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ADvanced Digital technologies and virtual engineering for mini-Factories (ADDFACTOR)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

In today globalized world, companies are trying to remain competitive through the adoption of a strategy where high quantity production of goods is the leverage to reduce costs.By negating this approach, ADDFactor proposes the “Mini-factories” concept, which is conceived to be an innovative solution for most of the actors involved in the whole supply chain: the relationship between retailers and t ...
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Engineering Apps for advanced Manufacturing Engineering (APPS4AME)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

Manufacturing is being shaped by the paradigm shift from mass production to on demand dictated, personalised, customer-driven and knowledge-based proactive production. Thus, shorter product life cycles, an increased number of product varieties, high performance processes and flexible production systems result in an increased complexity in the product design, process development, factory and produc ...
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Plug and PRoduce Intelligent Multi Agent Environment based on Standard Technology (PRIME)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

There is an increasing pressure on European SMEs to deliver high quality, often customised products using cost effective manufacturing processes and systems while competing in the global market. One of the key production processes in high labour cost areas such as Europe is assembly of final products in sectors such as automotive, aerospace, pharmaceutical and medical industries. They all require ...
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Factory ECO-friendly and energy efficient technologies and adaptive autoMATION solutions (FACTORY-ECOMATION)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The production landscape is changing. Traditionally, energy costs represented a small part of the production expenses, meaning that the design of production facilities usually neglected efficient energy usage in favour of maximization of production throughput; the energy consumption of factories has been always high, but energy cost has increased dramatically in the last decades, pushing industria ...
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EXPLORE - EXTENDED EXPLOITATION OF EUROPEAN RESEARCH PROJECTS’ KNOWLEDGE AND RESULTS (EXPLORE)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

The European Manufacturing Industry competitiveness and sustainability strongly depends on Innovation, targeting new consumer needs and societal challenges. This calls for significant public and private investments in R&D, but also a growing capability to transform the created knowledge into new products, processes, services and business models.Many of these challenges are multi-sectorial as the t ...
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European research and innovation agenda for future simulation and forecasting technologies (Pathfinder)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2014,

The European leadership and excellence in manufacturing are being significantly threatened by the huge economic crisis that hit the Western countries over the last years. More sustainable and efficient production systems able to keep pace with the market evolution are of paramount importance in the recovery plan aimed at innovating the European competitive landscape. An essential ingredient for a ...
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SELF OPTIMISING MEASURING MACHINE TOOLS (SOMMACT)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

SOMMACT develops and validates an innovative production hardware and control system founded on understanding, evaluating and controlling production system performances. This approach is based on detection (in-process traceable measurement embedded capabilities) and compensation (adaptive control and self-learning capabilities) of geometrical effects of varying external and internal quantities, suc ...
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Resilient Multi-Plant Networks (REMPLANET)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

"The main concept of this proposal is the development of methods, guidelines and tools for the implementation of the Resilient Multi-Plant Networks Model in non-hierarchical manufacturing networks, characterised by non-centralised decision making. A resilient organization effectively aligns its strategy, operations, management systems, governance structure, and decision-support capabilities so tha ...
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Design Of customeR dRiven shOes and multi-siTe factorY (DOROTHY)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

Shoe Manufacturing in Europe faces an intense and growing competitive pressure brought forth by low-wage countries.To maintain competitiveness DOROTHY promotes a response based on the transformation of shoe industry and related business model meant to strengthen Europe’s ability to compete in terms of high added value for the customer (as cost-based competition is not compatible with the goal of m ...
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