

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Dr. Marilyn Barger is the Senior Educational Advisor of FLATE, the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center, part of the FloridaMakes Network. FloridaMakes is the NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) Center in Florida, but previously FLATE was founded and funded by the National Science Foundations Advanced Technological Education (NSF-ATE) as a Regional Center of Excellence. FLATE’s mission is to support manufacturing education in K-14 programs through outreach, professional development, curriculum reform and technician research. She earned a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering/Environmental from the University of South Florida and served on the Engineering faculty at Hofstra University and the FSU-FAMU College of Engineering. Dr. Barger has authored over 50 papers for presentations on engineering and technology education, serves on several national advisory boards for CTE and workforce education initiatives and is a Fellow of American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Dr. Barger holds a licensed patent and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Florida.

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Richard Gilbert University of South Florida

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Richard Gilbert is a Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of South Florida's College of Engineering . Richard is the Co-PI for the grant that supports the NSF designated Center of Excellence for Advanced Technological Educat

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Abstract

Advanced Manufacturing International (AMI), a non-profit that provides professional development for small through medium manufacturers, partnered with LECS Energy Inc. to develop the Learning Integrated Manufacturing System (LIMS) as an Industry 4.0 applicable Industry Internet of Things (IIot) edge platform. The LIMS appliance provides an affordable easy connection to manufacturing processing systems and subsystems to facilitate the maximum use of Industry 4.0-driven technologies installed in a manufacturing facility. The LIMS accomplishes this assignment by incorporating its complete rules engine, over 50 Input/Output Interfaces, as well as analytics and statistics engines for the turn-key subsystem and system applications that can be implemented in a small or medium manufacturing environment that may not include in-house edge-computing experienced IT support personnel. The LIMS platform also provides tested control examples and system applications that promote quick adoption and adaptation for real-world industry implementations.

This targeted manufacturing market and cost also make the LIMS platform an excellent learning tool within two-year and four-year Engineering Technology programs focused on creating the future of work technical workforce to support the I 4.0 technology environment. An initiative instigated by the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence (FLATE) with support from America Works, (an initiative of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) national network, FloridaMakes, (the NIST MEP Center in Florida), and the National Science Foundation (NSF), has been launched to demonstrate the LIMS’s learning tool’s Project Based Learning potential. A LIMS platform was distributed to each of the five state colleges with 2-year Engineering Technology programs in Florida. This paper reports on the results of the Informed Engineering Design approach the colleges utilized to build their unique “hands-on” applications. The paper’s focus is directed on the challenges and results from an urban and a rural college. It will also report on student learning outcomes related to (IIOT) as well as project opportunities to easily capture data from different independent sources and perform a variety of analyses on the data outputs relating to seemingly unconnected/unrelated data sources in a single process analysis.

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Barger, M., & Gilbert, R. (2023, June), Industry 4.0 Edge Computing Demonstration Projects for Manufacturing Technology Education Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--43685

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AB  - Advanced Manufacturing International (AMI), a non-profit that provides professional development for small through medium manufacturers, partnered with LECS Energy Inc. to develop the Learning Integrated Manufacturing System (LIMS) as an Industry 4.0 applicable Industry Internet of Things (IIot) edge platform.  The LIMS appliance provides an affordable easy connection to manufacturing processing systems and subsystems to facilitate the maximum use of Industry 4.0-driven technologies installed in a manufacturing facility. The LIMS accomplishes this assignment by incorporating its complete rules engine, over 50 Input/Output Interfaces, as well as analytics and statistics engines for the turn-key subsystem and system applications that can be implemented in a small or medium manufacturing environment that may not include in-house edge-computing experienced IT support personnel. The LIMS platform also provides tested control examples and system applications that promote quick adoption and adaptation for real-world industry implementations.

This targeted manufacturing market and cost also make the LIMS platform an excellent learning tool within two-year and four-year Engineering Technology programs focused on creating the future of work technical workforce to support the I 4.0 technology environment.   An initiative instigated by the Florida Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence (FLATE) with support from America Works, (an initiative of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) national network, FloridaMakes, (the NIST MEP Center in Florida), and the National Science Foundation (NSF), has been launched to demonstrate the LIMS’s learning tool’s Project Based Learning potential.  A LIMS platform was distributed to each of the five state colleges with 2-year Engineering Technology programs in Florida. This paper reports on the results of the Informed Engineering Design approach the colleges utilized to build their unique “hands-on” applications.  The paper’s focus is directed on the challenges and results from an urban and a rural college.  It will also report on student learning outcomes related to (IIOT) as well as project opportunities to easily capture data from different independent sources and perform a variety of analyses on the data outputs relating to seemingly unconnected/unrelated data sources in a single process analysis. 


AU  - Marilyn Barger P.E.
AU  - Richard Gilbert
CY  - Baltimore , Maryland
DA  - 2023/06/25
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Industry 4.0 Edge Computing Demonstration Projects for Manufacturing Technology Education
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DO  - 10.18260/1-2--43685
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