The document summarizes a technology-business networking event organized by Maria José Nuñez for the IMAGINE project. The IMAGINE project involves 7 research organizations, 3 large IT companies, and 5 living labs including one focused on the furniture sector. The project aims to develop methods for effective management of dynamic manufacturing networks and demonstrate their use across different industry domains. Key goals are improved collaboration, efficiency and flexibility for businesses.

1. 4th Technology-Business Networking Event
HABITAT, CONSTRUCTION, ARCHITECTURE & CERAMICS
Organizers:
Supporters:
MARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
IT Director
Lead of the Furniture Living Lab in IMAGINE Project
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market

2. 4th Technology-Business Networking Event
HABITAT, CONSTRUCTION, ARCHITECTURE & CERAMICS
Organizers:
Funding programme: IP Project, co-funded by the European Union under
the Virtual Factories and Enterprises theme (FoF-ICT-2011.7.3)
Supporters:
Budget:
11.397.399€ - % UE Co-funding: 7.991.000€
Length:
START 01/09/2011
END 30/08/2014 (extension 4M)
Website of the project: http://www.imagine-futurefactory.eu
MARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
IT Director
Lead of the Furniture Living Lab in IMAGINE Project
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market

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IMAGINE Consortium:
7 leading IT Research organisations
3 leading IT industry corporations
Organizers:
2 specialized SMEs
Supporters:
5 Living Labs
MARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
IT Director
Lead of the Furniture Living Lab in IMAGINE Project
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market

4. 4th Technology-Business Networking Event
HABITAT, CONSTRUCTION, ARCHITECTURE & CERAMICS
Background: Limited
point-to-point connections
between Business IT &
Organizers:
Factory Automation
 No global visibility
 No timely reaction to
problems & changes
Supporters: entry points for
 No easy
SMEs
Network
Management
Product
Lifecycle
IT
Support
From static & inflexible to
MARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
IT Director
Lead of the Furniture Living Lab in IMAGINE Project
dynamic on demand manufacturing networks
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market

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Objectives:
• A novel management method for effective and cost-efficient DMN
management
Organizers: in the form of the IMAGINE Management and Monitoring
Framework
• Development, pre-commercial demonstration and experimentation, and
strong validation via a 5 Living Labs approach:
Supporters:
Aerospace and Defense domain (EADS)
Multi-site single factory context (Fraunhofer IPA)
Furniture Manufacturing domain (AIDIMA)
Car Manufacturing domain (FIAT)
Engineering domain (UoW/WMCCM)
MARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
IT Director
Lead of the Furniture Living Lab in IMAGINE Project
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market

6. 4th Technology-Business Networking Event
HABITAT, CONSTRUCTION, ARCHITECTURE & CERAMICS
General Project Results:
• Recommendations and Best Practices for Solution-oriented Networked
Manufacturing
Organizers:
• Contribution to Standards
• A program of Education, Training and Specialist Courses in networked
manufacturing, the Benefits and Risks of DMNs, the need for to open up
data and support visibility across the networked manufacturing enterprise
• Spreading Excellence by disseminating knowledge and research results,
and close
Supporters: collaboration with relevant EU projects
• Commercial Exploitation of the IMAGINE Framework that will help SMEs to
compete in the post financial crisis environment
MARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
IT Director
Lead of the Furniture Living Lab in IMAGINE Project
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market

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Problems detected in Furniture sector:
Organizers:
Communications
Data Exchange
Supporters:
Multisite Furniture Cluster
Colaboratiive Production Networks
Specialization (optimisation)
Furniture Marketplace
Innovation
Search Partners
Visibility (new business
opportunities)
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Tracking & Monitoring
Productivity Improvement
Cost/Time reduction
MARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
IT Director
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Lead of the Furniture Living Lab in IMAGINE Project
Customer Oriented

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 Advantages of the project for Furniture Domain:
 Facilitate interoperability between different Legacy Systems
 A place to create synergies between the companies related to the
Organizers:
furniture sector
 Reducing time spent on creating new products and catalogs, increasing
innovation
 Helps decision making through simulations
 Supply Chain optimization
Supporters: control and supervision of the production due to the dynamic
 Greater
network monitoring
 Enhanced capacity to react to unexpected situations
 Increase in service quality to customers
MARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
IT Director
Lead of the Furniture Living Lab in IMAGINE Project
Diseños Tapizados Muñoz
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market

