Periodic Reporting for period 1 - MAASive (MANUFACTURING AS A SERVICE TO INCREASE RESILIENCE IN VALUE NETWORKS)
Berichtszeitraum: 2024-01-01 bis 2025-06-30
The MAASive project—Manufacturing as a Service to increase resilience in Value networks—addresses the growing need for resilient, flexible, and service-oriented manufacturing ecosystems in Europe. In an era marked by frequent disruptions, from supply chain shocks to geopolitical instability, MAASive aims to transform traditional manufacturing into a dynamic, service-based model that can adapt quickly to change.
The project is grounded in the concept of Manufacturing-as-a-Service (MaaS), enabling companies to offer and consume manufacturing capabilities as services across a value network. This transformation supports servitization, predictive disruption management, and rapid reconfiguration of supply chains. MAASive integrates digital tools, simulation models, and decision-support systems to orchestrate manufacturing services in real time.
A key innovation is the Resilience Scoreboard, which helps companies assess their preparedness and prioritize responses to disruptions. The project also emphasizes human-centered design, incorporating social sciences and participatory methods to ensure inclusive and context-aware solutions.
MAASive contributes to EU strategic goals by enhancing industrial resilience, promoting circularity, and supporting digital transformation. Its expected impacts include improved resource efficiency, reduced downtime, and stronger collaboration across manufacturing networks. The project is aligned with Horizon Europe’s priorities on sustainability, innovation, and open science.
The project is grounded in the concept of Manufacturing-as-a-Service (MaaS), enabling companies to offer and consume manufacturing capabilities as services across a value network. This transformation supports servitization, predictive disruption management, and rapid reconfiguration of supply chains. MAASive integrates digital tools, simulation models, and decision-support systems to orchestrate manufacturing services in real time.
A key innovation is the Resilience Scoreboard, which helps companies assess their preparedness and prioritize responses to disruptions. The project also emphasizes human-centered design, incorporating social sciences and participatory methods to ensure inclusive and context-aware solutions.
MAASive contributes to EU strategic goals by enhancing industrial resilience, promoting circularity, and supporting digital transformation. Its expected impacts include improved resource efficiency, reduced downtime, and stronger collaboration across manufacturing networks. The project is aligned with Horizon Europe’s priorities on sustainability, innovation, and open science.
During the first 18 months, the MAASive project has delivered significant progress toward its objectives of enhancing resilience and flexibility in European manufacturing. The work began with the development of foundational frameworks and requirements, including a MaaS-based resilience framework and a participatory methodology to ensure active stakeholder engagement. These outputs laid the groundwork for the creation of advanced models and the design of platform architecture.
Building on this foundation, the project successfully completed the development of alpha and beta models for servitization, risk assessment, and scenario planning. These models enable companies to classify processes, assess capabilities, simulate disruptions, and plan effective recovery strategies, providing a robust toolkit for managing uncertainty in value networks.
In parallel, the technical team implemented the alpha version of the MAASive platform. This platform integrates key functionalities such as service definition, pricing, and orchestration, supported by a Search and Discovery application. Leveraging technologies like Oracle APEX and Apache Kafka, the platform demonstrates how digital tools can transform manufacturing into a service-oriented ecosystem.
Pilot demonstrations were launched in two industrial use cases, ARC and KAM, to validate the platform’s usability and relevance in real-world settings. These pilots mark an important step in ensuring that the solutions developed are practical, scalable, and aligned with industry needs.
To maximize impact, the project has invested heavily in dissemination and communication activities. A dedicated website, active social media channels, newsletters, and a video series have been established to share progress and engage stakeholders. MAASive has also been presented at leading international conferences, including IFAC MIM, APMS, and ICE/IEEE ITMC. Additionally, an innovative serious game has been developed to raise awareness of resilience and servitization concepts among industry and academic audiences.
Strong governance and quality assurance have underpinned all activities. The project has implemented a comprehensive Gender Equality Plan and Data Management Plan, ensuring that research practices are ethical, inclusive, and aligned with Horizon Europe standards. These measures reflect MAASive’s commitment to delivering not only technological innovation but also social responsibility and transparency.
All objectives are currently on track, with minor delays resolved without impact on overall progress.
Building on this foundation, the project successfully completed the development of alpha and beta models for servitization, risk assessment, and scenario planning. These models enable companies to classify processes, assess capabilities, simulate disruptions, and plan effective recovery strategies, providing a robust toolkit for managing uncertainty in value networks.
