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OntoTrans Semantic Materials Workshop

With the technical work in the H2020 OntoTrans project concluded, most of the efforts are now focused on the exploitation activities. OntoTrans partners held the Semantic Materials workshop at Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining in London (UK) on the 17th of April 2024.

Several delegates from large and small Industries, Academia, Software vendors and researchers discussed the latest advancement, challenges and opportunities, as well as tools and methodologies in the field of semantic materials, with a special emphasis on enabling data interoperability.

It is encouraging to see the advances in the field as well as the expression of interest from such a wide spectrum of the stakeholders at this invitation-only event.

At CMCL, we are also excited to collaborate with all the partners and stakeholders towards realisation of the objectives set out in the meeting.

OntoTrans Month 48

OntoTrans, a EU Horizon 2020 project is reaching its final concluding months, where years of intense work comes to fruition. Month 48 consortium meeting of the project was held on 19-20 March 2024 in Freiburg, Germany, to mark this milestone, and to discuss the status of the technical development in the project along with the execution of industrial challenges (Apps) in the project, and to lay out plans for the exploitation activities in the remaining time of the project.

As a part of the event, CMCL presented the progress on the Steel Section Mill user case in collaboration with ArcelorMittal to realise key objectives namely time-to-market, digitalisation and decarbonisation via introduction of its advanced digital workflow to gain more insight into the relationship between mechanical properties of steel beams and the underlying process parameters. Through a live demo, the integration between the execution of the user case and the OntoTrans Open Translation Environment was demonstrated. Further updates regarding the tools developed to enable semantic interoperability in this user case were also presented. Such demonstrations help showcase the benefits of the OntoTrans platform for the end users and provide an example of how the proposed approach in Industrial Translation can help tackle real-world industrial challenges.

It’s great to be part of the OntoTrans team, and see the progression of the system Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) as a result of the collaboration.

Connected Places Summit 2024

Toby Greenwood represented CMCL at the Connected Places Summit 2024, run by Connected Places Catapult. It was fantastic to see so many familiar faces, and equally exciting to make new connections.

A diverse range of industries were present, and plenty of cross-sector discussions were had! These reaffirmed the value of The World Avatar‘s interoperable and agnostic approach.

The CReDo project was well represented, where the direction of the project and exciting upcoming developments were showcased.

A huge thank you to the events/comms team at CPC for continuing to organise and deliver top quality events. They continue to be invaluable spaces to network and connect.

European R&I Days 2024

As a part of the Research and Innovation Week, the 2024 edition of the European Research and Innovation Days was held on 20-21 March 2024 at Tour and Taxis in Brussels. The flagship event gathered researchers, policymakers, industrial representatives and the general public to discuss the status of the Research and Innovation in the continent.

We are happy to have had the opportunity to join delegates and stakeholders from across Europe, to discuss our contributions to the Research and Innovation through our engagement in the Collaborative research initiatives.

In particular, our collaborative research efforts in digitalisation and decarbonisation fields, including the coordination of the actvities in the Digital Open Marketplace Ecosystem (DOME) 4.0 and providing the technical knowledge graph based framework for the Climate Resilience Demonstrator CReDo project were discussed with the delegates, emphasising on the importance of the data FAIRness (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability) and sharing, as well as the climate resilience in a greener, fairer and more competitive Europe.

At CMCL, we are keen to collaborate towards accelerating Research and Innovation to help build a greener, fairer, and more competitive future. Engage with us to know more about CMCL’s digitalisation and decarbonisation solutions to realise such a future.

Digital Twins Cities Conference

We are pleased to announce that our CEO, Dr Amit Bhave, will be attending the Digital Twins Cities Conference in Gothenburg on the 28th November and delivering a Keynote Speech: Connecting digital twins for a shared understanding, Powered by The World Avatar™:

‘In the world of digital twins, overcoming data silos, cross-domain accountability, and interoperability hurdles is crucial. Amit will dive into these challenges and unveil the latest developments and use cases in enabling semantic interoperability across sectors, powered by The World Avatar™ approach’.

National Grid ESO Markets Forum

It was great to have attended the National Grid ESO Markets Forum event on the 8th November. Seeing the progress that has been made, and the ambitious targets for the energy system in the years to come really highlighted the need for innovation and transformation across the industry.

CMCL believe that the transformative power of data is unlocked through cross-sector interoperability and collaboration, and we are following the development of a Future Systems Operator (FSO) with great interest.

DOME 4.0 at SemIIM 2023

The Digital Open Marketplace Ecosystem (DOME 4.0) project supported by EU Horizon 2020 will be represented at the Second International Workshop on Semantic Industrial Information Modelling (SemIIM) 2023 conference on 7 November 2023, held as a co-located hybrid event with the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2023, 6-10 November 2023) in Athens, Greece.

Dr Amit Bhave, CMCL’s CEO and co-founder, in his role as the coordinator of the DOME 4.0 project will present “On Standardised Ontologies and Data Marketplaces”, sharing the latest state of the development in the project, alignment in standardisation, documentation and ontologies with the Industry Commons sister project OntoCommons, as well as updates in the industrial business-to-business showcases within the project.

Additionally, he will also present “Evaluation of CMCL’s Ontologies for Maritime Air Quality”, covering a deeper dive into the application ontologies deployed by CMCL to enable semantic interoperability for a cross-domain use case covering chemistry, ships, pollutants, weather, etc., powered by our flagship technology “The World Avatar™” (TWA).

