Objective
Manual work is a crucial and expensive component of manufacturing. Globalization causes companies to reduce manual work costs by offshoring and global outsourcing. This poses problems such as increased lead times, lower quality products and services, and weaker management. Because of the pressure of globalization and the decline of the working age population in Europe, the situation will get worse in sectors with a large proportion of high value manual work that cannot be automated or outsourced. The ManuVAR project aims to provide a timely and systematic solution to this problem. The objective of ManuVAR is to develop an innovative technology platform and a framework to support high value manual work throughout the product lifecycle. ManuVAR will cover ergonomics, safety, work assistance, and training. It includes various people from designers to factory workers, operators, maintenance personnel, and end-users. The aims of ManuVAR are to: (1) increase productivity and quality, reducing the cost of high value manual work at every stage of the lifecycle; (2) facilitate adaptation to product customization and changes; (3) support efficient knowledge and skill management; (4) improve EU industry competitiveness via knowledge-based business models. This will be achieved by employing virtual reality technology to facilitate communication between people and systems. It will also enable the two-way flow of knowledge and its accumulation and reuse throughout the entire lifecycle and across subsequent system generations. The consortium comprises 18 partners representing industry, research and academia. In ManuVAR, there are five synergistic application clusters in different industrial areas: terrestrial satellite assembly, assembly line design, remote maintenance of trains, maintenance of nuclear reactors, large machine assembly process design. ManuVAR will demonstrate that high value, high knowledge manual work is an opportunity to improve the competitiveness of EU industries.
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- engineering and technology other engineering and technologies nuclear engineering
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software software applications virtual reality
- social sciences other social sciences development studies development theories global development studies globalization
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software software applications simulation software
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FP7-NMP-2007-LARGE-1
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02150 Espoo
Finland
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02044 VTT ESPOO
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80686 MUNCHEN
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2595 DA DEN HAAG
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48160 DERIO BIZKAIA
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106 82 ATHINA
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D02 CX56 Dublin
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29016 MALAGA
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NG7 2RD Nottingham
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33720 Tampere
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00131 Roma
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33101 ESPOO
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20009 Donostia
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28703 San Sebastian De Los Reyes - Madrid
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A96 PR60 Dublin
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33720 Tampere
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20154 MILANO
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5684PL Best
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1721PN Broek op Langedijk
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20009 DONOSTIA - SAN SEBASTIAN
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