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Z-BRE4K | Strategies and Predictive Maintenance models wrapped around physical systems for Zero-unexpected-Breakdowns and increased operating life of Factories

01-10-2017

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31-03-2021

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Description manufacturing industry and the society can be summarised in the following: increase of the in-service efficiency by 24%, reduced accidents, increased Verification according to objectives, 400 new
Comments skills and/or job profiles Additional KPIs Data scientist on predictive maintenance IT on data analysis Engineering on asset failure analysis Number of generated spin-offs
 Report on training activities Result title Report on training activities Result description Training material and assets produced; details on internal/external training sessions; calendar of activities; analysis of feedback received.
 Advanced and ubiquitous human machine interaction Taxon description humans through ubiquity of mobile devices will enable users to receive relevant production and enterprise-specific information regardless of their geographical location and tailored to the context and the skills

COMPOSITION | Ecosystem for Collaborative Manufacturing Processes _ Intra- and Interfactory Integration and Automation

01-09-2016

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31-08-2019

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Description Furthermore, it opens a new space for third party entities to actively interact along the supply chain, e.g., by providing services to optimise cycle time, cost, flexibility or resource usage.
Comments  CNet Svenska AB (CNET) http://www.cnet.se/ Number of new skills and/or job profiles Additional KPIs 1. Blockchain security specialist for industrial environments.
 D9.7 Cost, Benefit, and Risk Evaluation Result description For D9.11 a new benefit, cost and risk analysis will be carried out
 Dynamic IT connections to new supply chain partners Taxon title Dynamic IT connections to new supply chain partners
 Domain 5: Human-centric manufacturing Taxon description Future enterprises will be better equipped for transferring skills to new generations of workers, and also proficient in assisting aging, disabled and multi-cultural workers with better information and

HI-MICRO | High Precision Micro Production Technologies

01-10-2012

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30-09-2015

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Comments Precision micro-powder injection moulding for ceramics Number of participating SMEs Additional KPIs Layerwise (BE) Polyoptics (DE) SOPHION (DK) FORMATEC (NL) DESMA (DE) Number of new skills and/or
 CT Metrology machine with Nanofocus source Result description New calibration phantom and multi-material CT reconstruction engine implemented in a new CT metrology machine for micro-parts metrology
 Domain 1: Advanced manufacturing processes Taxon description The set of research priorities under this domain focuses on innovative processes for efficient and high quality manufacturing for either both new and current materials or products.

FAR-EDGE | Factory Automation Edge Computing Operating System Reference Implementation

01-10-2016

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30-10-2019

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Comments Number of new skills and/or job profiles Additional KPIs Solution providers, system integrators and OEMs that want to take advantage of the FAR-EDGE innovative approach to Edge Computing will
 Periodic Reporting for period 2 - FAR-EDGE (Factory Automation Edge Computing Operating System Reference Implementation) Result description The goal is having more efficient and flexible production systems on the one side, while enabling new business models on...
 Domain 3: Digital, virtual and resource-efficient factories Taxon description New paradigms in the way plants are designed and managed leveraging the best practices of enabling technologies are required to cope with competition and sustainability related issues.

SYMBIO-TIC | Symbiotic Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly: Technologies, Innovations and Competitiveness

01-04-2015

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01-04-2019

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Description The European robotics industry is moving towards a new generation of robots, based on safety in the workplace and the ability to work alongside humans.
Comments skills and/or job profiles Additional KPIs Smart Robot operators Smart robot cell developer Number of new training offerings or curricula developed Additional KPIs Human-robot collaboration training
 Flexible force control of robots in collaborative tasks Result description The approach offers new opportunities for utilizing industrial robots. Especially faster reprogramming of new path is a typical application.
 Knowledge-workers and operators Taxon description Workers with high knowledge and skills (“knowledge workers”) will be scarce resources.

AREUS | Automation and Robotics for EUropean Sustainabile manufacturing

01-09-2013

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31-08-2016

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Comments Number of new skills and/or job profiles Additional KPIs still under evaluation, novel engineering services are being enabled and the related high skills jobs will be needed Number of project results
  Robot Energy efficient Trajectories and eco-modes/ acceleration profiles library Result title Robot Energy efficient Trajectories and eco-modes/ acceleration profiles library
  Multi-robot scheduling and optimization software tools Result description The tool Sequence Planner (SP) provides new algorithms for multi-robot scheduling and optimization, focusing on the minimization of the overall Energy Consumption.
 RP 2.6 Mechatronics and new machine architectures for high performance and resource-efficient manufacturing equipment Taxon title RP 2.6 Mechatronics and new machine architectures for high performance and resource-efficient manufacturing equipment
 RP 3.12 Design and management of manufacturing strategies Taxon description strategy (produce to order or make to stock), product usage (profiles of customers), product servicing (type of maintenance services proposed), and product recycling.

