Summary
ComVantage is envisioned to be an inter-organisational collaboration space turning today’s organisation-centred manufacturing approach into a product-centred one. Manufacturers will benefit from a flexible, efficient platform that helps them to operate as one virtual factory and thus gain competitive advantages in their markets.
Based on best practises of Web 2.0 technologies the collaboration space will be an extension to existing business and engineering software.
The framework of the virtual factory will encompass a secure access control that is founded on dynamic workflow models and flexible user roles accounting for large enterprises, SMEs and for end-customers. It will enable temporary and decentralised access management for ad-hoc collaboration between geographically distributed experts.
To adhere to changing working situations, to efficient communication, and to rich interaction technologies, ComVantage will focus on mobile devices. Intuitive and secure mobile apps will support users in fast decision making and problem solving. Information from different sources across the organisations will be provided and maintained via ‘Linked Data’. The integration of sensor data allows for products to be members of the collaboration space.
A continuous evaluation of the ICT and business model considering use cases throughout the project will verify the added-value of ComVantage for European industry. The utilisation of existing technologies, a close user approach, and an incremental project set-up will provide sound concepts ready for fast production.
Thus implementing ComVantage will increase lean communication, agile and highly efficient production processes, cost control and a low carbon footprint.
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| Web resources: |
http://www.comvantage.eu
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/284928 |
| Start date: | 01-09-2011 |
| End date: | 31-08-2014 |
| Total budget - Public funding: | 10 941 335,00 Euro - 7 339 000,00 Euro |
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With ComVantage we envision an interorganisational collaboration space turning today's organisation-centric manufacturing approach into a product-centric one. Manufacturers will benefit from a flexible, efficient platform that helps them to operate as one virtual factory and thus gain competitive advantages in their markets. Based on best practises of Web 2.0 technologies the collaboration space will be an extension to existing business and engineering software. It will allow to share, administrate and monitor focused information throughout a product's life cycle in a de-centralised manner. The close collaboration on the B2B and B2C levels will foster existing trends such as Open Innovation or Crowd Sourcing.The framework of the virtual factory will encompass a secure access control that is founded on dynamic workflow models and flexible user roles accounting for large enterprises, SMEs and for end-customers. It will enable temporary and de-centralised access management for ad-hoc collaboration between geographically distributed experts.To adhere to changing working situations, to efficient communication, and to rich interaction technologies ComVantage will focus on mobile devices. Intuitive and trustful mobile apps shall support users in fast decision making and problem solving. Information from different sources across the organisations is provided and maintained via Linked Data . The integration of sensor data allows for products to be members of the collaboration space.A continuous evaluation of the ICT and business model considering use cases throughout the project will verify the added-value of ComVantage for the European industry. The utilisation of existing technologies, a close user approach, and an incremental project set-up will provide sound concepts ready for fast productisation. Thus implementing ComVantage will increase lean communication, agile and highly efficient production processes, cost control and a low carbon footprint.Status
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FoF-ICT-2011.7.3Update Date
27-10-2022
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FoF and Made in Europe Partnership
Factories of the Future Partnership - Made in Europe Partnership
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Standards and standardisation
Manufacturing performance characteristics
Comment: -ad-hoc adaptation of production processes w.r.t changing business and technical constraints - ad-hoc adaptation of tool support (e.g. mobile App Ensembles)
Technologies and enablers
Comment: Adapter for semantic lifting of field/machine data (based on proprietary machine middleware), harmonization and interlinking of field/machine data with business data based on Linked Data principles
Comment: collaboration space w.r.t. secure cross-domain / cross-organizational user authentication and fine-grained user authorization (based on graph-concepts, Linked Data principles)
ICT performance characteristics
Comment: Collaboration space for manufacturing-oriented virtual enterprises (of distributed collaboration partners/stakeholders) - location independent access based on mobile applications, interlinking remote resources (e.g. experts, business data, field data,...)
Manufacturing future products
Comment: -customer integration into production processes - support for process status transparency and late customization - support of fine-grained customization of individual products (not mass customization)
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| SAP AG (Coördinator)
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| ASOCIACION DE EMPRESAS TECNOLOGICAS INNOVALIA
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| BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV
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| BOC BUSINESS OBJECTIVES CONSULTING IBERICA SLU
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| COMAU SPA
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| Dresscode21 GmbH
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| EVIDIAN SA
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| INNOVATION SERVICE NETWORK PODJETNISKO IN POSLOVNO SVETOVANJE DOO
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| Kölsch & Altmann Software & Management Consulting GmbH
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| NEXTEL SA
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| RST INDUSTRIE AUTOMATION GMBH
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| TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDEN
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| TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN
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| UNIVERSITAT WIEN
Enhancements of real-world-integration related standards with Linked Data principles - access to open modelling platform (OMI)