The document discusses the European Union's Factories of the Future partnership, which is a public-private partnership funded by Horizon 2020 to promote research and innovation in advanced manufacturing technologies. It notes that digitalization and ICT technologies are playing a key role in transforming manufacturing. The Factories of the Future partnership includes over 1,000 organizations, including many small and medium enterprises, working on 180 projects. One initiative within the partnership is I4MS, which aims to further promote Factories of the Future to SMEs and provide them with new technologies and resources. The partnership focuses on research priorities around various digital issues and technologies impacting manufacturing.

1. 2015Europe’s Advanced Manufacturing Partnership
ICT & Factories of the Future
Speaker:
Maurizio Gattiglio
Chairman

2. ICT & Factories of the Future
Manufacturing: Key to our Economy
 The important of manufacturing
is now well recognised by EU and
its member states and its
competitors
 Significant transformation
underway in advanced
manufacturing
 Digitlaisation & ICT-enabled
technologies are playing key
roles in this transformation
 Europe must prepare, enable &
respond to this
 ‘Factories of the Future’
partnership is a key EU
programme to achieve this

3. ICT Factories of the Future
Factories of the Future Partnership
 ‘Factories of the Future is Europe’s
advanced manufacturing partnership
 A public-private partnership funded by
Horizon 2020 (budget of €1.15 billion 2014-
2020)
 1st Launched under EU’s FP7 research
programme
 Jointly supported through European
Commission’s DG CONNECT & DG
Research and Innovation
 Research & innovation priorities identified
by industry/research community
 I4MS is an initiative within ‘Factories of the
Future’ partnership & supported through
‘Factories of the Future’ budget

4.  Over 1,000 organisations participating
 High involvement of SMEs: 200+
 Majority of projects feature demo activities
 180 Projects to date. 400+ results have been
reported on EFFRA Innovation Portal
 Close-to-the-market exploitation of project
results
 Project results also enhancing existing
products & processes
180+ PROJECTS
ICT Factories of the Future
Factories of the Future Partnership

5.  Factories of the Future already
has a high level of SME
participation.
 I4MS is an initiative within the
‘Factories of the Future’
partnership which aims to build on
this
Why?
 Furthering the promotion of
‘Factories of the Future’ to SMEs
 Bring new technologies, knowledge
& experience directly to SMEs
 Developing resources for SMEs to
complement existing ones (such as
EFFRA Innovation Portal)
 One-stop-shop for brokerage
amongst innovative SMEs
Factories of the Future: I4MS
ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs

6. Factories of the Future: I4MS
ICT Innovation for Manufacturing SMEs
 7 ‘Factories of the Future’ projects are participating in

7. Factories of the Future: I4MS
ICT in ‘Factories of the Future 2020’
 ‘Factories of the Future 2020 is the strategic
research agenda for the ‘Factories of the Future’
partnership in Horizon 2020
 The annual ‘Factories of the Future call topics
are based upon the research priorities identified
in the roadmap
 ICT is found throughout the roadmap reflecting
its ubiquitous nature in advanced manufacturing
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8. Factories of the Future
Digital Issues
Factories of the
Future
Big Data
Internet of Things
Cyber-Physical Systems Augmented Reality
Cloud
Complex Systems
 Selection of digital issues impacting on & being addressed
in ‘Factories of the Future’

9. Factories of the Future: I4MS
ICT in ‘Factories of the Future 2020’
Manufacturing for
custom-made parts
M2M Cloud connectivity
for future manufacturing
enterprises
Integrated high-
performance computing
Collaborative demand
& supply planning,
traceability & execution
‘Plug-and-play’
interfaces for factory
workers in dynamic
work environments
ICT solutions for
energy-efficient product
life cycles

10. ICT in Factories of the Future 2020
Manufacturing: Integrating & Enabling
Digital Tech
Examples of prioirites from strategic research domains – represents diversity of
‘digital’ in manufacturing
 Dynamic manufacturing execution environments
 Machine-to-machine cloud connectivity
 ‘Plug-&-play’ interfaces for factory workers in dynamic work environments
 Multi-enterprise role-based access control (MRBAC) in manufacturing enterprises
 Manufacturing intelligence for informed product design
 ICT Solutions for energy-efficient product life cycles & eco-usage
 Mobile store & applications for an agile and open supply network
 Manufacturing solutions for modular, updatable, reconfigurable & disassemblable
products

11. Who We Are
European Factories of the Future Research Association (EFFRA)
 Industry-led association representing
private side in the ‘Factories of the Future’
public-private partnership
 200 members from across Europe
 Members include large, small & medium
industrial enterprises, research organisations
& universities
 Full time secretariat: Connecting with
members, coordinating research agenda &
liaising with the European Commission
 Organise ‘Factories of the Future’-related
events, e.g. I4MS 2015

12. What we do
European Factories of the Future Research Association (EFFRA)
 Promote the partnership, participation & the
work of projects: Encourage participation
 Represents the private side in the
partnership & cooperate with the European
Commission
 Coordinate input from industry
 Supports members:
 One stop shop for information
 Monthly newsletter
 Enhanced access to Innovation Portal
 Member-only events & workshops
 Build & enhance links with national/regional
initiatives & clusters to enhance impact &
future activities

13. Factories of the Future
EFFRA Innovation Portal
www.effra.eu/portal
 Free to access
 Information on all FoF projects & consortia
 Connects projects
 Input from projects – enables self-analysis
 Over 400 results uploaded
 Maps projects & project results on the Factories of
the Future 2020 challenges, technologies &
application area
 Helps to avoid potential IPR conflict
 Hosts online brokerage for annual calls for project
proposals

14. Factories of the Future
Going Forward
 Continue to support & promote ‘Factories of
the Future’, & related, activities
 Expand & strengthen links to
national/regional initiatives – ensure
complimentary priorities & activities &
enhance impact
 Undertake revision process for ‘Factories of
the Future 2020’ (e.g. public consultations)
 Anticipate new trends, developments &
priorities looking beyond conclusion of
Horizon 2020:
 Increased digitalisation in & around
manufacturing
 ICT-enabled changes

15. Factories of the Future
Save the Date: Key Events
 ‘Factories of the Future’ Info Day – 16 October (Brussels)
 Presentation & explanation of next call topics & brokerage
 ICT 2015 – 20 to 22 October (Lisbon)
 Key conference on EU ICT, new tech & related research & innovation
 ManuFuture 2015 – 23 & 24 November (Luxembourg City)
 Major European advanced manufacturing innovation conference

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maurizio.gattiglio@primaindustrie.com
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