FIBREMAP | Automatic Mapping of Fibre Orientation for Draping of Carbon Fibre Parts

01-09-2013

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31-08-2016

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Description This is based on a new technology that uses reflection models of carbon fibre to solve the problems encountered with earlier vision-based approaches.
Comments skills and/or job profiles Additional KPIs Number of project results taken-up for higher TRLs using additional investments Additional KPIs Reduction of energy consumption (in %) Additional KPIs Contribution
 Draping Simulation Software with automatic optimization of model parameters Result description The new version of the software allows the optimization of the parameters by using fibre angle measurements directly from the draped part.
 High productivity and “self assembly” technologies development of conventional (joining, forming, machining) and new micro/nano-manufacturing processes Taxon title High productivity and “self assembly” technologies development of conventional (joining, forming, machining) and new micro/nano-manufacturing processes
 RP 1.6 Material efficient Manufacturing processes Taxon description The latter can exploit the use of novel, new or regenerative (i.e.

X-ACT | Expert cooperative robots for highly skilled operations for the factory of the future

01-10-2012

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30-09-2015

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Comments id=1039 Number of participating SMEs Additional KPIs Alfa Hogar S.L., EIBAR, SPAIN PILZ INDUSTRIEELEKTRONIK SL, GRANOLLERS, SPAIN Number of new skills and/or job profiles Additional KPIs - Production
 Multi-criteria motion planner Result description A new path planner calculator will increase the flexibility to adjust a robot path in the selected criteria.
 RP 2.5 Mechatronics and new machine architectures for adaptive and evolving Factories Taxon title RP 2.5 Mechatronics and new machine architectures for adaptive and evolving Factories
 Target clients Taxon description Which new markets and users will be connected?

ProRegio | Customer-driven design of product-services and production networks to adapt to regional market requirements

01-01-2015

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01-01-2018

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Description The development of this new business approach is based on three major issues, namely design of customer oriented product-services for frugal innovation in a bottom-up development process, optimization
Comments skills and/or job profiles Additional KPIs Arcelik 1- Supplier Network Designer Expert (during and after the project) LMS 2 - Supplier Network design expert, expert for AR applications
 Local Job Shop (Re-) Scheduling Result title Local Job Shop (Re-) Scheduling
 Evaluation of global manufacturing networks - a matter of perspective Result description .; Lanza, G.Journal title: Proceeedings of the 19th Cambridge International Manufacturing Symposium: International Manufacturing - revisited: embracing new technologies, capabilities and marketsJournal
 RP 6.10 Customer focused products quality assessment standards and tools Taxon description In particular new paradigms like product individualisation and mass customisation call for new standard system in order to fully implement the benefits of standardisation and scale economies.

TWIN-CONTROL | Twin-model based virtual manufacturing for machine tool-process simulation and control

10-01-2015

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30-09-2018

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Description Simulation tools are currently a key complement to European machine tool industry expertise but new integrated approaches are needed.
Comments skills and/or job profiles Additional KPIs Project in early stage bt some jobs already developed Number of new training offerings or curricula developed Additional KPIs Project in early stage Number of
 New approach for bearing life cycle control Result title New approach for bearing life cycle control
 Machine Tool Digital Twin with Life Cycle features Result description A new approach to simulate machining processes has been developed based in SAMCEF Mecano FEM solver.
 Platform enabled optimisation Taxon description In general, digital platforms offer added-value basd upon three main mechanisms: Reduction of transaction costs Network effects Use of data integration for new services

ConnectedFactories | Industrial scenarios for connected factories

01-09-2016

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31-08-2019

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Comments and training aspects Significant innovations and lessons learned, training aspects Standards Standards and standardisation Business model aspects of digital platform deployment Business model aspects
 Video - Collaborative Product-Service Factories pathway Result description    This would also enable the shift of job profiles that are more associated to service-delivery. More on https://www.connectedfactories.eu/collaborative-product-service-factories-pathway
 Skills and training aspects Taxon title Skills and training aspects
 Data ownership - data governance Taxon description When formerly isolated data are shared, suddenly a new set of factors arises, both in terms of new external factors, but also in terms of business/microeconomic implications.

