Research on the virtualization of key functionalities of production resources to enable their dynamic reconfiguration throughout their lifecycle.

The objective of XWAVE is to accelerate the global trend toward the virtualization and software-defined configuration of various industrial equipment. To this end, it proposes to undertake an unrestricted technological endeavor that will allow the XWAVE consortium to design, within a two-year timeframe, a first conceptual laboratory-scale environment in which all industrial equipment dedicated to Automation, Communications, and Manufacturing Systems Connectivity is fully virtualized and managed through software: routers, connectors, controllers, numerical controls, regulators, servers, gateways, connectors, energy management systems, etc.

Everything virtualized—except for the physical assets of the Manufacturing Systems themselves (robots, machines, sensors, actuators), which will also have their virtual replicas so that their parameters can be managed in real time.