Project description
European repurposing manufacturing-as-a-service network for fast pandemic reaction
With the arrival of COVID-19, the peak in demand of medical supplies and equipment highlighted serious deficits in manufacturing and distribution capacity. A novel approach is necessary to optimise these capacities and to repurpose digital infrastructures, data spaces, coordination platforms and manufacturing networks. The EU-funded Eur3ka project will facilitate access to a unified pandemic response coordination framework fulfilling the needs of stakeholders from the digital, manufacturing, health, and certification domains. It will connect various innovations, production architectures, digital technologies, with certified/standardised processes into a Plug&Respond (P&R) platform running at scale. The ultimate goal is to enable an effective 4R (Rapid, Reliable, Resilient and Robust) response to COVID-19 while ensuring manufacturing infrastructures are ready for future pandemics or other disruptive outbreaks.
Objective
Recent events have demonstrated the need for readiness for medical supply and equipment rapid manufacturing repurposing. Eur3ka will deliver a trusted and unique capability to plug and collectively respond to a sudden demand increased in a coordinated and effective manner at unprecedented scale.
Eur3ka mission is to bring together most recent R&I results in (1) Industry 4.0 standards, open automation modular manufacturing production line enablers; (2) industrial international common data space enablers and digital infrastructures; (3) global on-demand and manufacturing as a service platforms; (4) connected and smarter supply networks, and global medical supplies and equipment repositories; (5) the vibrant European and Global network of manufacturing DIH network innovation services and open experimental facilities.
The main ambition of Eur3ka is to enable and facilitate global and fair access to (1) a Plug & Respond (P&R) repurposing resource coordination framework for pandemic crisis response, (2) a common open standardized modular manufacturing reference architecture and solutions, and (3) top digitally sovereign cross-sectorial manufacturing networks and capacities that should allow to connect global manufacturing and supply chain capabilities and medical knowledge on-demand and as-a-Service across the globe in an IP-responsive manner to ensure rapid manufacturing repurposing for an increased and sudden demand of medical supplies and equipment.
Eur3ka builds and extends the existing Global Network of Advanced Manufacturing Hubs (AMHUBs) to leverage a comprehensive COVID response based on solid socio-tecno-economic pillars that bring together advanced manufacturing and digital enablers that will raise robustness, redundancy, resourcefulness, response, and recovery against current and future pandemics. Eur3ka vision builds on and accelerate current digital transformation industry 4.0 efforts, as well as flexible regulations and tailored workforce re-/up- skilling
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H2020-SC1-PHE-CORONAVIRUS-2020-2
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062204 Bucuresti
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28760 Tres Cantos Madrid
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81739 Munchen
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1253 Luxembourg
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8600 Silkeborg
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5657 BX Eindhoven
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02600 Espoo
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16040 San Colombano Certenoli
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16129 Genova Ge
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48930 Getxo Vizcaya
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8500-794 Portimao
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44227 Dortmund
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20133 Milano
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80686 Munchen
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0313 Oslo
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8092 Zuerich
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2630 Taastrup
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44227 Dortmund
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48008 Bilbao
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20124 Milan
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24126 Bergamo
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2595 DA Den Haag
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2500 VALBY
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9000 Aalborg
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