The document summarizes the BIVEE project, which aims to promote innovation and production improvement in networked SMEs. The project develops an integrated software environment and advanced methods for boosting creativity, monitoring innovation outcomes, and creating shared knowledge repositories. It involves furniture manufacturers to evaluate current innovation processes, define user requirements, and test the BIVEE platform components. The project addresses issues identified in furniture networks like lack of mechanisms for reacting to supply problems and difficulties defining special component specifications.

1. 4th Technology-Business Networking Event
HABITAT, CONSTRUCTION, ARCHITECTURE & CERAMICS
Organizers:
Supporters:
Fernando Gigante
IT Department. Technical Researcher
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market
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Business Innovation and Virtual Enterprise Environment
Organizers:
Funding programme: FP7
Call: FP7-2011-NMP-ICT-FoF
Supporters:
Budget: 4.268.054 € - Requested EU Contribution 2.989.000 €
Length: START 01/09/2011
End 31/08/2014
Website of the project: http://bivee.eu/
Fernando Gigante
IT Department. Technical Researcher
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market
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Consortium:
– Co-ordinator:
ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA (E-IIS)
Organizers:
– Partners:
AIDIMA – TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE ON FURNITURE, WOOD, PACKAGING AND
RELATED INDUSTRIES
ATOS ORIGIN SOCIEDAD ANONIMA ESPANOLA (ATOS)
Supporters:
BIBA - BREMER INSTITUT FUER PRODUKTION UND LOGISTIK GMBH (BIBA)
BOC ASSET MANAGEMENT GMBH (BOC)
CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE (CNR)
ENGINEERING - INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA (E-IIS)
GENERAL IMPIANTI SRL (LOC)
SRDC YAZILIM ARASTIRMA VE GELISTIRME VE DANISMANLIK TICARET LIMITED
SIRKETI (SRDC)
Fernando Gigante
TELEMETRY ASSOCIATES LIMITED (TAL)
IT Department. Technical Researcher
UNIVERSITA POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE (UNIVPM)
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market
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4. 4th Technology-Business Networking Event
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BACKGROUND
To overcome the crisis, European enterprises need to deeply
change
Organizers:
European industrial system is characterized by SMEs
Continuous improvement and innovation
SMEs need to …
 rally in
Supporters: business ecosystems and operate as networked to
innovate and compete
 Manage the whole enterprise knowledge
 Have tools available to manage improvement and
innovation
Fernando Gigante
IT Department. Technical Researcher
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market
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ABSTRACT
Bivee addresses the lifecycle of ‘inventive enterprise’
 From the
Organizers: creativity to engineering
 From new businesses to production improvement
Bivee puts people in the center
providing a nurturing environment
Supporters:
Open thinking and free interaction
Is more important than formal
processes and stringent control
Fernando Gigante
IT Department. Technical Researcher
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market
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OBJECTIVES
Monitoring and assessment of value
production processes to identify innovation
Organizers:
needs
Monitoring of world innovation proposals,
solutions, etc. to identify innovation
Supporters:
opportunities
Simulation and data analytics to understand
pros and cons of innovation options
Fernando Gigante
IT Department. Technical Researcher
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market
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RESULTS
Integrated Software Environment
 Promoting and supporting the enterprise innovation and
Organizers:
the production improvement in networked SMEs
Advanced methods for:
 Boosting
Supporters: creativity and innovation with an open
approach – creation, nurturing and validation
 Monitoring the concrete outcomes in a collaborative
networked industrial setting
 Creating shared knowledge repositories - collective
intelligence
Fernando Gigante
 Means for measuring process innovation or Technical Researcher
improvement
IT Department.
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market
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MORE RESULTS
Catalyse ideas for production improvements and new
products (current inflexibility)
Organizers:
Bivee main components
 Mission Control Room, for monitoring of Virtual
Enterprises production activities
 Virtual
Supporters: Innovation Factory, for continuous innovation
promoting and management
Fernando Gigante
IT Department. Technical Researcher
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market
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ROLE OF AIDIMA IN BIVEE
Analysis of internal innovation processes
Involvement of manufacturers to evaluate the current state of
Organizers:
furniture companies
Analysis of production processes from associated furniture
manufacturers
Contribution to the definition of user requirements
Supporters:
Definition of specific pilot application cases
Provide metrics and indicators related to the pilot
Testing of the Bivee components
Analysis of the impact of the platform
Dissemination of the results achieved
Fernando Gigante
IT Department. Technical Researcher
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market
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PROBLEMS DETECTED IN FURNITURE NETWORKS
No mechanisms to react quickly to any supply problem
Organizers:
Difficulties and ambiguities arise when defining special
specifications of requested components or services
The production plans and processes are not shared with
other production partners
Supporters:
The production partners are not
able to propose improvements or
new innovative methods in the
current production networks
Fernando Gigante
IT Department. Technical Researcher
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market
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PROBLEMS DETECTED IN THE PROJECT PERFORMANCE
ERP systems are often underused in furniture SMEs
Organizers:
 KPI values should be maintained
Lack of “collaborative production” culture
 Time is also needed to introduce this approach in
the furniture sector
Supporters:
Most of the production managers are not accustomed to
use process modeling tools
Lack of information sharing in the business ecosystem
 Processes
 Indicators
Fernando Gigante
IT Department. Technical Researcher
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market
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OBTAINED EXPERIENCE
Important feedback retrieved from involved companies
Organizers:
Detection of problems in the current furniture
production networks
Detection of needs in the furniture production space
Supporters:
Introduction of collaborative approaches
 Innovation activities
 Production processes
Fernando Gigante
IT Department. Technical Researcher
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market
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Organizers:
http://bivee.eu
BIVEE
bivee.eu/feed
BIVEE Project
biveeproject
bivee@bivee.eu
Supporters:
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
Fernando Gigante
IT Department. Technical Researcher
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market
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