In parallel, the technical team implemented the alpha version of the MAASive platform. This platform integrates key functionalities such as service definition, pricing, and orchestration, supported by a Search and Discovery application. Leveraging technologies like Oracle APEX and Apache Kafka, the platform demonstrates how digital tools can transform manufacturing into a service-oriented ecosystem.
Pilot demonstrations were launched in two industrial use cases, ARC and KAM, to validate the platform’s usability and relevance in real-world settings. These pilots mark an important step in ensuring that the solutions developed are practical, scalable, and aligned with industry needs.
To maximize impact, the project has invested heavily in dissemination and communication activities. A dedicated website, active social media channels, newsletters, and a video series have been established to share progress and engage stakeholders. MAASive has also been presented at leading international conferences, including IFAC MIM, APMS, and ICE/IEEE ITMC. Additionally, an innovative serious game has been developed to raise awareness of resilience and servitization concepts among industry and academic audiences.
Strong governance and quality assurance have underpinned all activities. The project has implemented a comprehensive Gender Equality Plan and Data Management Plan, ensuring that research practices are ethical, inclusive, and aligned with Horizon Europe standards. These measures reflect MAASive’s commitment to delivering not only technological innovation but also social responsibility and transparency.
All objectives are currently on track, with minor delays resolved without impact on overall progress.
The MAASive project introduces several innovations that go beyond current practices in manufacturing resilience and servitization. At the core is the Resilience Scoreboard, a novel decision-support tool that visualizes resilience maturity across six capabilities using 37 validated indicators. This tool enables companies to monitor risks in real time and prioritize response strategies dynamically, providing a structured approach to managing uncertainty in value networks.
Complementing this is the Integrated MaaS Methodology, which offers a systematic approach to transforming manufacturing capabilities into services. It combines models for process classification, pricing, risk simulation, and scenario generation, enabling companies to adopt servitization strategies effectively and improve operational flexibility.
The project has also developed a Reference Architecture that provides a scalable, standards-aligned framework for implementing Manufacturing-as-a-Service. Fully compatible with RAMI 4.0 and designed to support integration of legacy systems and cross-company data sharing, this architecture has been published on Zenodo to ensure open access and encourage adoption across the manufacturing ecosystem.
Building on these foundations, the MAASive platform delivers practical tools for real-time service orchestration, pricing mechanisms, and disruption response planning. Designed for scalability and commercial potential, the platform leverages open-source technologies to ensure flexibility and long-term sustainability.
Finally, MAASive places strong emphasis on human-centred design. Social sciences have played a key role in shaping participatory frameworks and resilience methodologies, ensuring that the solutions developed are inclusive, relevant, and adaptable to diverse industrial contexts.
To maximize impact and ensure long-term uptake, the project has initiated a comprehensive exploitation strategy. This includes the identification of Key Exploitable Results, the development of IPR roadmaps, and targeted stakeholder engagement activities. MAASive is also actively building synergies with sister projects and preparing for broader market integration, reinforcing its ambition to drive systemic change in European manufacturing.
Complementing this is the Integrated MaaS Methodology, which offers a systematic approach to transforming manufacturing capabilities into services. It combines models for process classification, pricing, risk simulation, and scenario generation, enabling companies to adopt servitization strategies effectively and improve operational flexibility.
The project has also developed a Reference Architecture that provides a scalable, standards-aligned framework for implementing Manufacturing-as-a-Service. Fully compatible with RAMI 4.0 and designed to support integration of legacy systems and cross-company data sharing, this architecture has been published on Zenodo to ensure open access and encourage adoption across the manufacturing ecosystem.
Building on these foundations, the MAASive platform delivers practical tools for real-time service orchestration, pricing mechanisms, and disruption response planning. Designed for scalability and commercial potential, the platform leverages open-source technologies to ensure flexibility and long-term sustainability.
Finally, MAASive places strong emphasis on human-centred design. Social sciences have played a key role in shaping participatory frameworks and resilience methodologies, ensuring that the solutions developed are inclusive, relevant, and adaptable to diverse industrial contexts.
To maximize impact and ensure long-term uptake, the project has initiated a comprehensive exploitation strategy. This includes the identification of Key Exploitable Results, the development of IPR roadmaps, and targeted stakeholder engagement activities. MAASive is also actively building synergies with sister projects and preparing for broader market integration, reinforcing its ambition to drive systemic change in European manufacturing.