Objective
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is essential for the digitalization of the manufacturing sector; notwithstanding, less than 25% of the manufacturing companies in Europe profit from ICT-enabled solutions. In order to democratically boost the competitiveness of the European manufacturers (especially Small and Medium-sized Enterprises - SMEs), innovative solutions need to consider technological and commercial scalability from the beginning. From this perspective, the cloudification of services has become the ideal enabler in the manufacturing digitalization. Successful European initiatives such us CloudFlow, cloudSME or Fortissimo have demonstrated the benefits of cloudification for engineering services, by means of combining HPC resources, computational tools, and cloud computing platforms. Manufacturing SMEs are empowered to compute and solve problems that cannot be tackled without cloud and HPC technology, making them more competitive by reducing development times for innovative product with better performance. The results of these initiatives are fostering the engineering and to some extend the prototyping processes within the manufacturing workflow; however, monitoring and optimizing production processes have not yet greatly benefited from an integrated information workflow and simulation loop based on on-line factory data.
The core partners of CloudFlow (eu-cloudflow.eu) and cloudSME (cloudsme.eu) are joining forces to leverage factory data with cloud-based engineering tools:
a) paving the way toward manufacturing analytics,
b) enriching the manufacturing engineering process with on-line data, and
c) simulating and optimizing the production process with the vision to support it in real-time.
The consolidated platform between CloudFlow and cloudSME with extended capabilities to process factory data is going to be accessed through a central interface, enabling the stakeholders to interact, and collaborate.
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IA - Innovation action
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80686 Munchen
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Participants (33)
W1B 2UW London
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70197 Stuttgart
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47057 Duisburg
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8005 Zurich
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
8048 Zurich
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
8808 Pfaffikon Sz
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22100 Lund
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7034 Trondheim
6928 Manno
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1111 Budapest
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NG7 2RD Nottingham
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1031 Budapest
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40126 Bologna
708 00 Ostrava Poruba
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46015 Valencia
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16129 Genova Ge
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
67663 Kaiserslautern
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4040 Linz
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33813 Oerlinghausen
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73100 Lecce
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72100 Cittadella Della Ricerca Brindisi
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02 017 Warszawa
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18000 Nis
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
60022 Castelfidardo
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190 00 Praha
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2830 Raufoss
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50018 Zaragoza
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50820 Zaragoza
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
1113 Budapest
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
8420 Zirc
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60035 Jesi
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81377 Munchen
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
7034 Trondheim
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