Objective 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 systems that can: be installed quickly, achieve high volumes at shorter time intervals, perform with minimum interruptions and be reconfigured for new products with minimum cost.PRIME aims to create new solutions for deployment by SMEs of highly adaptive, reconfigurable self-aware plug and produce assembly systems, which will use multi-agent control, dynamic knowledge sharing, integrated monitoring, and innovative human-machine interaction mechanisms. These next generation assembly systems equipped with PRIME technology will be able to proactively support rapid reconfiguration, adaptation, error-recovery, and operational performance improvement. This will lead to a dramatic cost and time reduction of deploying and maintaining complex assembly systems on demand and improve their effectiveness.The PRIME vision will be achieved by enhancing today’s assembly systems with standardised plug and produce process and control solutions and interfaces to allow rapid reconfiguration and deployment, performance monitoring, self-awareness and evolutionary system adaptation. Based on this, the overall system performance will be monitored against production objectives and bottlenecks, thus errors and sub-optimal behaviour can be identified and assigned to the responsible stations. This will enable optimisation and adaptation of the assembly processes and associated system behaviour within a human centred environment. Furthermore, methods will be developed to integrate existing legacy system modules within the plug-and-produce environment using standardised interfacing. Fields of science engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineeringnatural sciencesmathematicspure mathematicsarithmeticsprime numbers Programme(s) FP7-NMP - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies Topic(s) FoF.NMP.2012-3 - Intelligent production machines and 'plug-and-produce' devices for the adaptive system integration of automation equipment, robots and other intelligent machines, peripheral devices, smart sensors and industrial IT systems Call for proposal FP7-2012-NMP-ICT-FoF See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-TP - Collaborative Project targeted to a special group (such as SMEs) Coordinator THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM EU contribution € 576 444,29 Address University Park NG7 2RD Nottingham United Kingdom See on map Region East Midlands (England) Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Nottingham Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Paul Cartledge (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT Germany EU contribution € 337 988,77 Address WERNER-VON-SIEMENS-STR. 1 80333 Munchen See on map Region Bayern Oberbayern München, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Hans-Reiner Leikard (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SIMPLAN AG Germany EU contribution € 359 206,76 Address SOPHIE SCHOLL PLATZ 6 63452 Hanau See on map Region Hessen Darmstadt Main-Kinzig-Kreis Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Sven Spieckermann (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data TQC LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 370 319,42 Address HOOTON STREET CARLTON ROAD NG3 2NJ Nottingham See on map Region East Midlands (England) Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Nottingham Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Mark Jones (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ASYRIL SA Switzerland EU contribution € 407 859,97 Address Z.I. 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