These talks form part of a dedicated session on “Ontology Standardisation Meets Data Marketplaces” and showcase the alignment between the two sister projects OntoCommons and DOME 4.0 towards enabling interoperability and data sharing, while also covering the synergies between pan-European initiatives enabling industrial data sharing and CMCL’s in-house technology offerings.

Read more about the event here.

Highways UK 2023

Toby Greenwood and Oisín Peppard represented CMCL at Highways UK 2023, networking and exploring innovations across the industry. Oisín has been leading CMCL’s work exploring the connections between the transport sector and others, as part of a Transport Research and Innovation project run by Connected Places Catapult and the Department for Transport.

CReDo, the collaborative Climate Resilience Demonstrator project was mentioned during an interesting session – ‘Accelerating change: Leveraging tech and innovation for the roads of the future’ when Dr Wolfgang Schuster and Mark Enzer highlighted the project as a leading example of a cross-sectoral approach.

The sessions and the ensuing discussions on the benefits of enabling interoperability resonated with our semantic digitalisation approach for assisting challenge owners.

DOME 4.0 Second Hackathon

On 10-12 October 2023, the second public Industrial Engagement Open Day and Hackathon of the Digital Open Marketplace Ecosystem (DOME) 4.0 project was held at Simcenter premises in Leuven, BE.

Invited speakers from large and small industries across Europe presented their views, success stories and pain points on how to enable data interoperability and data sharing at the Industrial Engagement Open Day event, which concluded with lively discussions over a panel Q&A.

The second hackathon’s theme was “onboarding”, in which the latest state of the DOME 4.0 platform along with technical advancements on enabling onboarding of data providers, data consumers and data service providers to the platform were presented to the participants via presentations and interactive sessions covering nine B2B showcases in the project. Two fully dedicated hack sessions were also included in the agenda, in which the participants were provided hands-on experience of developing platform connectors. This event particularly enjoyed participation from graduate students in material science and engineering, and we hope to have contributed to the training of next generation of scientists and engineers in the field.

As a special part of the Hackathon, the innovation Centre in Digital Molecular Technologies (iDMT) was also onboarded to the DOME 4.0 platform as its first external participant during one of the hands-on hack sessions.

This event and onboarding experience of the first external participant to the platform marked a milestone in the project, showcasing the progress of the research platform. We are excited to see such developments and look forward to continue working with the partners to make the project a success.

Massive thanks, firstly to our partner the Siemens Digital Industries Software for smooth organisation and hosting the event, to all partners and invited speakers for their insights and to all participants of the event for their contributions. We are already looking forward to meeting all of you in the third (and the final) hackathon supported by the project in 2024.

Joint Collaborative Events in Horizon 2020 Projects

The Horizon 2020 projects OntoTrans and OpenModel have organised a jam-packed event, 5-7 September 2023 in Bremen, Germany. The event comprises the Month 30 General Assembly in OpenModel project, Month 42 General Assembly in OntoTrans project along with the OntoTrans second open workshop.

Seán Courtney, CMCL’s computational Scientist, will contribute providing updates on our activities in platform development, ontologies and interfaces as well as our contributions as the industrial translator for the Steel Section Mill user case in collaboration with ArcelorMittal to realise key objectives namely time-to-market, digitalisation and decarbonisation via introduction of advanced digital solutions. Such solutions are aimed at offering deeper insight into the relation between mechanical properties of steel beams and the underlying process parameters.

The General Assemblies are confidential to the partners only, but further update to the public will be available through the OntoTrans Second Open Workshop (held on 7th September), in which we will also cover aspects of how OntoTrans platform helps each of the industrial end users in their materials and manufacturing challenges.

For the OpenModel project, we also cover our contributions to development of the platform, data and modelling wrappers, Multi-Criteria Optimisation and Multi-Criteria Decision-Making tools along with an end-to-end digital workflow user case focusing on catalyst material testing and screening.

We look forward to contributing to these events, and particularly the discussions with the general public at the OntoTrans Open Workshop. Read more about the project here.

CMCL at the Launch of the UK-India Net Zero Accelerator Programme

The UK-India Net Zero Accelerator Programme was launched on 03 Aug. 2023 by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)-Indian Green Building Council (IGBC), British High Commission in India, the Department for Business & Trade and Innovate UK Edge. In addition to these senior stakeholders, leaders from the Indian building sector shared their expert views and work on net zero. CMCL introduced its key mission on enabling cross-sector (buildings, environment, climate change, utilities, transportation, etc.) interoperability to better support decision making for net zero strategy and implementation. We are pleased to be part of a final cohort of 18 innovative UK companies selected for this programme, and look forward to engaging with fellow innovators, sector leaders and challenge owners in India.

Cambridge Particle Meeting 2023

CMCL’s Application Engineer, Dr Chung Ting Lao, will present “Smart Port City Air Quality – A Dynamic Knowledge Graph Approach” at the morning session of 2023 Cambridge Particle Meeting, which will be held on 23 June 2023 at University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Our talk will cover research results from developments in our flagship technology “The World Avatar” along with our ongoing collaborations as a part of Horizon 2020 project DOME 4.0 on enabling semantic data sharing across multiple sources in the context of Maritime and air quality.

Do not miss out of this talk if you are interested in knowing how developing virtual air quality sensors, connecting data from multiple heterogenous sources such as weather, ship movement and built infrastructure, and enabling semantic interoperability can support decision making. Find the agenda and read more about the event here.