FIRST — virtual Factories: Interoperation suppoRting buSiness innovaTion

Results in brief

virtual Factories: Interoperation suppoRting buSiness innovaTion

The project “vF Interoperation suppoRting buSiness innovaTion” (FIRST) provides the new technology and methodology to describe manufacturing assets; to compose and integrate the existing services into collaborative virtual manufacturing processes, and to deal with the evolution of changes. The consortium has achieved relevant scientific contributions, created new collaborations and enhanced existing ones, and proposed and implemented well-attended training and networking activities. The FIRST project delivered two technical deliverables for WP1 and one technical deliverable for WP2 as well as four managerial deliverables for WP7. The project for the final period, the concrete designs of manufacturing asset/service discovery and composition methods (D3.1), on-the-fly service oriented process verification methods (D4.1) and interoperability framework of virtual factory and business innovation (D5.1) need to be completed, which would lead to the FIRST overarching objective to enhance manufacturing integration through the application of advanced IT solutions, the innovative project brings together an experienced researcher with expertise in the designing an interoperability framework for facilitating interoperability on data/information, services and process levels respectively. We also expect these outcomes lead to significant business innovations for virtual factories, for example, to bring current partner organization from a traditional manufactory into an advance manufactory align with industry 4.0.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

The manufacturing industry is entering a new era in which new ICT technologies and collaboration applications are integrated with traditional manufacturing practices and processes, which brings virtual organisations to factories, i.e. Manufacturing 2.0. Virtual factory to future manufacturing slows the flexible amalgamation of manufacturing resources in multiple organisations to create timely, demand driven product lines.The project “vF Interoperation suppoRting buSiness innovaTion” (FIRST) provides the new technology and methodology to describe manufacturing assets; to compose and integrate the existing services into collaborative virtual manufacturing processes; and to deal with evolution of changes. From the overarching objective to enhance manufacturing integration through the application of advanced IT solutions, the innovative project brings together an experienced researcher with expertise in the designing an interoperability framework for facilitating interoperability on data/information, services and process levels respectively. These outcomes lead to significant business innovations for virtual factories, made possible by an internationally recognised group expertise in (manufacturing) services/assets description languages, semantic services discover methods, and automated interoperability. The experienced researcher has an existing background in service oriented business process management; ontology based process model registration and management; and web service discovery and selection. She combines this with a perspective on application of those technologies. The FIRST project will take advantage of this complementary experience as well as the academic and industrial relationships in Europe and China respectively, taking advantage of the unique opportunity to address the concept from both perspectives.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY · POOLECoordinatorUnited Kingdom
GK SOFTWARE SE · SchoneckGermany
RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN · GroningenNetherlands
SHANGHAI POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY · SHANGHAIChina
SHUANGCHI INDUSTRIAL CO.LTD · PUTIANChina
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MODENA E REGGIO EMILIA · ModenaItaly
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA · RomaItaly
WUHAN KM INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COLTD · WUHANChina

FIRST · virtual Factories: Interoperation suppoRting buSiness innovaTion

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virtual Factories: Interoperation suppoRting buSiness innovaTion

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