In WP1, Use Case-specific characteristics were defined and seven frugal innovation-oriented product-services and related business and financial models were defined and characterized. Regional market requirements were analyzed to validate the need for products and product-services regarding frugal innovation. To enable the integration of developed ICT-solutions, the related implementation requirements were gathered.
In WP2, conceptual methods and models to support the customer-driven product-service design process for regional market adaptation were developed. On that basis, innovative tools were designed to support interactions with all involved stakeholders in the customer-driven product-service design process. A PLM tool was developed and implemented as backbone of the ProRegio platform to support new data management needs required by the customer-driven product-service design.
In WP3, KPIs for a multi-objective assessment and evaluation of production networks and a generic modelling approach for production networks were defined. Based on the KPIs and on the modelling approach, methods for supplier selection and network design as well as for production network design and redesign were developed. Moreover, decision support tools for tactical global assignment of customer orders and operational local (re-)scheduling were devised. All of the developed tools were implemented as software prototypes and respective production network cooperation and coordination mechanisms were described.
In WP4, based on a tool called “Capability Assessment Tool”, tools, which enable to make use of knowledge on the process and system capabilities of distributed plants to properly allocate frugal product features and to exploit sensor-enabled innovative services in view of frugal innovation, were developed. Furthermore, a set of engineering rules useful to gather knowledge about implicit region-dependent system design requirements and to translate these requirements into feasible process sequence alternatives were implemented.
The general objective of WP5 was to specify, implement, and test the cloud-based ProRegio platform. First, the framework for the platform was developed and the data-model, the architecture and the interfaces were specified. Then, the cloud-based ProRegio platform, comprising the PLM tool, connectors to all other tools as well as the tools themselves, was implemented, tested and validated. The integrated platform enables the usage of and the interaction with all the tools as defined and specified in the previous work packages 2, 3, and 4.
The objective of WP6 was to test and validate the tools developed and implemented in the previous work packages within the three Use Cases. For Use Cases the different characteristics and features regarding different customer requirements were considered and respective tools were applied. In each Use Case KPIs have been assessed demonstrating the impacts and the achievements towards product-service orientation in the manufacturing industry. Finally, the ProRegio impacts were aggregated for the overall ProRegio project.
In WP7, regarding dissemination, a detailed plan was defined and updated on a regular basis. Besides, the website of the project was also set-up and a 'digital heritage' of the project results was provided at the end of the project. The scientific results of the project were published in conference and journal papers, and a project cluster was established on innovative product-service design. Several exploitation events for exploiting the final results of the project were organized. An exploitation plan related to the outcomes of the project was drafted and continuously updated.