9. 4th Technology-Business Networking Event
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Main Result for AIDIMA: Furniture Living Lab «Dynamic
Manufacturing in Furniture Sector on-demand supply and production networks”
 Demonstrate and pilot the end-to-end management of a Dynamic
Organizers: Network which is created ad-hoc on the basis of a
Manufacturing
spontaneous business opportunity
 Facilitate the process of searching for new suppliers, adding a simulation
process, automating much of the communication and data exchange which
would previously require human interaction. Ability to provide order tracking
Supporters:
and monitoring transparently to the user in real time
MARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
IT Director
Lead of the Furniture Living Lab in IMAGINE Project
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market

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HABITAT, CONSTRUCTION, ARCHITECTURE & CERAMICS
 Key issue: Precise Definition of Use Cases. Ex.:
Potential DMN based in a
New Request
Organizers:
 Defining Production
Requirements
 Searching Partners
 DMN Simulation for the best
alternative
Req.Web Req. 2 Req. N
1 Services
Blueprint
Repositorie
s
Partn. 1 Partn. 1 Partn. 1
Partn. 2 Partn. 2 Partn. 2
Partn. 3 Partn. 3 Partn. 3
IMAGINE
Partn. N Partn. N Partn. N
Web Services
Production
requirements
Supporters:
Web
Services
Adapters
GdP
(Company A)
Web
Services
CATe
(Company N)
MARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
IT Director
Lead of the Furniture Living Lab in IMAGINE Project
Web
Services
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market
GdP
(Company B)

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 Another example:
Order Tracking and Monitoring
Organizers:
Blueprint
Repositorie
s
 Customer Order Confirmation
 Production Orders
Generation
 Exchanging Orders Tracking
Information
 Monitoring Processes
Supporters:
IMAGINE
Web Services
Web
Services
Adapters
GdP
(Company A)
Web
Services
GdP
(Company N)
MARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
IT Director
Lead of the Furniture Living Lab in IMAGINE Project
Web
Services
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market
GdP
(Company B)

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 Expected Impact:
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Large Industries
Organizers:
Agile value chain streamlining
New business models based
on sustainable value creation
Economy of scope and scale
Dynamically respond to global
competition
Improved efficiency,
Supporters:
adaptability and collaboration
Smart recourse management
within a supply network
SMEs
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Collaborative entrepreneurial
innovation
Favorable business
environment and access to
wider markets
Boost competitiveness
Joining of complementary skills
and capacities
Brand building and reputation
management – better visibility
Sharing of risks and recourses
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More dynamic business ecosystems
in their industry of influence
Better negotiation and consulting
power
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End-to-end management of
manufacturing networks
formulated for the product’s
lifecycle
Sustainability concerns
integrated within next
generation enterprise
Integrated information pipelines
across the supply networks
Bi-directoral technology and
knowledge exchange
IT Industry
Trade Associations
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Research
•
MARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
Opening up new market opportunities for ICT products
IT Director
and services
Lead of the Furnituremore social and sustainable enterprise
• ICT support for a Living Lab in IMAGINE Project

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Special Interest Group #1
IMAGINE Industry Community
 Get involved:
IMAGINE Partners’
Supply Chain Collaborators
IMAGINE Collaborators Network
(SMEs)
Organizers:
Join the IMAGINE
Specific Interest
Groups for
collaboration during
the different phases
Supporters:
of the project
IMAGINE
partners
Special Interest Group #2
IMAGINE Scientific Community
MARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
IT Director
Lead of the Furniture Living Lab in IMAGINE Project
General Stakeholders
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market

14. 4th Technology-Business Networking Event
HABITAT, CONSTRUCTION, ARCHITECTURE & CERAMICS
Organizers:
Thank you for your attention!
http://www.imagine-futurefactory.eu
info@imagine-futurefactory.eu
Supporters:
ImagineFF
Imagine Future Factory
ImagineFutureFactory
ImagineFutureFactory
MARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
IT Director
Lead of the Furniture Living Lab in IMAGINE Project
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market