CAPP-4-SMES | Collaborative and Adaptive Process Planning for Sustainable Manufacturing Environments

01-12-2012

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30-11-2015

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Description knowledge-based and integrated process simulation towards first-time-right processes; (3) event-driven function blocks for on-board adaptive process control; (4) machine availability monitoring for real-time job
Comments skills and/or job profiles Additional KPIs Number of new training offerings or curricula developed Additional KPIs Reduction of energy consumption (in %) Additional KPIs Contribution to the reduction
 Knowledge-workers and operators Taxon description Workers with high knowledge and skills (“knowledge workers”) will be scarce resources.

COROMA | Cognitively enhanced robot for flexible manufacturing of metal and composite parts

01-10-2016

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30-09-2019

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Comments skills and/or job profiles Additional KPIs - An advanced operator - a robotics programmer (automation skilled) - a manufacturing process designers that considers the three realities
 A Comparison of Policy Search in Joint Space and Cartesian Space for Refinement of Skills Result title A Comparison of Policy Search in Joint Space and Cartesian Space for Refinement of Skills
 Periodic Reporting for period 2 - COROMA (Cognitively enhanced robot for flexible manufacturing of metal and composite parts) Result description COROMA (Cognitively Enhanced Robot for Flexible Manufacturing of Metal and Composite Parts) European project has developed a new intelligent, modular and flexible industrial robot concept with the capability

AUTORECON | AUTOnomous co-operative machines for highly RECONfigurable assembly operations of the future

01-10-2011

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30-09-2014

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Description At the line control level a service oriented architecture will enable: Autonomous communication between resources for deciding on adaptation actions The effortless integration of new equipment.
Comments TUENKERS Number of new skills and/or job profiles Additional KPIs - Production planner for reconfigurable assembly lines - Integrators/designers of mobile robot enabled stations - Programmers of robotic
 AGV with autonomous Navigation system Result description Or as a spin-off exploitation, to provide omnidirectional autonomous navigation as a new feature for industrial AGV.
 Mobile robotic manipulator Result description Or as a spin-off exploitation, to provide omnidirectional autonomous navigation as a new feature for industrial AGV.

PREMANUS | Product Remanufacturing Service System

01-09-2011

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30-06-2015

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Description Remanufacturing is the process of bringing used products to “like-new” functional state with an equivalent quality assurance.
Comments FoF Partnership SRIA Research priorities RP 5.2 Advanced Information Models for knowledge creation and learning FoF Partnership SRIA Research priorities Domain 5: Human-centric manufacturing RP 5.4 New
 RP 5.4 New ways of interaction and collaboration between workers and other resources in manufacturing systems Taxon title RP 5.4 New ways of interaction and collaboration between workers and other resources in manufacturing systems
 RP 5.2 Advanced Information Models for knowledge creation and learning Taxon description ICT training tools are further needed to improve the transfer of best practices to workers at the shop-floor (e.g. to improve efficiency, productivity and reliability, or to prevent job risks).

EASE-R3 | Integrated framework for a cost-effective and ease of Repair, Renovation and Re-use of machine tools within modern factory

01-07-2013

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30-06-2016

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Comments skills and/or job profiles Additional KPIs Virtual Real management and programming Number of new training offerings or curricula developed Additional KPIs Lecture on machine tool dynamic errors, machine
 Integrated framework for a cost-effective and EASE of Repair, Renovation and Re-use of machine tools within modern factory Result description design - Reducing the cost of ownership - Attractive to workers, people enjoy new technology like AR - Provide feasible long term maintenance - Reduce risks in management decisions - Reduce
 RP 3.14 De-Manufacturing factories Taxon description New integrated flexible de-manufacturing technologies should be realized, together with new business models comprehending reverse logistics processes and market approaches that make sustainable the End-Of-Life

Daedalus | Distributed control and simulAtion platform to support an Ecosystem of DigitAL aUtomation developerS

01-10-2016

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30-09-2019

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Description Daedalus proposes the deployment of an Automation Ecosystem for a multi-sided market based on a new generation of distributed intelligent devices (CPS) that, existing both in the real and in the cyber
Comments Number of developed systems and technologies Additional KPIs Number of new skills and/or job profiles Additional KPIs Number of new training offerings or curricula developed Additional KPIs Number of
 Next generation of IEC-61499 automation tool-chain Result description An object-oriented Integrated Development Environment (IDE), fully compliant with the new evolution of the IEC 61499, where developers of single CPS and/or of the orchestrating intelligence governing the
 Skills and training aspects Taxon title Skills and training aspects
 Target clients Taxon description Which new markets and users will be connected?

