The key work was as follows:
• Management: Procedures, Metrics, Coordination and Reporting (WP1): Period and overall KPIs in have largely been achieved, exceeded, or have minor discrepancies. Tasks have broadly started and finished on time. over 152 deliverables have been completed in total including document and software.
• Business Challenge: Vision, Market, Use Cases, and Interlinking (WP2): This is the primary operational WP that kicked-off the project in 2019-01, with presence of all partners, the European Commission, and the EFPF and Qu4lity sister projects. The aim was to set clustering opportunities and the cohesion of the project: the goal, and the overall vision.
• Business Approach: Market, Exploitation, and Sustainability (WP3): This activity has addressed the methodological approach to the future exploitation of the projects and its components, namely Market Analysis, Competition, and Business Opportunity Analysis including value propositions and multiple business-model canvases, Business Models / Cases, as well as partners individual and joint exploitation plans. In terms of joint exploitation, one of the primary exploitation routers of the project has been to set up a joint exploitation company named i4FS (Industry 4 Factory Solutions) of which 5 ZDMP SME technology partners (and 2 external ones) are the current shareholders and which joined as a beneficiary to the project at the end of 2020. Regular exploitation update has continued by all partners including those related to the value proposition, individual/joint exploitation and the IPR parameters for the project zAssets
• Technical Challenge: Requirements, Specifications, and Standardization (WP4): This work accomplished atM18 a first scene-setting about the technical aspects that the project could be shaped with, at the end of the project this information has been revised to reflect reality and ensure these technical documents fully align with the deliverables and final technical plans of the project and be useful to the project exploiters
• Technical work on components related to the following continued and moved on from initial functionality, to integration and interoperation, as well as inclusion on the ZDMP online Marketplace/platform:
• ZDMP Core Services and Middleware (WP5)
• ZDMP Platform Building (WP6)
• ZDMP: Process Quality Assurance (WP7)
• ZDMP: Product Quality Assurance (WP8)
• ZDMP Traditional Sector Cases: Automotive & Machine Tools (WP9) and ZDMP Extended Sector Cases: Construction & Electronics (WP10): Work delivered use case definitions, KPIs, infrastructure establishment for the pilots, application development, deployment, and validation
• ZDMP Experimentation Facility, Cross Domain Demonstrator, and Reference Implementation (WP11): These have been created and validated including the use by multiple subcall projects
• ZDMP Ecosystem Outreach and Cascading Call Management (WP12): 28 Cascading project were sponsored covering around 35 additional parties developing new ZDMP orientated assets, integrating them, and also providing validation
• Impact (WP13): The main activities have been to communicate through different channels mainly about open calls, zAssets, clustering and scientific activities with a fully open approach and the publishing of multiple papers. A major workshop was organised by ZDMP to help facilitate this - DMIS - Digital Manufacturing Industrial Summit, supported by a further 13 projects and with around 250 unique participants.
