Objective MULITIMAN aims to create multisite support systems for the multilevel activities of quality management in industry.The efficient and effective management of quality is acknowledged as being critical for European manufacturing industries. Without increasing resources, quality management must stay in line with ever-evolving market-driven product and process variants, whilst at the same time being dependent upon rare specialist and company-wide knowledge. Without the integration of expertise and knowledge existing within each single site, multi-site companies often duplicate quality efforts without gaining any global benefits from industrial quality activities on a local and multi-site basis through the application of advanced IT technology. At present the relatively small amount of systems which deal with quality management normally deal with only the local activities of individual industrial sites. Such systems tend to record and statistically treat quality data without exploiting the complementary existing knowledge and experience about quality issues in the factory. Therefore even at a single-site-local-event level, the incorporation of previously acquired know-how is not currently supported. The project will therefore develop support tools that will exploit such knowledge and reasoning between distributed sites and, at the same time, collect and collate data from them en masse. Another emerging quality issue dealt with by MULTIMAN is the evolution of quality standards, certification and documentation. Current thinking is leading more factories towards the introduction of "Total Quality" approaches with the exclusion of IT support. However, these two means are not mutually exclusive: in fact, through the application of advanced IT in MULTIMAN, human analysis, experimentation and new discoveries about quality will be easily collected, interpreted and exploited to automatically validate and efficiently support new future quality methods, standards and certification. Each software tool built by MULTIMAN will be integrated with the existing quality systems and factory environments on each site. This integration task is considered to be vital to the exploitability of MULTIMAN results, and as such will merit the development of specific tools. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware Programme(s) FP3-ESPRIT 3 - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of information technologies, 1990-1994 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator PIRELLI S.P.A. EU contribution No data Address Viale sarca 222 20126 Milano Italy See on map Total cost No data Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Ibk - System und Softwarehaus Gmbh Germany EU contribution No data Address Tegelbergstrasse 22 81545 Muenchen See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Intelligence Logicielle SA France EU contribution No data Address 2 avenue Gallieni 94253 Gentilly See on map Total cost No data MAITOKAARI LTD Finland EU contribution No data Address HERAJOKI, 116 11101 RITHIMAEKI See on map Total cost No data Tecnologia Energia Ambiente Materiali Srl Italy EU contribution No data Address Via del Buon Ricovero 10 00189 Roma See on map Total cost No data Université de Bordeaux I France EU contribution No data Address 351 cours de la Libération 33405 Talence See on map Total cost No data VALIO ENGINEERING LTD Finland EU contribution No data Address VALIMOTIE, 13 B B, 125 SF-00381 HELSINKI See on map Total cost No data
