The document summarizes a technology-business networking event focused on habitat, construction, architecture and ceramics. It describes an EU-funded project called TELL ME that aims to develop a methodology and IT platforms for continuous education and training of manufacturing workers. It highlights three pilot programs, including one focused on furniture manufacturing. The furniture pilot aims to address skills and training needs for furniture workers, especially those producing ship furniture. It identifies risks for the pilot programs, such as workers' apprehension about new technologies, and describes actions to prevent risks like preparing workers to view the technologies positively.

1. 4th Technology-Business Networking Event
HABITAT, CONSTRUCTION, ARCHITECTURE & CERAMICS
Organizers:
Supporters:
MARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
IT Director
Lead of the Furniture Pilot in TELL ME Project
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TELL ME - Technology Enhanced Learning Living Lab
for Manufacturing Environments
Organizers:
Funding programme: IP Project, co-funded by the European Union (FoFSupporters:
ICT-2011.8.1 Technology-enhanced learning)
Budget:
8.308.452€
- % UE Co-funding: 5.900.000€
Length:
START 01/11/2012
END 31/10/2015
MARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
IT Director
Lead of the Furniture Pilot in TELL ME Project
Website of the project: http://www.tellme-ip.eu
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TEL Research
TELL ME Consortium:
Organizers:
Factories of the Future Research
Supporters:
Coord.
Industrial SMEs Pilots
MARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
IT Director
Lead of the Furniture Pilot in TELL ME Project
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Background & Motivations:
• Needs from Manufacturing SMEs
Organizers:
• Human-centred manufacturing: humans at the centre of any production
process, as recommended by ActionPlanT 2020 vision;
• Service-oriented manufacturing: from product-driven marketing to servicedriven value
Supporters: co-creation in cross-sector SME value chains;
• Learning ecosystems: collecting & sharing experiences at individualcompany-ecosystem level by privacy-preserving distributed MM repositories;
• Living Labs of SMEs: from top-down technology-push innovation to marketMARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
pull innovation via bottom-up co-creation and inspirational environments;
IT Director
Lead of the Furniture Pilot in TELL ME Project
• Learning at the workplace: to fast, punctual, personalized updating &
creative use of skills, compatible with trends in self-regulated learning.
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Objectives:
• To develop a cross-enterprise methodology and IT platforms for
Organizers:
continuous education and training based on blending learning
methodologies like Precision Teaching (PT) with Lifelong Learning
and using Living Lab (LL) participative co-creation aspects
•Supporters:
To identify and measures the economic and non-economic
benefits at individual, organisation and business ecosystems levels
• To trial it at industrial manufacturing workplaces attended by
blue collar workers belonging to SMEs
MARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
IT Director
Lead of the Furniture Pilot in TELL ME Project
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market

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Workplan Overall Strategy
Project Workplan Strategy:
User &
System
Requirements
Organizers:
Fist prototype
Second prototype
Indepen - Integ dent
rated
Specifi cations
Indepen - Integ dent
rated
Proof
of
Concept
End Users & Industrial Community
Requirements
Evalution
Proof of concept process
• Project development will follow a user-centric and business-oriented
two-cycles
Supporters:approach.
• Each of the two cycles will deliver independent prototypes followed
by integrated versions
• Business-social and technical evaluation and feedback are
scheduled between the iteration cycles
MARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
IT
• During the take-up the platforms will be the Furniture Pilotthe TELLDirector
integrated in in TELL ME Project
ME
Lead of
system and used for real-life testing scenarios
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Expected Results:
Learning and Creativity Methodology
Organizers:
with multimedia examples allowing to facilitate the use of the Methodology
Generic Real-Virtual Worlds Interoperability Infrastructure using Internet of
Things (IoT)
Interconnection via Ambient Intelligence of manufacturing workplaces and
back-end enterprise systems
Supporters:
Multimedia Learning distributed Repository:
a source of knowledge and intelligent access services to interoperate
unstructured and semi-structured knowledge
Human-centric Industrial Workplaces:
Duplication of Tools and methodologies in all domains that consider work
related to Human Computer Interaction as well as HumanMARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
Machine
Interaction
IT Director
Experimentation in the three pilots (SMEs Lead of the Furniture Pilot in TELL ME Project
driven)
Evaluation of the possibility to transfer results to other domains
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 Pilots:
Organizers:
Supporters:
To implement the flow of competencies between
large multinational OEMs in an advanced domain
like helicopter manufacturing and small local
enterprises in charge of very practical and specific
tasks like maintenance and repair.
To instead deal with special treatments and
procedures to be followed when manufacturing
furniture to be brought onto ships, in particular
luxury ships and cruise ships, again using new
materials and adopting innovative production
techniques and processes.
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IT Director
To address the problem faced by blue collar workers in
Lead of the Furniture Pilot in TELL ME Project
the textile industry when they need to master more and
more demanding constraints and requirements regarding
quality inspection and make-up of the textile materials.
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Target companies addressed in Furniture Pilot:
All types
of furniture manufacturing companies, with a focus on ship furniture
manufacturing.
Organizers:
Supporters:
MARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
IT Director
Lead of the Furniture Pilot in TELL ME Project
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market

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HABITAT, CONSTRUCTION, ARCHITECTURE & CERAMICS
Organizers:
Supporters:
MARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
IT Director
Lead of the Furniture Pilot in TELL ME Project
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market

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HABITAT, CONSTRUCTION, ARCHITECTURE & CERAMICS
Organizers:
Supporters:
MARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
IT Director
Lead of the Furniture Pilot in TELL ME Project
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market

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 Potential Trial Risks:
• Organizers: furniture sector “technologically challenged”
Wood and
– Blue collar point of view:
1. Complexity using technology
2. Apprehension to technological changes
3. Fear
Supporters: to get substituted may impaired worker’s performance
4. Worker’s distrust to be controlled by technology
– Manager point of view:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Changes in the way of work is being performed
Cost
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IT Director
Difficulty introducing the system
Lead of the Furniture
Complexity in its use (interfere with daily activities) Pilot in TELL ME Project
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 Actions to prevent Risks:
• Organizers: such a modern technology at shopfloor
Introduce
1. mentally prepare and convince workers to accept this technology.
2. breaking the technological barrier needed for its use.
3. teaching workers how to use these technologies in order to
Supporters: and extract its whole potential.
maximize
Notice that many workers are reluctant to even be part of simple online courses mainly
because they are afraid of technologies.
FINAL GOAL:
MARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
IT Director
seeing these Furniture Pilot in TELL ME Project
technologies as allies
Lead of the
– companies need to start
instead of enemies for learning at workplace
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Organizers:
Supporters:
Thank you for your attention!
MARIA JOSÉ NUÑEZ
IT Director
Lead of the Furniture Pilot in TELL ME Project
Cerámica Innova 4: From research to market