Enhancing Manufacturing Resilience through Advanced Disruption Sensing

Written By Core Innovation

By Georgios Bardas, Netcompany-Intrasoft

As part of the M4ESTRO EU Project project, Netcompany-Intrasoft has developed a novel prototype for sensing and quantifying global disruptions with direct implications for resilient manufacturing.

The system is built on a modular, data-driven architecture capable of monitoring diverse sources of external risks, ranging from geopolitical instability and economic shocks to natural disasters. It fuses and processes multiple data streams, including financial indicators (via Yahoo Finance), global media content (e.g., GDELT, YouTube API), and structured third-party data sources.

Component Functionality

The prototype integrates multiple analytics services, each targeting a specific domain of disruption:

  • Financial Market Turbulence Analysis

  • Supplier Reliability Assessment

  • Natural Hazard Monitoring

  • Trade Route Disruption Detection

  • Geopolitical Event Monitoring

These services utilize shared statistical and machine learning modules, such as sentiment analysis, volatility clustering, and anomaly detection. All processed data is normalized, scored, and stored in a unified backend, ensuring compatibility with downstream decision-support tools in manufacturing environments.

Scenario-Based Demonstration

The solution was validated across a series of significant real-world scenarios, including:

  • The COVID-19 pandemic closures

  • The 2018 tsunami in Indonesia

  • The Ever Given incident in the Suez Canal

  • The 2023 earthquake in Turkey

  • The collapse of Lehman Brothers

Each scenario triggered context-specific analytics pipelines, allowing the system to generate risk indicators that closely mirrored the severity and real-time visibility of the actual events. The outputs demonstrated strong alignment with historical data and stakeholder expectations.

Impact and Outlook

This external risk sensing capability serves as a cornerstone for the reconfiguration models envisioned in M4ESTRO EU Project . It enables manufacturers to proactively assess and respond to emerging risks, supporting more agile and informed reconfiguration strategies. Through this work, Netcompany-Intrasoft contributes to building the foundation for resilient, intelligent, and adaptive manufacturing systems.

Originally published by Georgios Bardas on LinkedIn, [Link].

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