ROBO-PARTNER | Seamless Human-Robot Cooperation for Intelligent, Flexible and Safe Operations in the Assembly Factories of the Future

01-11-2013

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30-04-2017

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Description Human skills are the main driver that enables producing high added value products in Europe. Thus the manufacturing processes are based on utilizing these skills.
Comments Integration and communication architecture Number of participating SMEs Additional KPIs PILZ, ROBOSOFT, JATORMAN, GROBO, TRIMEK Number of new skills and/or job profiles Additional KPIs - Production
 Multi modal interfaces for human robot interaction (speech, gestures) Result description interact with the robot during Programming /setup and production (coordinating) The advantages are an enhanced interaction by simple audio commands and hand/body gestures, shorter learning curve – less training
 Domain 5: Human-centric manufacturing Taxon description Future enterprises will be better equipped for transferring skills to new generations of workers, and also proficient in assisting aging, disabled and multi-cultural workers with better information and

IMPROVE | Innovative Modeling Approaches for Production Systems to raise validatable efficiency

09-01-2015

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31-08-2018

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Description Operator interaction will be done by a new developed HMI (Human Machine Interface) providing the huge amount of data in a reliable manner.
Comments skills and/or job profiles Additional KPIs Number of new training offerings or curricula developed Additional KPIs - B.Sc.
 Service Innovation and new Business Models Taxon title Service Innovation and new Business Models
 RP 2.14 Intuitive interfaces, mobility and rich user experience at the shop floor Taxon description Future research should exploit new mobile and user experience technologies to enhance the working experience of the European workers.

PREVIEW | PREdictiVe system to recommend Injection mold sEtup in Wireless sensor networks

01-01-2015

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01-01-2018

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Comments skills and/or job profiles Additional KPIs It is likely that Plastic Injection Moulding operators may required new skills to take advantage of all possible functionalities offered by new CPS and ICT systems
 PROMOLDING production facilities Result description PROMOLDING owns and operates a machinery park including 14 machines, ranging from 15T to 800T clamping force, from 20 years old to brandy new.
 RP 5.5 New recommendation systems for the European workforce Taxon title RP 5.5 New recommendation systems for the European workforce
 Domain 5: Human-centric manufacturing Taxon description Future enterprises will be better equipped for transferring skills to new generations of workers, and also proficient in assisting aging, disabled and multi-cultural workers with better information and

SatisFactory | A collaborative and augmented-enabled ecosystem for increasing SATISfaction and working experience in smart FACTORY environments

01-01-2015

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31-12-2017

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Description The objective is to increase the flexibility, productivity and innovation potential of modern factories, while enhancing the skills and commitment of the workforce.
Comments GlassUp srl (GlassUp) http://www.glassup.net/en/ Number of new skills and/or job profiles Additional KPIs AR educator/supervisor.
 "On-the-job" Training and Educational Platform Result title "On-the-job" Training and Educational Platform Result description approach to training "on the job".
 DELIVERABLE D2.5 - On-the-job "training/educational environment" Result acronym SatisFactory - On job training
 Skills and training aspects Taxon title Skills and training aspects
 RP 5.2 Advanced Information Models for knowledge creation and learning Taxon description ICT training tools are further needed to improve the transfer of best practices to workers at the shop-floor (e.g. to improve efficiency, productivity and reliability, or to prevent job risks).

