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Manufacturing Architecture for Resilience and Sustainability

Project description

Supporting SMEs to access breakthrough innovations

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent 99 % of all businesses in the EU. They form the backbone of Europe’s economy. Nevertheless, they struggle with a lack of radical technical innovation of their supply chains. With this in mind, the EU-funded MARS project will pave the way so that SMEs can access advanced European breakthrough innovations in the field of AI-driven digital manufacturing processes and enter into process chains that are geographically distributed. It will develop Industry 4.0 emerging technologies, such as digital twins of products, processes and machines and bio-intelligent production devices with local intelligence and high sensing coverage. MARS will also demonstrate how SMEs can decrease time delivery under difficult economical boundary conditions, while targeting ambitious energy-saving environmental objectives.

Objective

European manufacturing SMEs represent a major pillar of the EU economy but, even though some of these SMEs are world’s champion in their own business area, they are still threatened by the lack of radical technical innovation as well as successive crises of their supply chains. The MARS project aims to remedy to both issues by enabling SMEs to access advanced European breakthrough innovations in the field of AI-driven digital manufacturing processes and enter into process chains that are geographically distributed. Specifically, by gathering diverse expertise coming from complementary European partners, MARS will develop Industry4.0 emerging technologies including digital twins of products, processes and machines, bio-intelligent production devices with local intelligence and high sensing coverage, central intelligence with fleet learning approaches, data-driven manufacturing process models from different sources, blockchain technology for data hashing, traceability and securitization, multi-agent based manufacturing planning, multi-criteria intelligent optimization of processes and resources especially addressing environmental footprint. As a result, the impact of the project will lie into introducing radical flexibility in all different aspects of manufacturing processes, in particular by redefining the process route, raw material, resources, technology, throughput, manufacturing site, delivery date in no time, while keeping up with product’s requirements, proven product quality and sustainability of both processes and products. By demonstrating its results on two case studies exhibiting advanced manufacturing processes (incl. homogeneous and heterogenous data), MARS will show how SMEs can decrease time delivery under difficult economical boundary conditions, while targeting ambitious energy-saving environmental objectives.

Coordinator

ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE D'ARTS ET METIERS
Net EU contribution
€ 481 187,50
Address
BOULEVARD DE L HOPITAL 151
75013 Paris
France

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Region
Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Total cost
€ 725 562,50

Participants (11)

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