Objective
Consumer Driven Local Production with the Help of Virtual Design and Digital Manufacturing.
Objectives:
• To connect enabling virtual design and sales technology to enabling digital manufacturing technology and demonstrate their advantages and benefits;
• To demonstrate how virtual design and sales technology can be exploited by the fashion and sports goods industry and how, by means of such technology, consumer driven local production can be established.
• To accelerate and support the growth of European creative industries, especially in competing against low cost imports and bring production back to Europe;
• Through efficient dissemination create tens of innovative solutions with high market potential for the European creative industries SMEs.
How they will be achieved:
• A study of consumer attitudes and preferences towards interactive sales networks and customization sets the basis for the project. In order to utilize already available technology and to aim beyond the state-of-the-art, a Kick-Off Round Table Workshop will be organized at the beginning with wide participation by suitable IT suppliers.
• The novelties of the project are the inspiring and interactive avatar, radically new product construction system connected to no-inventory continuous from-roll-to-bag production, plus connecting digital consumer driven design to consumer driven manufacturing.
• The results of the project will be efficiently demonstrated by Road Show Workshops to be organized throughout Europe in cooperation with local Industry Associations.
Relevance to the work programme:
• The project will stimulate collaboration between ICT innovative technology providers and creative industry SMEs for wider adaption and deployment of innovative digital solutions.
• The aim is to accelerate and support the growth of European creative industries by improving their competitiveness and by bringing production back to Europe.
Fields of science
- humanitiesartsmodern and contemporary artradio and television
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternet
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware development
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementcommercee-commerce
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringtextiles
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Funding Scheme
IA - Innovation actionCoordinator
33100 Tampere
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Participants (8)
50190 Boras
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3500 Hasselt
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
FI00511 Helsinki
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90590 Oulu
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
03202 Elche
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
36720 Aitoo
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
1204 Geneva
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
9070 Destelbergen
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