CABLEBOT | Parallel Cable Robotics for Improving Maintenance and Logistics of Large-Scale Products

01-11-2011

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31-10-2014

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Description The main objective of CableBOT project is the development of a new generation of modular and reconfigurable robotic devices that are capable of performing many different steps in the life-cycle stages
Comments skills and/or job profiles Additional KPIs Number of new training offerings or curricula developed Additional KPIs Number of project results taken-up for higher TRLs using additional investments Additional
 RP 2.5 Mechatronics and new machine architectures for adaptive and evolving Factories Taxon title RP 2.5 Mechatronics and new machine architectures for adaptive and evolving Factories
 RP 2.6 Mechatronics and new machine architectures for high performance and resource-efficient manufacturing equipment Taxon description towards competitive and eco-efficient manufacturing equipment, machine concepts could be reconceived from scratch, by integrating at conception stage multi-disciplinary and synergetic technologies such as new

ReCaM | Rapid Reconfiguration of Flexible Production Systems through Capability-based Adaptation, Auto-configuration and Integrated tools for Production Planning

11-01-2015

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31-10-2018

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Description will ground on existing de-facto standards and specifications regarding reconfigurable system architectures, resource data models, control architectures and interfaces, and will provide and supplement new
Comments Number of new skills and/or job profiles Additional KPIs Number of new training offerings or curricula developed Additional KPIs Number of project results taken-up for higher TRLs using additional
 Bosch Environment HoP2 Result description Further, the production planners on shopfloor level are enabled to program new products without the need for support by machine suppliers. This allows a much faster reaction to changing needs.
 RP 2.5 Mechatronics and new machine architectures for adaptive and evolving Factories Taxon title RP 2.5 Mechatronics and new machine architectures for adaptive and evolving Factories
 RP 2.11 Dynamic Manufacturing Execution Environments for their Smarter Integration into dynamic and agile factories Taxon description This new generation should behave condition-based, exploit experience, self-organisation of manufacturing equipment and have suitable control and ICT architecture supporting these features.

APPS4AME | Engineering Apps for advanced Manufacturing Engineering

01-12-2012

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30-11-2015

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Description To handle this complexity, new knowledge-based methods, technologies and tools to model, simulate, optimise and monitor planned and existing manufacturing systems are required.
Comments skills and/or job profiles Additional KPIs Number of new training offerings or curricula developed Additional KPIs Number of project results taken-up for higher TRLs using additional investments Additional
 Delivery Time Estimation App Result description Lead time estimation of new orders as part of the communication with the customers b.
 RP 5.4 New ways of interaction and collaboration between workers and other resources in manufacturing systems Taxon title RP 5.4 New ways of interaction and collaboration between workers and other resources in manufacturing systems
 RP 5.2 Advanced Information Models for knowledge creation and learning Taxon description ICT training tools are further needed to improve the transfer of best practices to workers at the shop-floor (e.g. to improve efficiency, productivity and reliability, or to prevent job risks).

CloudiFacturing | Cloudification of Production Engineering for Predictive Digital Manufacturing

01-10-2017

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31-03-2021

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Comments Number of new skills and/or job profiles Additional KPIs For the first wave experiments we expects for the first after M42 13 new high-skilled jobs.
 Improving quality control and maintenance at manufacturing SMEs using big data analytics Result description This new solution models the behaviour of a system through a reverse engineering from the company’s old data to new advanced data.
 RP 3.12 Design and management of manufacturing strategies Taxon description strategy (produce to order or make to stock), product usage (profiles of customers), product servicing (type of maintenance services proposed), and product recycling.

THERMACO | Smart Thermal conductive Al MMCs by casting

01-09-2013

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31-08-2016

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Description THERMACO develops new and improved specialised heat conductive materials, aiming at extremely efficient solutions while taking environmental aspects into account.
Comments (http://www.graphenea.com) Number of new skills and/or job profiles Additional KPIs Technion: - Personal and lab experies in microstructur-thermal conductivity of metal structures.
 Advanced materials in manufacturing systems Taxon description efficiency and environmental targets and to meet new demands for a connected world.

ROBUSTPLANET | Shock-robust Design of Plants and their Supply Chain Networks

01-10-2013

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30-09-2016

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Description The development of this new business approach is based on four major pillars, namely (i) innovative supply services, (ii) innovative product-services enabled by ICT, (iii) innovative methodologies for
Comments skills and/or job profiles Additional KPIs Job 1: Design Synthesis based facility planner Job 2: Design Synthesis based supply chain manager Job 3: Remanufacturing engineer Job 4: Cockpit supply chain
 Simulation and Navigation Cockpit Result description chain (e.g. a new supplier or a new negotiated contract) on the plant performance by advanced calculation tools and simulations.
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